RT1.L: A family of MHC class Ib genes of the rat major histocompatibility complex with a distinct promoter structure

Immunogenetics

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 28-37

  Lambracht Washington, Doris ^a   Düvel, Heike ^a   Hänisch, Lisa ^a   Dinkel, Astrid ^a   Wonigeit, Kurt ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distinct class I promoter; Rat MHC; RT1.L gene family; Serological crossreactivity

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1B; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HAPLOTYPE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA; GENES, MHC CLASS I; HAPLOTYPES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 2442595987     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-004-0650-9     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Aldrich CJ, DeCloux A, Woods AS, Cotter RJ, Soloski MJ, Forman J (1994) Identification of a Tap-dependent leader peptide recognized by alloreactive T cells specific for a class Ib antigen. Cell 79:649-658
2. Braud VM, Allan DS, O'Callaghan CA, Soderstrom K, D'Andrea A, Ogg GS, Lazetic S, Young NT, Bell JI, Phillips JH, Lanier LL, McMichael AJ (1998) HLA-E binds to natural killer cell receptors CD94/NKG2A, B and C. Nature 391:795-799
3. Fukomoto T, McMaster WR, Williams AF (1982) Mouse monoclonal antibodies against rat major histocompatibility antigens. Two Ia antigens and expression of Ia and class I antigens in the rat thymus. Eur J Immunol 12:237-243
4. Gonzalez-Munoz AL, Le Rolle AF, Brun H, Hedrich HJ, Wedekind D, Powis SJ, Joly E, Butcher GW (2003) A novel instance of class I modification (cim) affecting two of three rat class I RT1-A molecules within one MHC haplotype. J Immunol 171:274-284
5. Günther E, Wurst W (1984) Cytotoxic T lymphocytes of the rat are predominantly restricted by RT1.A and not RT1.C-determined major histocompatibility class I antigens. Immunogenetics 20:1-12
6. Hedrich HJ (1990) Genetic monitoring of inbred strains of rats. Fischer, Stuttgart
7. Hughes AL, Nei M (1989) Evolution of the major histocompatibility complex: independent origin of nonclassical class I genes in different groups of mammals. Mol Biol Evol 6:559-579
8. Ioannidu S, Walter L, Dressel R, Günther E (2001) Physical map and expression profile of genes of the telomeric class I gene region of the rat MHC. J Immunol 166:3957-3965
9. Jameson SC, Tope WD, Tredgett EM, Windle JM, Diamond AG, Howard JC (1992) Cloning and expression of class I major histocompatibility complex genes of the rat. J Exp Med 175:1749-1757
10. c expresses two classical class I molecules. J Immunol 57:1551-1558
11. Kraus E, Lambracht D, Wonigeit K, Hünig T (1996) Negative regulation of rat natural killer cell activity by major histocompatibility complex class I recognition. Eur J Immunol 26:2582-2586
12. Kryspin-Sorensen I, Johansen T, Kastern W (1991) Genomic organization and sequence of a rat class I MHC gene that is an apparent pseudogene. Immunogenetics 33:213-215
13. Kumanovics A, Takada T, Fischer Lindahl K (2003) Genomic organization of the mammalian MHC. Annu Rev Immunol 21:629-657
14. Kumar S, Tamura K, Nei M (1993) MEGA: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis, version 1.01. The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Penn.
15. Kurepa Z, Hasemann CA, Forman J (1998) Qa-1b binds conserved class I leader peptides derived from several mammalian species. J Exp Med 188:973-978
16. Lambracht D (1994) Molekulargenetische Charakterisierung von atypischen Klasse I Antigenen des MHC der Ratte. PhD thesis, University of Hannover, Hannover
17. 1 and two other class I genes of the rat MHC. Immunogenetics 41:375-379
18. Lambracht-Washington D, Fischer Lindahl K (2002) Does the rat have an H2-D orthologue next to Bat1? Immunogenetics 53:1039-1046
19. Lambracht D, Schulze F, Wonigeit K (1993) Cloning of the RT1.L gene coding for a low polymorphic class I antigen in the rat. Transplant Proc 25:2766-2767
20. Leong LY, Le Rolle AF, Deverson EV, Powis SJ, Larkins AP, Vaage JT, Stokland A, Lambracht-Washington D, Rolstad B, Joly E, Butcher GW (1999) RT1-U: identification of a novel, active, class Ib alloantigen of the rat MHC. J Immunol 162:743-752
21. Salter RD, Benjamin RJ, Wesley PK, Buxton SE, Gaffett TP, Clayberger C, Krensky AM, Norment AM, Littman DR, Parham P (1990) A binding site for the T-cell co-receptor CD8 on the alpha 3 domain of HLA-A2. Nature 345:41-46
22. Saper MA, Bjorkman PJ, Wiley DC (1991) Refined structure of the human histocompatibility antigen HLA-A2 at 2.6 Å resolution. J Mol Biol 219:277-319
23. Sipes SL, Medaglia MV, Stabley DL, DeBruyn CS, Alden MS, Catenacci V, Landel CP (1996) A new major histocompatibility complex class Ib gene expressed in the mouse blastocyst and placenta. Immunogenetics 45:108-120
24. Thompson JD, Higgins DG, Gibson TJ (1994) CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Res 22:4673-4680
25. Walter L, Günther E (2000) Physical mapping and evolution of the centromeric class I gene-containing region of the rat MHC. Immunogenetics 51:829-837
26. Wang Q, Flaherty L (1996) Developmental expression of the mouse MHC Q genes. Eur J Immunogenet 23:121-127
27. Wang Q, Geliebter J, Tonkonogy S, Flaherty L (1993) Expression of the Q2 gene of the MHC in thymus and intestinal epithelial cells. Immunogenetics 38:370-372
28. Watts S, Cranmer Davis A, Gaut B, Wheeler CH, Hill L, Goodenow RS (1989) Organization and structure of the Qa genes of the major histocompatibility complex of the C3H mouse: implications for Qa function and class I evolution. EMBO J 8:1749-1759
29. Wonigeit K, Hänisch L (1991) Two new class I loci in the rat major histocompatibility complex: RT1.L and RT1.M. Transplant Proc 23:468-170
30. Wonigeit K, Hedrich HJ, Günther E (1979) Serologic and histogenetic analysis of apparently identical RT1 haplotypes. Transplant Proc 11:1584-1587
31. Wurst W, Wonigeit K, Günther E (1989) A mutant rat major histocompatibility haplotype showing a large deletion of class I sequences. Immunogenetics 30:237-242