Discovery of α-defensins in basal mammals

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 963-967

  Lynn, David J ^a   Bradley, Daniel G ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Armadillo; Elephant; Evolution; Hidden Markov model profile; Mammal; Opossum; Tenrec; Defensins

Indexed keywords

ALPHA DEFENSIN;

ARMADILLO; ARTICLE; EDENTATA; ELEPHANT; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY;

AFROTHERIA; ARMADILLO; DASYPUS NOVEMCINCTUS; DIDELPHIDAE; ECHINOPS TELFAIRI; EUARCHONTOGLIRES; EUTHERIA; LOXODONTA AFRICANA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; MYA; TENREC; XENARTHRA;

EID: 34447639239     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2007.01.007     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Lehrer R.I., and Ganz T. Defensins of vertebrate animals. Curr Opin Immunol 14 1 (2002) 96-102
2. Ganz T., Selsted M.E., Szklarek D., Harwig S.S., Daher K., Bainton D.F., et al. Defensins-natural peptide antibiotics of human neutrophils. J Clin Invest 76 4 (1985) 1427-1435
3. Jones D.E., and Bevins C.L. Paneth cells of the human small intestine express an antimicrobial peptide gene. J Biol Chem 267 32 (1992) 23216-23225
4. Harder J., Bartels J., Christophers E., and Schroder J.M. A peptide antibiotic from human skin. Nature 387 6636 (1997) 861
5. Bals R., Goldman M.J., and Wilson J.M. Mouse beta-defensin 1 is a salt-sensitive antimicrobial peptide present in epithelia of the lung and urogenital tract. Infect Immunol 66 3 (1998) 1225-1232
6. Sugiarto H., and Yu P.L. Avian antimicrobial peptides: the defense role of beta-defensins. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 323 3 (2004) 721-727
7. Lynn D.J., Higgs R., Gaines S., Tierney J., James T., Lloyd A.T., et al. Bioinformatic discovery and initial characterisation of nine novel antimicrobial peptide genes in the chicken. Immunogenetics 56 3 (2004) 170-177
8. Zou J., Mercier C., Koussounadis A., and Secombes C. Discovery of multiple beta-defensin like homologues in teleost fish. Mol Immunol 44 4 (2007) 638-647
9. Yang D., Biragyn A., Kwak L.W., and Oppenheim J.J. Mammalian defensins in immunity: more than just microbicidal. Trends Immunol 23 6 (2002) 291-296
10. Tang Y.Q., Yuan J., Miller C.J., and Selsted M.E. Isolation, characterization, cDNA cloning, and antimicrobial properties of two distinct subfamilies of alpha-defensins from rhesus macaque leukocytes. Infect Immunol 67 11 (1999) 6139-6144
11. Tang Y.Q., Yuan J., Osapay G., Osapay K., Tran D., Miller C.J., et al. A cyclic antimicrobial peptide produced in primate leukocytes by the ligation of two truncated alpha-defensins. Science 286 5439 (1999) 498-502
12. Cole A.M., Hong T., Boo L.M., Nguyen T., Zhao C., Bristol G., et al. Retrocyclin: a primate peptide that protects cells from infection by T- and M-tropic strains of HIV-1. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99 4 (2002) 1813-1818
13. Buck C.B., Day P.M., Thompson C.D., Lubkowski J., Lu W., Lowy D.R., et al. Human alpha-defensins block papillomavirus infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103 5 (2006) 1516-1521
14. Kuhn L., Trabattoni D., Kankasa C., Semrau K., Kasonde P., Lissoni F., et al. Alpha-defensins in the prevention of HIV transmission among breastfed infants. J Acquire Immune Defic Syndr 39 2 (2005) 138-142
15. Wehkamp J., Salzman N.H., Porter E., Nuding S., Weichenthal M., Petras R.E., et al. Reduced Paneth cell alpha-defensins in ileal Crohn's disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102 50 (2005) 18129-18134
16. Patil A., Hughes A.L., and Zhang G. Rapid evolution and diversification of mammalian alpha-defensins as revealed by comparative analysis of rodent and primate genes. Physiol Genomics 20 1 (2004) 1-11
17. Altschul S.F., Madden T.L., Schaffer A.A., Zhang J., Zhang Z., Miller W., et al. Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs. Nucleic Acids Res 25 17 (1997) 3389-3402
18. Eddy S.R. Profile hidden Markov models. Bioinformatics 14 9 (1998) 755-763
19. Ghosh D., Porter E., Shen B., Lee S.K., Wilk D., Drazba J., et al. Paneth cell trypsin is the processing enzyme for human defensin-5. Nat Immunol 3 6 (2002) 583-590
20. Notredame C., Higgins D.G., and Heringa J. T-Coffee: a novel method for fast and accurate multiple sequence alignment. J Mol Biol 302 1 (2000) 205-217
21. Hedges S.B. Afrotheria: plate tectonics meets genomics. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 98 1 (2001) 1-2
22. Yeh R.F., Lim L.P., and Burge C.B. Computational inference of homologous gene structures in the human genome. Genome Res 11 5 (2001) 803-816
23. Springer M.S., Stanhope M.J., Madsen O., and de Jong W.W. Molecules consolidate the placental mammal tree. Trends Ecol Evol 19 8 (2004) 430-438
24. Schwartz S., Kent W.J., Smit A., Zhang Z., Baertsch R., Hardison R.C., et al. Human-mouse alignments with BLASTZ. Genome Res 13 1 (2003) 103-107
25. Janke A., Xu X., and Arnason U. The complete mitochondrial genome of the wallaroo (Macropus robustus) and the phylogenetic relationship among Monotremata, Marsupialia, and Eutheria. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 94 4 (1997) 1276-1281
26. Looft C., Paul S., Philipp U., Regenhard P., Kuiper H., Distl O., et al. Sequence analysis of a 212 kb defensin gene cluster on ECA 27q17. Gene 376 2 (2006) 192-198
27. Zanetti M. Cathelicidins, multifunctional peptides of the innate immunity. J Leukoc Biol 75 1 (2004) 39-48
28. Murphy W.J., Eizirik E., O'Brien S.J., Madsen O., Scally M., Douady C.J., et al. Resolution of the early placental mammal radiation using Bayesian phylogenetics. Science 294 5550 (2001) 2348-2351