Isolation of monotreme T-cell receptor α and β chains

Immunogenetics

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 164-169

  Belov, Katherine ^a   Miller, Robert D ^b   Ilijeski, Aron ^c   Hellman, Lars ^d   Harrison, Gavan A ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Evolution; Mammal; Monotreme; Short beaked echidna; T cell receptor

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHICKEN; ECHIDNA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; MONOTREMATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ECHIDNA; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR ALPHA; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR BETA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BOS TAURUS; EUTHERIA; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA; TACHYGLOSSUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 3142683170     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Alcover A, Mariuzza RA, Ermonval M, Acuto O (1990) Lysine 271 in the transmembrane domain of the T-cell antigen receptor beta chain is necessary for its assembly with the CD3 complex but not for alpha/beta dimerization. J Biol Chem 265:4131-4135
2. Baker ML, Rosenberg GH, Zuccolotto P, Harrison GA, Deane EM, Miller RD (2001) Further characterization of T cell receptor chains of marsupials. Dev Comp Immunol 25:495-507
3. Belov K, Hellman L, Cooper DW (2002) Characterisation of IgG1 from a monotreme, Tachyglossus aculeatus. Immunogenetics 53:1065-1071
4. Belov K, Lam MK, Hellman L, Colgan DJ (2003) Evolution of the major histocompatibility complex: isolation of class II β cDNAs from two monotremes, the platypus and the short-beaked echidna. Immunogenetics 55:402-411
5. Campbell KS, Backstrom BT, Tiefenthaler G, Palmer E (1994) CART: a conserved antigen receptor transmembrane motif. Semin Immunol 6:393-410
6. Charlemagne J, Fellah JS, De Guerra A, Kerfourn F, Partula S (1998) T-cell receptors in ectothermic vertebrates. Immunol Rev 166:87-102
7. Chothia C, Boswell DR, Lesk AM (1988) The outline structure of the T-cell alpha beta receptor. EMBO J 7:3745-3755
8. Connolly JH, Canfield PJ, McClure SJ, Whittington RJ (1999) Histological and immunohistological investigation of lymphoid tissue in the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). J Anat 195:161-171
9. Garcia KC, Degano M, Stanfield RL, Brunmark A, Jackson MR, Peterson PA, Teyton L, Wilson IA (1996) An alphabeta T cell receptor structure at 2.5 A and its orientation in the TCR-MHC complex. Science 274:209-219
10. Harrison GA, Taylor CL, Miller RD, Deane EM (2003) Primary structure and variation of the T-cell receptor delta-chain from a marsupial, Macropus eugenii. Immunol Lett 88:117-125
11. Kumar S, Tamura K, Jakobsen IB, Nei M (2001) MEGA2: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis software. Bioinformatics 17:1244-1245
12. Li ZG, Wu WP, Manolios N (1996) Structural mutations in the constant region of the T-cell antigen receptor (TCR) beta chain and their effect on TCR alpha and beta chain interaction. Immunology 88:524-530
13. Livak F, Schatz DG (1998) Alternative splicing of rearranged T cell receptor delta sequences to the constant region of the alpha locus. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95:5694-5699
14. Miska KB, Harrison GA, Hellman L, Miller RD (2002) The major histocompatibility complex in monotremes: an analysis of the evolution of Mhc class I genes across all three mammalian subclasses. Immunogenetics 54:381-393
15. Miska KB, Hellman L, Miller RD (2003) Characterization of B2-microglobulin coding sequence from three non-placental mammals: the duckbill platypus, the short-beaked echidna, and the grey short-tailed opossum. Dev Comp Immunol 27:247-256
16. Musser AM (2003) Review of the monotreme fossil record and comparison of palaeontological and molecular data. Comp Biochem Physiol A 136:927-942
17. Saito H, Kranz DM, Takagaki Y, Hayday AC, Eisen HN, Tonegawa S (1984) Complete primary structure of a heterodimeric T-cell receptor deduced from cDNA sequences. Nature 309:757-762
18. Su C, Jakobsen I, Gu X, Nei M (1999) Diversity and evolution of T-cell receptor variable region genes in mammals and birds. Immunogenetics 50:301-308
19. 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
20. Zuccolotto PD, Harrison GA, Deane EM (2000) Cloning of marsupial T cell receptor alpha and beta constant region cDNAs. Immunol Cell Biol 78:103-109