Complement in urochordates: Cloning and characterization of two C3-like genes in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis

Immunogenetics

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1055-1064

  Marino, Rita ^a,b   Kimura, Yuko ^a,b   De Santis, Rosaria ^a,b   Lambris, John D ^a,b   Pinto, Maria ^a,b  

^a STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascidians; C3; Complement evolution; Thioester

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; CIC31 GENE; CIC32 GENE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; ECHINODERM; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; UROCHORDATA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPLEMENT C3; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; ECHINODERMATA; HALOCYNTHIA; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; INVERTEBRATA; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 0036205799     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-001-0421-9     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Human C3: Evidence for the liver as the primary site of synthesis
2. Sea urchin coelomocytes specifically express a homologue of the complement component C3
3. Purification and characterization of a humoral opsonin, with specificity for D-galactose, in the colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri
4. Structural superfamilies of the complement system
5. Synthetic peptides as antigens: Pitfalls of conjugation methods
6. Expression of SpC3, the sea urchin complement component, in response to lipopolysaccharide
7. Particle recognition by haemocytes from the colonial ascidian Botrylloides leachi: Evidence that the B. leachi HA-2 agglutinin is opsonic
8. Ascidian haemocytes and defence reactions
9. A technique for radiolabeling DNA restriction endonuclease fragments to high specific activity
10. SpC3, the complement homologue from the purple sea urchin. Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, is expressed in two subpopulations of the phagocytic coelomocytes
11. Structural requirements for thioester bond formation in human complement component C3: Reassessment of the role of thioester bond integrity on the conformation of C3
12. Ancient origin of the complement lectin pathway revealed by molecular cloning of mannan binding protein-associated serine protease from a urochordate, the Japanese ascidian, Halocynthia roretzi
13. The chromosomal duplication model of the major histocompatibility complex
14. Purification and characterization of a humoral opsonin from the solitary urochordate Styela clava
15. Molecular cloning and linkage analysis of complement C3 and C4 genes of the Japanese medaka fish
16. Integumentary allograft versus autograft reactions in Ciona intestinalis: A protochordate species of solitary tunicate
17. The multifunctional role of C3, the third component of complement
18. The internal thioester and the covalent binding properties of the complement proteins C3 and C4
19. Cloning and characterization of integrin α subunits from the solitary ascidian, Halocynthia roretzi
20. X-ray crystal structure of C3d: A C3 fragment and ligand for complement receptor 2
21. Identification of prokaryotic and eukaryotic signal peptides and prediction of their cleavage sites
22. Evolution of the complement system
23. Complete complementary DNA sequence of the third component of complement of lamprey. Implication for the evolution of thioester containing proteins
24. Opsonic complement component C3 in the solitary ascidian. Halocynthia roretzi
25. Humoral opsonins of the tunicate, Pyura stolonifera
26. Protochordate leucocytes: A review
27. The neighbor-joining method: A new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees
28. A rapid method for determining sequences in DNA by primed synthesis with DNA polymerase
29. Kinetic analysis of the interactions of complement receptor 2 (CR2, CD21) with its ligands C3d, iC3b and the Epstein Barr virus glycoprotein gp350/220
30. Retinoic acid induces stage-specific antero-posterior transformation of rostral central nervous system
31. Coelomocytes express SpBf, a homologue of factor B, the second component in the sea urchin complement system
32. Complement and innate immunity
33. 2-macroglobulin and complement components C3 and C4
34. Complement diversity: A mechanism for generating immune diversity
35. CLUSTAL W: Improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice
36. Cloning and structure of three trout C3 molecules: A plausible explanation for their functional diversity