Novel classical MHC class I alleles identified in horses by sequencing clones of reverse transcription-PCR products

European Journal of Immunogenetics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 387-396

  Chung, C ^a   Leib, S R ^a   Fraser, D G ^a   Ellis, S A ^b   McGuire, T C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUINE LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN A; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELISM; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CLONE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HAPLOTYPE; HORSE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; HAPLOTYPES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HORSES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0348140959     PISSN: 09607420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2370.2003.00420.x     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Amills, M., Ramiya, V., Norimine, J. & Lewin, H.A. (1998) The major histocompatibility complex of ruminants. Review of Science Technology, 17, 108.
2. Antczak, D.F. (1991) The major histocompatibility complex of the horse. In: Equine Infectious Disease VI (eds W. Plowright et al.). Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference, p. 99. R & W Publications, Newmaket.
3. Arguello, R., Avakian, H., Goldman, J.M. & Madrigal, J.A. (1996) A novel method for simultaneous high resolution identification of HLA-A, HLA-B, and HLA-Cw alleles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 93, 10961.
4. Arguello, J.R., Little, A.M., Bohan, E., Goldman, J.M., Marsh, S.G. & Madrigal, J.A. (1998) High resolution HLA class I typing by reference strand mediated conformation analysis (RSCA). Tissue Antigens, 52, 57.
5. Bailey, E., Antczak, D.F., Bernoco, D., Bull, R.W., Fister, R., Guerin, G., Lazary, S., Matthews, S., McClure, J. & Meyer, J. (1984) Joint report of the Second International Workshop on Lymphocyte Alloantigens of the Horse, held 3 October 1982. Animal Blood Groups Biochemistry and Gene, 15, 123.
6. Bailey, E., Marti, E., Fraser, D.G., Antczak, D.F. & Lazary, S. (2000) Immunogenetics of the Horse. In: The Genetics of the Horse (eds A. T. Bowling & A. Ruvinsky), p. 123. CABI publishing, New York.
7. Barbis, D.P., Maher, J.K., Stanek, J., Klaunberg, B.A. & Antczak, D.F. (1994a) Horse cDNA clones encoding two MHC class I genes. Immunogenetics, 40, 163.
8. Bernoco, D., Byrns, G., Bailey, D.F., Bell, K., Bull, R.W., Byrns, G. et al. (1987a) Joint report of the Fourth International Workshop on Lymphocyte Alloantigens of the horse, Lexington, Kentucky, 12 October 1985. Animal Genetics, 18, 81.
9. Bernoco, D., Antczak, G., Bailey, E. & Lew, A.M. (1987b) Evidence of a second polymorphic ELA class I (ELA-B) locus and gene order for three loci of the equine major histocompatibility complex. Animal Genetics, 18, 103.
10. Bull, R.W. (1983) Joint report of the First International Workshop on Lymphocyte Alloantigens of the Horse held 24 October 1981. Animal Blood Groups Biochemistry and Genetics, 14, 119.
11. Carpenter, S., Baker, J.M., Bacon, S.J., Hopman, T., Maher, J., Ellis, S.A. & Antczak, D.F. (2001) Molecular and functional characterization of genes encoding horse MHC class I antigens. Immunogenetics, 53, 802.
12. Cereb, N., Maye, P., Lee, S., Kong, Y. & Yang, S.Y. (1995) Locus-specific amplification of HLA class I genes from genomic DNA: locus-specific sequences in the first and third introns of HLA-A, -B and -C alleles. Tissue Antigens, 45, 1.
13. Cereb, N., Hughes, A.L. & Yang, S.Y. (1997) Locus-specific conservation of the HLA class I introns by intra-locus homogenization. Immunogenetics, 47, 30.
14. Chardon, P., Renard, C. & Vaiman, M. (1999) The major histocompatibility complex in swine. Immunological Review, 167, 179.
15. Ellis, S.A., Holmes, E.C., Staines, K.A., Smith, K.B., Stear, M.J., McKeever, D.J., MacHugh, N.D. & Morrison, W.I. (1999) Variation in the number of expressed MHC genes in different cattle class I haplotypes. Immunogenetics, 50, 319.
16. Ellis, S.A., Martin, A.J., Holmes, E.C. & Morrison, W.I. (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. European Journal of Immunogenetics, 22, 249.
17. de Groot, N.G., Otting, N., Arguello, R., Watkins, D.I., Doxiadis, G.G., Madrigal, J.A. & Bontrop, R.E. (2000) Major histocompatibility complex class I diversity in a West African chimpanzee population: implications for HIV research. Immunogenetics, 51, 398.
18. Higgins, D., Thompson, J., Gibson, T., Thompson, J.D., Higgins, D.G. & Gibson, T.J. (1994) CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Research, 22, 4673.
19. Holmes, E.C. & Ellis, S.A. (1999) Evolutionary history of MHC class I genes in the mammalian order Perissodactyla. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 49, 316.
20. Johnson, D.R., Biedermann, B.C. & Mook-Kanamori, B. (2000) Rapid cloning of HLA class I cDNAs by locus specific PCR. Journal of Immunological Methods, 233, 119.
21. Katsuyama, Y., Ota, M., Ando, H., Saito, S., Mizuki, N., Kera, J., Bahram, S., Nose, Y. & Inoko, H. (1999) Sequencing based typing for genetic polymorphisms in exons 2, 3 and 4 of the MICA gene. Tissue Antigens, 54, 178.
22. Kaufman, J., Salomonsen, J. & Flajnik, M. (1994) Evolutionary conservation of MHC class I and class II molecules - different yet the same. Seminars in Immunology, 6, 411.
23. Kurz, B., Steiert, I., Heuchert, G. & Muller, C.A. (1999) New high resolution typing strategy for HLA-A locus alleles based on dye terminator sequencing of haplotypic group-specific PCR-amplicons of exon 2 and exon 3. Tissue Antigens, 53, 81.
24. Lazary, S., Antczak, D.F., Bailey, E., Bell, T.K., Bernoco, D., Byrns, G. & McClure, J.J. (1988) Joint Report of the Fifth International Workshop on Lymphocyte Alloantigens of the Horse, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 31 October-1 November 1987. Animal Genetics, 19, 447.
25. Little, A.M. & Parham, P. (1999) Polymorphism and evolution of HLA class I and II genes and molecules. Review of Immunogenetics, 1, 105.
26. Lunn, D.P., Holmes, M.A., Antczak, D.F., Agerwal, N., Baker, J., Bendali-Ahcene, S. et al. (1998) Report of the Second Equine Leucocyte Antigen Workshop, Squaw valley, California, July 1995. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, 62, 101.
27. McGuire, T.C., Leib, S.R., Mealey, R.H., Fraser, D.G. & Prieur, D.J. (2003) Presetation and binding affinity of equine infectious anemia virus CTL envelop and matrix protein epitopes by an expressed equine classical MHC class I molecule. Journal of Immunology, 171, 1894.
28. Meyer, D. & Thomson, G. (2001) How selection shapes variation of the human major histocompatibility complex: a review. Annals of Human Genetics, 65, 1.
29. Mitsunaga, S., Tokunaga, K., Kashiwase, K., Akaza, T., Tadokoro, K. & Juji, T. (1998) A nested PCR-RFLP method for high-resolution typing of HLA-A alleles. European Journal of Immunogenetics, 25, 15.
30. O'Brien, S.J., Roelke, M.E., Marker, L., Newman, A., Winkler, C.A., Meltzer, D., Colly, L., Evermann, J.F., Bush, M. & Wildt, D.E. (1985) Genetic basis for species vulnerability in the cheetah. Science, 227, 1428.
31. Parham, P. & Ohta, T. (1996) Population biology of antigen presentation by MHC class I molecules. Science, 272, 67.
32. Sawhney, S.M., Taylor, D.W. & Russell, G.C. (2001) Polymorphism of bovine major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I genes revealed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and restriction enzyme analysis. Animal Genetics, 32, 27.
33. Suzuki, Y., Sekiya, T. & Hayashi, K. (1991) Allele-specific polymerase chain reaction: a method for amplification and sequence determination of a single component among a mixture of sequence variants. Analytical Biochemistry, 192, 82.
34. Terasaki, P.I., Bernoco, D., Park, M.S., Ozturk, G. & Iwaki, Y. (1978) Microdroplet testing for HLA-A, -B, -C and -D antigens. The Phillip Levine Award Lecture. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 69, 103.
35. Williams, T.M. (2001) Human leukocyte antigen gene polymorphism and the histocompatibility laboratory. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, 3, 98.
36. Zhang, W., Lonning, S.M. & McGuire, T.C. (1998) Gag protein epitopes recognized by ELA-A-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes from horses with long-term equine infectious anemia virus infection. Journal of Virology, 72, 9612.