Evolution of MHC class I loci in marsupials: Characterization of sequences from Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1119-1127

  Houlden, Bronwyn A ^a,b   Greville, Warwick D ^a,c   Sherwin, William B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Taronga Zoo   (Australia)

^c Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

koala; major histocompatibility complex; marsupial; MHC class I; MHC genes; Phascolarctos cinereus

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MARSUPIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EUTHERIA; MACROPUS RUFOGRISEUS; METATHERIA; PHASCOLARCTOS CINEREUS;

EID: 0029992560     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025674     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. ARNETT, K. L., and P. PARHAM. 1995. HLA class I nucleotide sequences, 1995. Tissue Antigens 45:217-257.
2. BJORKMAN, P. J., and P. PARHAM. 1990. Structure, function and diversity of class I major histocompatibility complex molecules. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 59:253-288.
3. BJORKMAN, P. J., M. A. SAPER, B. SAMRAOUI, W. S. BENNETT, J. L. STROMINGER, and D. C. WILEY. 1987. Structure of the human class I histocompatibility antigen, HLA-A2. Nature 329:506-512.
4. CHOMCZYNSKI, P., and N. SACCHI. 1987. Single-step method of RNA isolation by acid guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform extraction. Anal. Biochem. 162:156-159.
5. ELLEGREN, H., G. HARTMEN, M. JOHANSSON, and L. ANDERSSON. 1993. Major histocompatibility complex monomorphism and low levels of DNA fingerprinting variability in a reintroduced and rapidly expanding population of beavers. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90:8150-8153.
6. ELLIS, S. A., A. J. MARTIN, and W. I. MORRISON. 1995. At least four MHC class I genes are transcribed in the horse: phylogenetic analysis suggests an unusual evolutionary history for the MHC in this species. Eur. J. Immunogen. 22: 249-260.
7. ENNIS, P. D., J. ZEMMOUR, R. D. SALTER, and P. PARHAM. 1990. Rapid cloning of HLA-A,B cDNA by using the polymerase chain reaction: frequency and nature of errors produced in amplification. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87: 2833-2837.
8. FELSENSTEIN, J. 1988. Phylogenies from molecular sequences: inferences and reliability. Annu. Rev. Genet. 22:521-565.
9. FIGUEROA, F., E. GUNTHER, and J. KLEIN. 1988. MHC polymorphism pre-dating speciation. Nature 335:265-267.
10. Fox, D. H., and D. T. ROWLANDS JR. 1976. Proliferative reactivity of opossum peripheral blood leukocytes to allogeneic cells, mitogens. and specific antigens. Transplantation 21: 164-168.
11. GUILLEMOT, F., A. BILLAULT, O. POURQUISÉ, G. BÉHAR, A.-M. CHAUSSÉ, R. ZOOROB, G. KREBICH, and C. AUFFRAY. 1988 A molecular map of the chicken major histocompatibility complex: the class II β genes are closely linked to the class I genes and the nucleolar organizer. EMBO J. 7:2775-2785.
12. HILL, A. V. S., C. E. M. ALLSOPP, D. KWIATKOWSKI, N. M. ANSTEY, P. T. TWUMASI, P. A. ROWE, S. BENNETT, D. BREWSTER, A. J. MCMICHAEL, and B. M. GREENWOOD. 1991. Common West African HLA antigens are associated with protection from severe malaria. Nature 352:595-600.
13. HOPE, R., S. COOPER, and B. WAINWRIGHT. 1990. Globin macromolecular sequences in marsupials and monotremes. Pp. 289-313 in J. A. M. GRAVES, R. M. HOPE, and D. W. COOPER, eds. Mammals from pouches and eggs: genetics, breeding and evolution of marsupials and monotremes. CSIRO Press. Melbourne.
14. HOULDEN, B. A., P. ENGLAND, and W. B. SHERWIN. 1996. Paternity exclusion in koalas using hypervariable microsatellites. J. Hered. 87:149-152.
15. HUGHES, A. L. 1991. Independent gene duplications, not concerted evolution, explain relationships among class I MHC genes of murine rodents. Immunogenetics 33:367-373.
16. HUGHES, A.L., and M. NEI. 1988. Patterns of nucleotide substitution at major histocompatibility complex class I loci reveals overdominant selection. Nature 335:167-170.
17. _, 1989a. Nucleotide substitution at major histocompatibility complex class II loci: evidence for overdominant selection. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86:958-962.
18. _, 1989b. Evolution of the major histocompatibility complex: independent origin of nonclassical class I genes in different groups of mammals. Mol. Biol. Evol. 6:559-579.
19. IMANISHI, T., T. AKAZA, A. KIMURA, K. TOKUNAGA, and T. GOJOBORI. 1992. Allele and haplotype frequencies for HLA and complement loci in various ethnic groups. P. 1065 in K. TSUJI, M. AIZAWA and T. SASAZUKI, eds. HLA 1991: proceedings of the eleventh international histocompatibility workshop and conference. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
20. INFANTE, A. J., N. K. SAMPLES, D. A. CROIX, T. S. REDDING, J. L. VANDEBERG, and W. H. STONE. 1991. Cellular immune response of a marsupial, Monodelphis domestica. Dev. Comp. Immunol. 15:189-199.
21. JAKOBSEN, I. B., and S. EASTEAL. 1996. A program for calculating and displaying compatibility matrices as an aid in determining reticulate evolution in molecular sequences. CABIOS (in press).
22. JUKES, T. H. and C. R. CANTOR. 1969. Evolution of protein molecules. Pp. 21-32 in H. N. MUNRO, ed. Mammalian protein metabolism. Academic Press. New York.
23. KLEIN, J. 1986. Natural history of the major histocompatibility complex. Wiley. New York.
24. _, 1987. Origin of major histocompatibility complex polymorphism: the trans-species hypothesis. Hum. Immunol. 19:155-162.
25. KUMAR, S., K. TAMURA, and M. NEI. 1993. MEGA: molecular evolutionary genetic analysis. Version 1.0. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa.
26. LAWLOR, D. A., F. E. WARD, P. D. ENNIS, P. A. JACKSON, and P. PARHAM. 1988. HLA-A and B polymorphism predate the divergence of humans and chimpanzees. Nature 335:268-271.
27. MADRIGAL, J. A., M. P. BELICH, W. H. HILDERBRAND et al. (11 co-authors). 1992. Distinctive HLA-A, B antigens of black populations formed by interallelic conversion. J. Immunol. 149:3411-3415.
28. MAYER, W. E., M. JONKER, D. KLEIN, P. IVANYI, G. VAN SEVENTER, and J. KLEIN. 1988. Nucleotide sequences of chimpanzee MHC class I alleles: evidence for trans-species mode of evolution. EMBO J. 7:2765-2774.
29. MAYER, W. E., N. S. WILLIAMS, C. O'HUIGIN, V. VINCEK, Z. ZALESA-RUTCZYNSA, and J. KLEIN. 1993. Class I major histocompatibility complex genes of the red-necked wallaby, Macropus rufogriseus. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 2:23-30.
30. bm12 gene is evidence for genetic exchange between mouse immune response genes. Nature 308:551-553.
31. MCKENZIE, L. M., and D. W. COOPER. 1994. Low restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) variation in the major histocompatibility complex class II beta-chain in the tammar, wallaby. Reprod. Fertil. and Dev. 6:721-726.
32. NEI, M., and A. L. HUGHES. 1991. Polymorphism and evolution of the major histocompatibility complex loci in mammals. Pp. 222-270 in R. K. SELANDER, A. G. CLARK, and T. S. WHITTAM, eds. Evolution at the molecular level. Sinauer, Sunderland, Mass.
33. NIZETIC, D., F. FIGUEROA, E. NEVO, and J. KLEIN. 1985. Major histocompatibility complex of the mole-rat. II. Restriction fragment polymorphism. Immunogenetics 22:55-67.
34. O'BRIEN, S. J., E. ROELKE, L. MARKER, A. NEWMAN, C. A. WINKLERA, D. MELTZER, L. COLLY, J. F. EVERMANN, M. BUSH, and D. E. WILDT. 1985. Genetic basis for species vulnerability in the cheetah. Science 227:1428-1434.
35. POTTS, W. K., C. J. MANNING, and E. K. WAKELAND. 1991. Mating patterns in seminatural populations of mice influenced by MHC genotype. Nature 352:619-621.
36. ROBINSON, M. A., and T. J. KINDT. 1989. Major histocompatibility complex antigens and genes. Pp. 489-539 in W. E. PAUL, ed. Fundamental immunology. 2nd edition. Raven Press, New York.
37. ROWLANDS, D. T. JR. 1976. Immmunity in prototherian and metatherian mammals. Pp. 376-389 in J. J. MARCHALONIS, ed. Comparative immunology. Blackwell Scientific, London.
38. SAITOU, N., and M. NEI. 1987. The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Mol. Biol. Evol. 4:406-425.
39. SAMBROOK, J., E. F. FRITSCH, and T. MANIATIS. 1989. Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual. 2nd edition. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
40. SANGER, F., S. NIKLEN, and A. R. COULSON. 1977. DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 74:5463-5467.
41. SCHNEIDER, S., V. VINCEK, H. TICHY, F. FIGUERO, and J. KLEIN. 1991. MHC class II genes of a marsupial, the red-necked wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus): identification of new gene families. Mol. Biol. Evol. 8:753-766.
42. SLADE, R. W., P. T. HALE, D. I. FRANCIS, J. A. GRAVES, and R. A. STURM. 1994. The marsupial MHC: the tammar wallaby, Macropus eugenii, contains an expressed DNA-like gene on chromosome 1. J. Mol. Biol. 38:496-505.
43. SLADE, R. W., and W. E. MAYER. 1995. The expressed class II α-chain genes of the marsupial major histocompatibility complex belong to eutherian mammal gene families. Mol. Biol. Evol. 12:441-450.
44. SOOD, A. K., D. PEREIRA, and S. M. WEISSMAN. 1981. Isolation and partial nucleotide sequence of a cDNA clone for human histocompatibility antigen HLA-B by use of an oligonucleotide primer. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 78:616-620.
45. SPRINGER, M. S., and J. A. W KIRSCH. 1991. DNA hybridization, the compression effect, and the radiation of diprotodontian maruspials. Syst. Zool. 40:131-151.
46. STONE, W. H., N. K. SAMPLES, E. KRAIG, and J. L. VANDEBERG. 1987. Definition of class I antigens of the MHC of a marsupial (Monodelphis domestica). Arch. Zootecnica 36: 219-235.
47. TAYLOR, A., J. A. M. GRAVES, N. D. MURRAY, and W. B. SHERWIN. 1991. Conservation genetics of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) II. Limited variability in minisatellite DNA sequences. Biochem. Genet. 29:355-363.
48. WATKINS, D. I., T. L. GARBER, Z. W. CHEN, G. TOUATLY, A. L. HUGHES, and N. L. LETVIN. 1991. Unusually limited nucleotide sequence variation of the expressed major histocompatibility complex class I genes of a new world primate species (Saguinus oedipus). Immunogenetics 33:79-89.
49. WATKINS, D. I., F. S. HODI, and N. L. LETVIN. 1988. A primate species with limited major histocompatibility complex class I polymorphism. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 85:7714-7718.
50. WILKINSON, R., I. KOTLARSKI, and M. BARTON. 1992. Koala lymphoid cells: analysis of antigen-specific responses. Vet. Immunol. Immunopathol. 33:237-247.
51. WINOTO, A., M. STEINMETZ, and L. HOOD. 1983. Genetic mapping in the major histocompatibility complex by restriction enzyme site polymorphism: most mouse class I genes map to the TIa complex. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 80:3425-3429.
52. YADAV, M., H. WARLNG, and N. F. STANLEY. 1974. Effect of thymectomy on skin allograft survival in a macropod marsupial Selonix brachyusus. Transplantation 17:30-36.
53. YUHKI, N., and S. J. O'BRIEN. 1988. Molecular characterisation and genetic mapping of class I and class II MHC genes of the domestic cat. Immunogenetics 27:414-425.
54. _, 1990. DNA variation of the mammalian major histocompatibility complex reflects genomic diversity and population history. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87:836-840.