The fate of duplicated major histocompatibility complex class la genes in a dodecaploid amphibian, Xenopus ruwenzoriensis

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1593-1604

  Sammut, Bénédicte ^a,b   Marcuz, Anne ^a   Du Pasquier, Louis ^a  

^a BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Duplication; Evolution; Homogenization; Immune system; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1A; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ALLOPOLYPLOIDY; AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENUS; HAPLOTYPE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; POLYPLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, MHC CLASS I; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; XENOPUS;

EID: 0036087682     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(200206)32:6<1593::AID-IMMU1593>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Natural history of the major histocompatibility complex
2. The major histocompatibility complex
3. Map of the human MHC
4. Origin and evolution of the vertebrate immune system
5. Insight into the primordial MHC from studies in ectothermic vertebrates
6. Evolution of the major histocompatibility complex: A current overview
7. The chromosomal duplication model of the major histocompatibility complex
8. Genome dynamics of the major histocompatibility complex: Insights from genome paralogy
9. What do the paralogous regions in the genome tell us about the origin of the adaptive immune system?
10. The MHC big bang
11. Genetics of polyploid Xenopus
12. The extant species
13. The genetic control of histocompatibility reactions in natural and laboratory-made polyploid individuals of the clawed toad Xenopus
14. Isolation of a classical MHC class I cDNA from an amphibian. Evidence for only one class I locus in the Xenopus MHC
15. A novel type of class I gene organization in vertebrates: A large family of non-MHC-linked class I genes is expressed at the RNA level in the amphibian Xenopus
16. Polyploidy and cytogenetic variation in frogs of the genus Xenopus
17. Nomenclature for the major histocompatibility complexes of different species: A proposal
18. Class I major histocompatibility complex genes of the red-necked Wallaby, Macropus rufogriseus
19. Two ancient allelic lineages at the single classical class I locus in the Xenopus MHC
20. Trans-species polymorphism of the major histocompatibility complex-encoded proteasome subunit LMP7 in an amphibian genus, Xenopus
21. Diversity and diversification of HLA-A,B,C alleles
22. Exon shuffling in vivo can generate novel HLA class I molecules
23. Structure of the human class I histocompatibility antigen, HLA-A2
24. The foreign antigen binding site and T cell recognition regions of class I histocompatibility antigens
25. Evolutionary conservation of MHC class I and class II molecules - Different yet the same
26. Pattern of nucleotide substitution at major histocompatibility complex class I loci reveals overdominant selection
27. Geographical distribution and ecology
28. Mitochondrial RDNA phylogeny in Xenopus
29. Natural selection at major histocompatibility complex loci of vertebrates
30. Evolution of class I MHC genes and proteins: From natural selection to thymic selection
31. High determinant density may explain the phenomenon of alloreactivity
32. A study of variability in the MHC class II beta 1 and class I alpha 2 domain exons of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L
33. Modes of salmonid MHC class I and II evolution differ from the primate paradigm
34. A major histocompatibility complex in the toad Xenopus laevis (Daudin)
35. Methods used to study the immune system of Xenopus (Amphibian, Anura)
36. Isolation of MHC class I cDNAs from the axolotl Ambystoma mexicanum
37. Rapid production of full-length CdNAs from rare transcripts: Amplification using a single gene-specific oligonucleotide primer
38. The CLUSTAL-X windows interface: Flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools
39. Refined structure of the human histocompatibility antigen HLA-A2 at 2.6 A resolution
40. HLA-A2 antigen phosphorylation in vitro by cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. Sites of phosphorylation and segmentation in class i major histocompatibility complex gene structure
41. Methods for computing the standard errors of branching points in an evolutionary tree and their application to molecular data from humans and apes
42. Variance and covariances of the numbers of synonymous and nonsynonymous substitutions per site