Heavy-chain variable regions in carcharhine sharks: Development of a comprehensive model for the evolution of V(H) domains among the gnathanstomes

Immunology and Cell Biology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 357-364

  Shen, Shan Xiang ^a   Bernstein, Ralph M ^a   Schluter, Samuel F ^a   Marchalonis, John J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Heavy chains; Immunoglobulin genes; Molecular evolution; Variable regions

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; NONHUMAN; SHARK;

CARCHARHINUS LEUCAS; CARCHARHINUS PLUMBEUS; CHONDRICHTHYES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029780641     PISSN: 08189641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/icb.1996.63     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Moore KS, Wehrli S, Roder H et al. Squalamine: an aminosterol antibiotic from the shark. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 1993; 90: 1354-8.
2. Makela O, Litman GW. Lack of heterogeneity in antihapten antibodies of a phylogenetically primitive shark. Nature 1980; 287: 639-40.
3. Du Pasquier L. Evolution of the immune system. In: Paul WE (ed.) Fundamental Immunology. New York: Raven Press, 1993; 199-234.
4. Marchalonis J, Edelman GM. Phylogenetic origins of antibody structure. I. Multichain structure of immunoglobulins in the smooth dogfish (Mustelus canis). J Exp. Med. 1965; 122: 601-18.
5. Marchalonis JJ. Immunity in Evolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977.
6. Hohman VS, Schluter SF, Marchalonis JJ. Complete sequence of a cDNA clone specifying sandbar shark immunoglobulin light chain: gene organization and implications for the evolution of light chains. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 1992; 89: 276-80.
7. Greenberg AS, Steiner L, Kasahara M, Flajnik MF. Isolation of a shark immunoglobulin light chain cDNA clone encoding a protein resembling mammalian kappa light chains: implications for the evolution of light chains. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 1993; 90: 10 603-7.
8. Rast JP, Anderson MK, Ota T et al. Immunoglobulin light chain class multiplicity and alternative organizational forms in early vertebrate phylogeny. Immunogenetics 1994; 40: 83-99.
9. Rast JP, Haire RN, Litman RT, Pross S, Litman GW. Identification and characterization of T-cell antigen receptor-related genes in phylogenetically diverse vertebrate species. Immunogenetics 1995; 42: 204-12.
10. Bernstein RM, Schluter SF, Shen S, Marchalonis JJ. A new high molecular weight immunoglobulin class from the carcharhine shark: Implications for the properties of the primordial immunoglobulin. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 1996; 93: 3289-93.
11. Greenberg AS, Avila D, Hughes M, Hughes A, McKinney EC, Flajnik MF. A new antigen receptor gene family that undergoes rearrangement and extensive somatic diversification in sharks. Nature 1995; 374: 168-73.
12. Marchalonis JJ, Hohman VS, Schluter SF. Antibodies of sharks; Novel methods of generation of diversity. The Immunologist 1993; 1: 115-20.
13. Hohman VS, Schluter SF, Marchalonis JJ. Diversity of Ig light chain clusters in the sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus). J. Immunol. 1995; 155: 3922-8.
14. Compagno LJV. Sharks of the Order Carcharhiniformes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988.
15. Chothia C, Boswell DR, Lesk AM. The outline structure of the T-cell alpha beta receptor. EMBO J. 1988; 7: 3745-55.
16. Ausubel FM, Brant R, Kingston RE et al. (eds) Current Protocols in Molecular Biology. New York: Greene Publishing Associates and Wiley-Interscience, 1996.
17. Sambrook J, Fritsch EF, Maniatis T (eds) Molecular Cloning. A Laboratory Manual. 2nd edn. New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1989.
18. Altschul SF, Gish W, Miller W, Myers EW, Lipman DJ. Basic local alignment search tool. J. Mol. Biol. 1990; 215: 403-10.
19. Thompson JD, Higgins DG, Gibson TJ. CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Res. 1994; 22: 4673-80.
20. Saitou N, Nei M. The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Mol. Biol. Evol. 1987; 4: 406-25.
21. Felsenstein J. PHYLIP (Phylogeny Inference Package) version 3.572c. Distributed by the author. Department of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle. 1996.
22. Kabat EA, Wu TT, Perry HM, Gottesman KS, Foeller C. Sequences of proteins of immunological interest. Washington, DC: USDHHS, Public Health Service, National Institute of Health, 1991.
23. Hohman VS, Schuchman DB, Schluter SF, Marchalonis JJ. Genomic clone for sandbar shark lambda light chain: generation of diversity in the absence of gene rearrangement. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 1993; 90: 9882-6.
24. Brodeur PH, Riblet R. The immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region (Igh-V) locus in the mouse. I. One hundred Igh-V genes comprise seven families of homologous genes. Eur. J. Immunol. 1984; 14: 922-30.
25. Andersson E. The evolutionary study of the immunoglobulin heavy chain genes of a bony fish, rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Dissertation, Umeå University, Sweden, 1995.
26. Andersson E, Matsunaga T. Evolution of immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region genes: a VH family can last for 150-200 million years or longer. Immunogenetics 1995; 41: 18-28.
27. Anderson M, Amemiya C, Luer C et al. Complete genomic sequence and patterns of transcription of a member of an unusual family of closely related, chromosomally dispersed Ig gene clusters in Raja. Int. Immunol. 1994; 6: 1661-70.
28. Marchalonis JJ, Schluter SF. On the relevance of invertebrate recognition and defence mechanisms to the emergence of the immune response of vertebrates. Scand. J. Immunol. 1990; 32: 13-20.
29. Kabat EA. The paucity of species-specific amino acid residues in the variable regions of human and mouse Bence Jones proteins and its evolutionary and genetic implications. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 1967; 57: 1345-9.
30. Kirkham PM, Schroeder HW Jr. Antibody structure and the evolution of immunoglobulin V gene segments. Semin. Immunol. 1994; 6: 347-60.
31. Hein WR. Structural and functional evolution of the extra-cellular regions of T cell receptors. Semin. Immunol. 1994; 6: 361-72.
32. Reidl LS, Kinoshita CM, Steiner LA. Wild mice express an Ig V lambda gene that differs from any V lambda in BALB/c but resembles a human V lambda subgroup. J. Immunol. 1992; 149: 471-80.
33. Klein J. Are invertebrates capable of anticipatory immune responses? Scand. J. Immunol. 1989; 29: 499-505.
34. Marchalonis JJ, Schluter SF. Origins of immunoglobulins and immune recognition molecules. BioScience 1990; 40: 758-68.