A complement component C3a-like peptide stimulates chemotaxis by hemocytes from an invertebrate chordate - The tunicate, Pyura stolonifera

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 377-386

  Raftos, David A ^a   Robbins, Jennifer ^a   Newton, Rebecca A ^a,b   Nair, Sham V ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anaphylatoxin; Chemotaxis; Comparative immunology evolution; Complement; Inflammation

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3A; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; ZYMOSAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BLOOD CELL; CELL MIGRATION; CHEMOTAXIS; CHORDATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEL FILTRATION; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

INVERTEBRATA; PYURA; PYURA STOLONIFERA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037307134     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(02)00287-8     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Aebersold R.H., Leavitt J., Saavedra R.A., Hood L.E., Kent S.B.H. Internal amino acid sequence analysis of proteins separated by one or two dimensional gel electrophoresis after in situ digestion on nitrocellulose. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 84:1987;6970-6974.
2. Al-Sharif W.Z., Sunyer J.O., Lambris J.D., Smith L.C. Sea urchin coelomocytes specifically express a homologue of the complement component C3. J. Immunol. 160:1998;2983-2997.
3. Blum H., Beier H., Gross H.J. Improved staining of plant proteins, RNA and DNA in polyacrylamide gels. Electrophoresis. 8:1987;93-99.
4. Boyden S. The chemotactic effect of mixtures of antibody and antigen on polymorphic leucocytes. J. Exp. Med. 115:1962;453-465.
5. Clow L., Gross P.S., Raftos D.A., Smith L.C. Sea urchin SpC3, a homologue of the complement component C3, is expressed in two subsets of phagocytes and functions as an opsonin. Dev. Comp. Immunol. 24:2000a;S23.
6. Clow L., Gross P.S., Shih C.S., Smith L.C. Expression of SpC3, the sea urchin complement component, in response to lipopolysaccharide. Immunogenetics. 51:2000b;1021-1033.
7. Daffern P., Pfiefer P.H., Ember J.A., Hugli T.E. C3a is a chemotaxin for human eosinophils but not for neutrophils: C3a stimulation of neutrophils is secondary to eosinophilic activation. J. Exp. Med. 181:1995;2119.
8. De Bruijn M.H.L., Fey G.L. Human complement component C3: cDNA coding sequence and derived primary structure. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 82:1985;708-712.
9. Ember J.A., Hugli T.E. Complement factors and their receptors. Immunopharmacology. 38:1997;3-15.
10. Gross P.L., Clow L.A., Smith L.C. SpC3, the complement homologue from the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, is expressed in two subpopulations of the phagocytic coelomocytes. Immunogenetics. 51:2000;1034-1044.
11. Gross P.L., Al-Sharif W.Z., Clow L.A., Smith L.C. Echinoderm immunity and the evolution of the complement system. Dev. Comp. Immunol. 23:1999;429-442.
12. Hartmann K., Henz B., Kruger-Krasagakes S., et al. C3a and C5a stimulate chemotaxis of human mast cells. Blood. 89:1997;2863.
13. Hugli T.E. Human anaphylatoxin (C3a) from the third component of complement. Primary structure. J. Biol. Chem. 250:1975;8293-8301.
14. Ji X., Azumi K., Sasaki M., Nonaka M. 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. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 94:1997;6340-6345.
15. Klein J. Are invertebrates capable of anticipatory immune responses? Scand. J. Immunol. 29:1989;499-505.
16. Klomp J.P.G., Velde A.A.T., Figdor C.G. Rapid densitometric determination of cell migration in a microchemotaxis chamber. J. Immunol. Methods. 118:1989;47-52.
17. Kyse-Andersen J. Electroblotting of multiple gels: a simple apparatus without buffer tank for rapid transfer of protein from polyacrylamide to nitrocellulose. J. Biochem. Biophys. Methods. 10:1984;203-209.
18. Marino R., Kimura Y., De Santis R., Lambris J.D., Pinto M.R. Complement in urochordates: cloning and characterization of two C3-like genes in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis. Immunogenetics. 53:2002;1055-1064.
19. Medzhitov R., Janeway C.A. Innate immunity: the virtues of a nonclonal system of recognition. Cell. 91:1997;295-298.
20. Metchnikoff E. Lectures on the Comparative Pathology of Inflammation. 1892;Dover Publication, New York.
21. Nair S., Pearce S., Green P.L., Mahajan D., Newton R.A., Raftos D.A. A collectin-like protein from tunicates. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. B. 125:2000;279-289.
22. Nair, S.V., Raftos, D.A. A collectin-mediated complement activation pathway in the tunicate, Styela plicata. Dev. Comp. Immunol., submitted for publication.
23. Newton R.A., Raftos D.A., Raison R.L., Geczy C.L. Chemotactic responses of hagfish (Vertebrata, Agnatha) leukocytes. Dev. Comp. Immunol. 18:1994;295-303.
24. Nilsson G., Johnell M., Hammer C.H., et al. C3a and C5a are chemotaxins for human mast cells and act through distinctive receptors via a pertussis toxin-sensitive signal transduction pathway. J. Immunol. 157:1996;1693.
25. Nonaka M., Azumi K. Opsonic complement system of the solitary ascidian, Halocynthia roretzi. Dev. Comp. Immunol. 23:1999;421.
26. Nonaka M., Azumi K., Ji X., et al. Opsonic complement component C3 in the solitary ascidian, Halocynthia roretzi. J. Immunol. 162:1999;387-391.
27. Parrinello N., Patricolo E. Inflammatory-like reaction in the tunic of Ciona intestinalis (Tunicata), II: capsule formation. Biol. Bull. 167:1984;238-250.
28. Parrinello N., Patricolo E., Canicatti C. Tunicate immunobiology 1. Tunic reaction of Ciona intestinalis L. to erythrocyte injection. Biol. Zool. 44:1977;373-381.
29. Parrinello N., Patricolo E., Canicatti C. Inflammatory reaction in the tunic of Ciona intestinalis (Tunicata). I. Encapsulation and tissue injury. Biol. Bull. 167:1984;229-237.
30. Raftos D., Nair S.V., Robbins J., Newton R.A., Peters R. A complement component C3-like protein from the tunicate, Styela plicata. Dev. Comp. Immunol. 26:2002;307-312.
31. Raftos D.A., Cooper E.L. In vitro culture of tissues from the solitary tunicate, Styela clava. In Vitro. 26:1990;962-970.
32. Raftos D.A., Green P.G., Mahajan D., et al. Collagenous lectins in tunicates and the proteolytic activation of complement. Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 484:2001;229-236.
33. Raftos D.A., Raison R.L. Out of the primordial slime: evolution and the immune system. Today's Life Sci. 14:1992;16-20.
34. Schagger H., von Jagow G. Tricine - sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis for the separation of proteins in the range from 1 to 100 kDa. Anal. Biochem. 166:1987;368-379.
35. Sekine H., Kenzo K., Azumi K., et al. An ancient lectin-dependent complement system in an ascidian: novel lectin isolated from the plasma of the solitary ascidian Halocynthia roretzi. J. Immunol. 167:2001;4504-4510.
36. Smith L.C., Azumi K., Nonaka M. Complement systems in invertebrates. The ancient alternative and lectin pathways. Immunopharmacology. 42:1999;107-120.
37. Smith L.C., Chang L., Britten R.J., Davidson E.H. Sea urchin genes expressed in activated coelomocytes are identified by expressed sequence tags. J. Immunol. 156:1996;593-602.
38. Smith L.C., Shih C.-S., Dachenhausen S.G. Coelomocytes express SpBf, a homologue of Factor B, the second component in the sea urchin complement system. J. Immunol. 161:1998;6784-6793.
39. Swalla B.J., Cameron C.B., Corley L.S., Garey J.R. Urochordates are monophyletic within the deuterostomes. Systematic Biol. 49:2000;122-134.
40. Sokal R.R., Rohlf F.J. Biometry. 1981;WH Freeman, New York, London.
41. Wilken H.C., Gotze O., Werfel T., Zwirner J. C3a(desArg) does not bind to and signal through the human C3a receptor. Immunol. Lett. 67:1999;141-145.
42. Wright R.K. Protochordate immunity. I. Primary response of the tunicate Ciona intestinalis to vertebrate erythrocytes. J. Invert. Pathol. 24:1974;29-36.