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Rodríguez RM, López-Vázquez A, López-Larrea C. Immune systems evolution. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2012; 739:237-51. [PMID: 22399406 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1704-0_15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Animals and plants have a complex and effective immune system that protect them from invading microorganisms. The mechanisms of immunity are evolutionarily selected throughout host-pathogen interaction to be tolerant to self-antigens and to recognize nonself molecular patterns. Plants and animals share a germ line encoded diversity of receptors capable of nonself recognition. Somatic rearranging of immunological receptors emerges at early stages of vertebrate evolution, allowing these animals to generate an almost unlimited diversity of receptors. Nevertheless, this recombinational system came with a high price: The potential for self-reactivity. In this chapter we will discuss the differences and the striking similarities of the immune mechanisms across different taxa in the context of evolution and the selective pressures that favoured the development of the adaptive immune system and the lymphoid organs.
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- Ramón M Rodríguez
- Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory, Instituto Universitario de Oncología del Principado de Asturias (IUOPA), HUCA, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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Danilova N. The evolution of adaptive immunity. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2012; 738:218-35. [PMID: 22399382 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1680-7_13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The concept of adaptive immunity suggests de novo generation in each individual of extremely large repertoires of diversified receptors and selective expansion of receptors that match the antigen/pathogen. Accordingly, adaptive immune system is also called "anticipatory". It allows each individual to have a unique repertoire of immune receptors corresponding to its life history. The memory of an antigen gets encoded in the clonal composition of the organism's immune cells instead of being encoded in the genome. Consequently, the immune response to repeated encounter with the same antigen becomes stronger, a phenomenon called immunological memory. Elements of adaptive immunity are found at all taxonomical levels, whereas in vertebrates, adaptive mechanisms have become the cornerstone of the immune system. In jaw vertebrates, adaptive immune receptors of T and B lymphoid cells belong to immunoglobulin superfamily and are created by rearrangement of gene segments. In jawless vertebrates lamprey and hagfish, recombination of leucine-rich repeat modules is used to form variable lymphocyte receptors. Striking functional similarity of the cellular and humoral branches of these systems suggests similar driving forces underlying their development.
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- Nadia Danilova
- Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA,USA.
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Zhuang ZH, Zhao XL, Li H, Wang SY, Peng XX. Gut CaVP is an innate immune protein against bacterial challenge in amphioxus Branchiostoma belcheri. FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY 2011; 31:217-223. [PMID: 21624472 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2011.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2011] [Revised: 03/16/2011] [Accepted: 05/09/2011] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The importance of calcium-binding proteins in immune response of vertebrates is determined, but whether they have the role in invertebrates is largely unknown. In the present study, phylogenetic analysis indicated that calcium vector protein (CaVP), a protein unique to amphioxus, shared 68% similarity in amino acid sequence with human and mouse calmodulin (CaM). CaVP cDNA was cloned into a bacterial vector pET-32a, and its His-tagged fusion protein was produced in Eschherichia coli cells (BL21). The recombinant CaVP was purified by Ni-NTA column and SDS-PAGE, and then utilized for antibody preparing. The prepared antibodies could recognize amphioxus CaVP with high specificity. Further analysis by Western blotting showed that CaVP was detected in muscle and humoral fluid of normal animals and appeared in gut of bacterial immunized or challenged amphioxus. Interestingly, gut CaVP was significantly higher in a healthy sub-group than a wounded sub-group post bacterial challenge. This response was detected strongly in immunization and challenge by the same Gram-negative bacterium Vibro parahaemolyticus and weakly in immunization by V. parahaemolyticus and then challenge by Gram-negative Aeromonas hydrophila, whereas no any feedback was found in immunization by V. parahaemolyticus and challenge by Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus. These findings indicate the importance of gut CaVP in response to bacterial challenge.
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- Zhen-Hong Zhuang
- Center for Proteomics, Department of Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, People's Republic of China
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Both jawless vertebrates, such as lampreys and hagfish, and jawed vertebrates (encompassing species as diverse as sharks and humans) have an adaptive immune system that is based on somatically diversified and clonally expressed antigen receptors. Although the molecular nature of the antigen receptors and the mechanisms of their assembly are different, recent findings suggest that the general design principles underlying the two adaptive immune systems are surprisingly similar. The identification of such commonalities promises to further our understanding of the mammalian immune system and to inspire the development of new strategies for medical interventions targeting the consequences of faulty immune functions.
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- Thomas Boehm
- Department of Developmental Immunology, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Stuebeweg 51, D-79108 Freiburg, Germany.
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Mottet M, Goffinet L, Beckers A, Bodart G, Morrhaye G, Kermani H, Renard C, Martens H, Geenen V. The role of the thymus in the integrated evolution of the recombinase-dependent adaptive immune response and the neuroendocrine system. Neuroimmunomodulation 2011; 18:314-9. [PMID: 21952683 DOI: 10.1159/000329498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Before being able to react against infectious non-self-antigens, the immune system has to be educated in recognition and tolerance of neuroendocrine self-proteins. This sophisticated educational process takes place only in the thymus. The development of an autoimmune response directed to neuroendocrine glands has been shown to result from a thymus dysfunction in programming immunological self-tolerance to neuroendocrine-related antigens. This thymus dysfunction leads to a breakdown of immune homeostasis with an enrichment of 'forbidden' self-reactive T cells and a deficiency in self-antigen-specific natural regulatory T cells in the peripheral T lymphocyte repertoire. A large number of neuroendocrine self-antigens are expressed by the thymic epithelium, under the control of the autoimmune regulator (AIRE) gene/protein in the medulla. Based on the close homology and cross-tolerance between thymic type 1 diabetes-related self-antigens and peripheral antigens targeted in β-cells by autoimmunity, a novel type of vaccination is currently developed for the prevention and cure of type 1 diabetes. If this approach were found to be effective in reprogramming immunological tolerance that is absent or broken in this disease, it could pave the way for the design of negative/tolerogenic self-vaccines against other endocrine and organ-specific autoimmune disorders.
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- Marie Mottet
- University of Liege Center of Immunology, Institute of Pathology CHU-B23, Liege-Sart Tilman, Belgium
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Koppang EO, Fischer U, Moore L, Tranulis MA, Dijkstra JM, Köllner B, Aune L, Jirillo E, Hordvik I. Salmonid T cells assemble in the thymus, spleen and in novel interbranchial lymphoid tissue. J Anat 2010; 217:728-39. [PMID: 20880086 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2010.01305.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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In modern bony fishes, or teleost fish, the general lack of leucocyte markers has greatly hampered investigations of the anatomy of the immune system and its reactions involved in inflammatory responses. We have previously reported the cloning and sequencing of the salmon CD3 complex, molecules that are specifically expressed in T cells. Here, we generate and validate sera recognizing a peptide sequence of the CD3ε chain. Flow cytometry analysis revealed high numbers of CD3ε(+) or T cells in the thymus, gill and intestine, whereas lower numbers were detected in the head kidney, spleen and peripheral blood leucocytes. Subsequent morphological analysis showed accumulations of T cells in the thymus and spleen and in the newly discovered gill-located interbranchial lymphoid tissue. In the latter, the T cells are embedded in a meshwork of epithelial cells and in the spleen, they cluster in the white pulp surrounding ellipsoids. The anatomical organization of the salmonid thymic cortex and medulla seems to be composed of three layers consisting of a sub-epithelial medulla-like zone, an intermediate cortex-like zone and finally another cortex-like basal zone. Our study in the salmonid thymus reports a previously non-described tissue organization. In the intestinal tract, abundant T cells were found embedded in the epithelium. In non-lymphoid organs, the presence of T cells was limited. The results show that the interbranchial lymphoid tissue is quantitatively a very important site of T cell aggregation, strategically located to facilitate antigen encounter. The interbranchial lymphoid tissue has no resemblance to previously described lymphoid tissues.
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- Erling O Koppang
- Section of Anatomy and Pathology, Institute of Basic Sciences and Aquatic Medicine, Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Oslo, Norway.
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Adaptive immunity is mediated through numerous genetic and cellular processes that generate favourable somatic variants of antigen-binding receptors under evolutionary selection pressure by pathogens and other factors. Advances in our understanding of immunity in mammals and other model organisms are revealing the underlying basis and complexity of this remarkable system. Although the evolution of adaptive immunity has been thought to occur by the acquisition of novel molecular capabilities, an increasing amount of information from new model systems suggest that co-option and redirection of pre-existing systems are the main source of innovation. We combine evidence from a wide range of organisms to obtain an integrated view of the origins and patterns of divergence in adaptive immunity.
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- Gary W Litman
- Department of Molecular Genetics, All Children's Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701, USA.
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Petit D, Mir AM, Petit JM, Thisse C, Delannoy P, Oriol R, Thisse B, Harduin-Lepers A. Molecular phylogeny and functional genomics of beta-galactoside alpha2,6-sialyltransferases that explain ubiquitous expression of st6gal1 gene in amniotes. J Biol Chem 2010; 285:38399-414. [PMID: 20855889 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.163931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Sialyltransferases are key enzymes in the biosynthesis of sialoglycoconjugates that catalyze the transfer of sialic residue from its activated form to an oligosaccharidic acceptor. β-Galactoside α2,6-sialyltransferases ST6Gal I and ST6Gal II are the two unique members of the ST6Gal family described in higher vertebrates. The availability of genome sequences enabled the identification of more distantly related invertebrates' st6gal gene sequences and allowed us to propose a scenario of their evolution. Using a phylogenomic approach, we present further evidence of an accelerated evolution of the st6gal1 genes both in their genomic regulatory sequences and in their coding sequence in reptiles, birds, and mammals known as amniotes, whereas st6gal2 genes conserve an ancestral profile of expression throughout vertebrate evolution.
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- Daniel Petit
- Unité de Génétique Moléculaire Animale, Université de Limoges Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, INRA UMR 1061, 123 Avenue Albert Thomas, 87060 Limoges, France
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This report describes a meeting organized by Ken Smith and Jim Kaufman, entitled Evolution and Immunity, which took place at the University of Cambridge on 24 September 2009 to honour the anniversaries of the birth of Darwin and the first publication of The Origin of Species. Ten internationally-known speakers described the effects of evolution on immunity, ranging in timescales from the deep-time evolution of adaptive immune systems in vertebrates and invertebrates to the evolution of pathogens and lymphocytes within a single individual. The final talk explored the application of phylogenetic analysis to non-biological systems.
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- Jim Kaufman
- Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Cooper MD. 99th Dahlem conference on infection, inflammation and chronic inflammatory disorders: evolution of adaptive immunity in vertebrates. Clin Exp Immunol 2010; 160:58-61. [PMID: 20415852 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2010.04126.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Adaptive immunity has been defined, principally through studies of avian and mammalian species, as the ability to mount specific immune responses to a virtually unlimited variety of antigens. A key feature of an adaptive immune system is the ability to remember previous encounters with antigens and to achieve a more rapid, heightened response on secondary encounter. Adaptive immune systems featuring an enormous anticipatory receptor diversity and specific memory have been defined only in vertebrates. Surprisingly, the adaptive immune systems in jawless and jawed vertebrates employ very different types of antigen receptors. This evolutionary inventiveness suggests that adaptive immunity provided additional fitness value over the previously existing innate immune mechanisms.
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- M D Cooper
- Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
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Quintana FJ, Iglesias AH, Farez MF, Caccamo M, Burns EJ, Kassam N, Oukka M, Weiner HL. Adaptive autoimmunity and Foxp3-based immunoregulation in zebrafish. PLoS One 2010; 5:e9478. [PMID: 20221429 PMCID: PMC2832694 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2009] [Accepted: 12/31/2009] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Jawed vertebrates generate their immune-receptor repertoire by a recombinatorial mechanism that has the potential to produce harmful autoreactive lymphocytes. In mammals, peripheral tolerance to self-antigens is enforced by Foxp3(+) regulatory T cells. Recombinatorial mechanisms also operate in teleosts, but active immunoregulation is thought to be a late incorporation to the vertebrate lineage. METHODS/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Here we report the characterization of adaptive autoimmunity and Foxp3-based immunoregulation in the zebrafish. We found that zebrafish immunization with an homogenate of zebrafish central nervous system (zCNS) triggered CNS inflammation and specific antibodies. We cloned the zebrafish ortholog for mammalian Foxp3 (zFoxp3) which induced a regulatory phenotype on mouse T cells and controlled IL-17 production in zebrafish embryos. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE Our findings demonstrate the acquisition of active mechanisms of self-tolerance early in vertebrate evolution, suggesting that active regulatory mechanisms accompany the development of the molecular potential for adaptive autoimmunity. Moreover, they identify the zebrafish as a tool to study the molecular pathways controlling adaptive immunity.
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- Francisco J Quintana
- Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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Saha NR, Smith J, Amemiya CT. Evolution of adaptive immune recognition in jawless vertebrates. Semin Immunol 2010; 22:25-33. [PMID: 20056434 DOI: 10.1016/j.smim.2009.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2009] [Accepted: 12/04/2009] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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All extant vertebrates possess an adaptive immune system wherein diverse immune receptors are created and deployed in specialized blood cell lineages. Recent advances in DNA sequencing and developmental resources for basal vertebrates have facilitated numerous comparative analyses that have shed new light on the molecular and cellular bases of immune defense and the mechanisms of immune receptor diversification in the "jawless" vertebrates. With data from these key species in hand, it is becoming possible to infer some general aspects of the early evolution of vertebrate adaptive immunity. All jawed vertebrates assemble their antigen-receptor genes through combinatorial recombination of different "diversity" segments into immunoglobulin or T-cell receptor genes. However, the jawless vertebrates employ an analogous, but independently derived set of immune receptors in order to recognize and bind antigens: the variable lymphocyte receptors (VLRs). The means by which this locus generates receptor diversity and achieves antigen specificity is of considerable interest because these mechanisms represent a completely independent strategy for building a large immune repertoire. Therefore, studies of the VLR system are providing insight into the fundamental principles and evolutionary potential of adaptive immune recognition systems. Here we review and synthesize the wealth of data that have been generated towards understanding the evolution of the adaptive immune system in the jawless vertebrates.
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- Nil Ratan Saha
- Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, 1201 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101, USA.
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The Symptoms of Atopic Dermatitis in NC/Nga Mice Were Significantly Relieved by the Water Extract ofLiriope platyphylla. Lab Anim Res 2010. [DOI: 10.5625/lar.2010.26.4.377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Wu Y, Wu W, Wong WM, Ward E, Thrasher AJ, Goldblatt D, Osman M, Digard P, Canaday DH, Gustafsson K. Human gamma delta T cells: a lymphoid lineage cell capable of professional phagocytosis. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2009; 183:5622-9. [PMID: 19843947 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0901772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Professional phagocytosis in mammals is considered to be performed exclusively by myeloid cell types. In this study, we demonstrate, for the first time, that a mammalian lymphocyte subset can operate as a professional phagocyte. By using confocal microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and functional Ag presentation assays, we find that freshly isolated human peripheral blood gammadelta T cells can phagocytose Escherichia coli and 1 microm synthetic beads via Ab opsonization and CD16 (FcgammaRIII), leading to Ag processing and presentation on MHC class II. In contrast, other CD16(+) lymphocytes, i.e., CD16(+)/CD56(+) NK cells, were not capable of such functions. These findings of distinct myeloid characteristics in gammadelta T cells strongly support the suggestion that gammadelta T cells are evolutionarily ancient lymphocytes and have implications for our understanding of their role in transitional immunity and the control of infectious diseases and cancer.
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- Yin Wu
- Molecular Immunology Unit, University College London Institute of Child Health, London, U.K
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Bajoghli B, Aghaallaei N, Hess I, Rode I, Netuschil N, Tay BH, Venkatesh B, Yu JK, Kaltenbach SL, Holland ND, Diekhoff D, Happe C, Schorpp M, Boehm T. Evolution of genetic networks underlying the emergence of thymopoiesis in vertebrates. Cell 2009; 138:186-97. [PMID: 19559469 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.04.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2008] [Revised: 03/02/2009] [Accepted: 04/03/2009] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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About 500 million years ago, a new type of adaptive immune defense emerged in basal jawed vertebrates, accompanied by morphological innovations, including the thymus. Did these evolutionary novelties arise de novo or from elaboration of ancient genetic networks? We reconstructed the genetic changes underlying thymopoiesis by comparative genome and expression analyses in chordates and basal vertebrates. The derived models of genetic networks were experimentally verified in bony fishes. Ancestral networks defining circumscribed regions of the pharyngeal epithelium of jawless vertebrates expanded in cartilaginous fishes to incorporate novel genes, notably those encoding chemokines. Correspondingly, novel networks evolved in lymphocytes of jawed vertebrates to control the expression of additional chemokine receptors. These complementary changes enabled unprecedented Delta/Notch signaling between pharyngeal epithelium and lymphoid cells that was exploited for specification to the T cell lineage. Our results provide a framework elucidating the evolution of key features of the adaptive immune system in jawed vertebrates.
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- Baubak Bajoghli
- Department of Developmental Immunology, Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology, Stuebeweg 51, D-79108 Freiburg, Germany
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Guo P, Hirano M, Herrin BR, Li J, Yu C, Sadlonova A, Cooper MD. Dual nature of the adaptive immune system in lampreys. Nature 2009; 459:796-801. [PMID: 19474790 PMCID: PMC2714547 DOI: 10.1038/nature08068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 245] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2009] [Accepted: 04/14/2009] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Jawless vertebrates use variable lymphocyte receptors (VLR) comprised of leucine-rich-repeat (LRR) segments as counterparts of the immunoglobulin-based receptors that jawed vertebrates use for antigen recognition. Highly diverse VLR genes are somatically assembled by the insertion of variable LRR sequences into incomplete germline VLRA and VLRB genes. Here we show that in sea lampreys (Petromyzon marinus) VLRA and VLRB anticipatory receptors are expressed by separate lymphocyte populations by monoallelic VLRA or VLRB assembly, together with expression of cytosine deaminase 1 (CDA1) or 2 (CDA2), respectively. Distinctive gene expression profiles for VLRA(+) and VLRB(+) lymphocytes resemble those of mammalian T and B cells. Although both the VLRA and the VLRB cells proliferate in response to antigenic stimulation, only the VLRB lymphocytes bind native antigens and differentiate into VLR antibody-secreting cells. Conversely, VLRA lymphocytes respond preferentially to a classical T-cell mitogen and upregulate the expression of the pro-inflammatory cytokine genes interleukin-17 (IL-17) and macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF). The finding of T-like and B-like lymphocytes in lampreys offers new insight into the evolution of adaptive immunity.
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- Peng Guo
- Emory Vaccine Center and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, 1462 Clifton Road North-East, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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Epithelial cells in the thymus are required for positive and negative selection of developing thymocytes. Although medullary epithelial cells play a major role in negative selection owing to their facility of expressing peripheral self-antigens, the adaptive features of cortical epithelial cells are largely unknown. A paper in this issue of the European Journal of Immunology shows that the putative serine protease Prss16 affects positive selection of a subset of CD4(+) T cells. A survey of chordate genomes indicates that the Prss16 gene emerged in vertebrates as a paralogue of evolutionarily older members of the serine carboxypeptidase 28 family; thus, Prss16 is not associated with the appearance of the adaptive immune system and the thymus in jawed vertebrates. Nevertheless, it appears that Prss16 has later evolved as an essential contributor to the MHC class II peptide/ligand repertoire.
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- Thomas Boehm
- Department of Developmental Immunology, Max-Planck-Institute of Immunobiology, Stuebeweg, Freiburg, Germany.
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Cupedo T, Crellin NK, Papazian N, Rombouts EJ, Weijer K, Grogan JL, Fibbe WE, Cornelissen JJ, Spits H. Human fetal lymphoid tissue-inducer cells are interleukin 17-producing precursors to RORC+ CD127+ natural killer-like cells. Nat Immunol 2009; 10:66-74. [PMID: 19029905 DOI: 10.1038/ni.1668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 535] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2008] [Accepted: 09/26/2008] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The human body contains over 500 individual lymph nodes, yet the biology of their formation is poorly understood. Here we identify human lymphoid tissue-inducer cells (LTi cells) as lineage-negative RORC+ CD127+ cells with the functional ability to interact with mesenchymal cells through lymphotoxin and tumor necrosis factor. Human LTi cells were committed natural killer (NK) cell precursors that produced interleukin 17 (IL-17) and IL-22. In vitro, LTi cells gave rise to RORC+ CD127+ NK cells that retained the ability to produce IL-17 and IL-22. Postnatally, similar populations of LTi cell-like cells and RORC+ CD127+ NK cells were present in tonsils, and both secreted IL-17 and IL-22 but no interferon-gamma. Our data indicate that lymph node organogenesis is controlled by an NK cell precursor population with adaptive immune features and demonstrate a previously unappreciated link between the innate and adaptive immune systems.
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- Tom Cupedo
- Department of Hematology, Erasmus University Medical Center, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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Andersen KG, Butcher T, Betz AG. Specific immunosuppression with inducible Foxp3-transduced polyclonal T cells. PLoS Biol 2008; 6:e276. [PMID: 18998771 PMCID: PMC2581628 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2008] [Accepted: 09/29/2008] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Forkhead box p3 (Foxp3)-expressing regulatory T cells are key mediators of peripheral tolerance suppressing undesirable immune responses. Ectopic expression of Foxp3 confers regulatory T cell phenotype to conventional T cells, lending itself to therapeutic use in the prevention of autoimmunity and transplant rejection. Here, we show that adoptive transfer of polyclonal, wild-type T cells transduced with an inducible form of Foxp3 (iFoxp3) can be used to suppress immune responses on demand. In contrast to Foxp3-transduced cells, iFoxp3-transduced cells home "correctly" into secondary lymphoid organs, where they expand and participate in immune responses. Upon induction of iFoxp3, the cells assume regulatory T cell phenotype and start to suppress the response they initially partook in without causing systemic immunosuppression. We used this approach to suppress collagen-induced arthritis, in which conventional Foxp3-transduced cells failed to show any effect. This provides us with a generally applicable strategy to specifically halt immune responses on demand without prior knowledge of the antigens involved.
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- Kristian G Andersen
- Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Bromley SK, Mempel TR, Luster AD. Orchestrating the orchestrators: chemokines in control of T cell traffic. Nat Immunol 2008; 9:970-80. [PMID: 18711434 DOI: 10.1038/ni.f.213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 446] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The understanding of how chemokines orchestrate the trafficking and activity of immune cells has increased considerably. So far, over 50 chemokines and 20 chemokine receptors have been identified. Detailed analyses have demonstrated the function of chemokine receptors on T cell subsets, the temporal and spatial expression patterns of chemokines in vivo and the phenotypes of animals genetically deficient in one component or several components of the chemokine-chemokine receptor system. New microscopy modalities for studying the influence of chemokines on the migratory activity of T cells in the lymph node have also brought new insights. Here we review such advances with particular emphasis on control of the migration of T cell subsets in lymph nodes and in peripheral tissues in homeostasis and inflammation.
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- Shannon K Bromley
- Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA
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- Bruno Kyewski
- Division of Developmental Immunology, Tumor Immunology Program, German Cancer Research Center, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, Heidelberg, D-69120 Germany.
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Hla T, Venkataraman K, Michaud J. The vascular S1P gradient-cellular sources and biological significance. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2008; 1781:477-82. [PMID: 18674637 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2008.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2008] [Revised: 07/14/2008] [Accepted: 07/18/2008] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P), a product of sphingomyelin metabolism, is enriched in the circulatory system whereas it is estimated to be much lower in interstitial fluids of tissues. This concentration gradient, termed the vascular S1P gradient appears to form as a result of substrate availability and the action of metabolic enzymes. S1P levels in blood and lymph are estimated to be in the muM range. In the immune system, the S1P gradient is needed as a spatial cue for lymphocyte and hematopoietic cell trafficking. During inflammatory reactions in which enhanced vascular permeability occurs, a burst of S1P becomes available to its receptors in the extravascular compartment, which likely contributes to the tissue reactions. Thus, the presence of the vascular S1P gradient is thought to contribute to physiological and pathological conditions. From an evolutionary perspective, S1P receptors may have co-evolved with the advent of a closed vascular system and the trafficking paradigms for hematopoietic cells to navigate in and out of the vascular system.
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- Timothy Hla
- Center for Vascular Biology, Department of Cell Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT 06001, USA.
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Multiple sclerosis is a common neurological disorder that represents a significant source of disability. B cells have recently emerged as a novel therapeutic target for multiple sclerosis. The natural development of B cells is characterized by an antigen-independent phase that occurs in the bone marrow and an antigen-dependent phase that takes place in the peripheral lymphoid tissue. The stage of B-cell development can be identified by the presence of specific cell surface markers. Checkpoints are in place to prevent self-reactive B cells from further development and activation. Some self-reactive B cells are able to escape these checkpoints, resulting in a loss of tolerance. B cells may contribute to systemic autoimmunity and the development of autoimmune disease via cytokine production, antigen presentation, and complement activation. In addition, B cells may trigger autoimmune disease via molecular mimicry, which occurs when a single B-cell receptor recognizes both a non-self antigen molecule and a self-molecule. Accumulating data suggest that ectopic proliferation of B cells in the central nervous system may also play a role. Further research is needed to elucidate the pathology of B cells and their role in central nervous system autoimmune diseases, including multiple sclerosis.
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- Nancy L Monson
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, USA.
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The epithelial architecture of the thymus fosters growth, differentiation, and T cell receptor repertoire selection of large numbers of immature T cells that continuously feed the mature peripheral T cell pool. Failure to build or to maintain a proper thymus structure can lead to defects ranging from immunodeficiency to autoimmunity. There has been long-standing interest in unraveling the cellular and molecular basis of thymus organogenesis. Earlier studies gave important morphological clues on thymus development. More recent cell biological and genetic approaches yielded new and conclusive insights regarding the germ layer origin of the epithelium and the composition of the medulla as a mosaic of clonally derived islets. The existence of epithelial progenitors common for cortex and medulla with the capacity for forming functional thymus after birth has been uncovered. In addition to the thymus in the chest, mice can have a cervical thymus that is small, but functional, and produces T cells only after birth. It will be important to elucidate the pathways from putative thymus stem cells to mature thymus epithelial cells, and the properties and regulation of these pathways from ontogeny to thymus involution.
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Geenen V. [Hormonal targets of the autoimmune response]. ANNALES D'ENDOCRINOLOGIE 2008; 69:107-111. [PMID: 18417093 DOI: 10.1016/j.ando.2008.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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- V Geenen
- Centre d'immunologie, institut de pathologie, CHU-B23, université de Liège, 4000 Liège-Sart Tilman, Belgium.
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Boehm T. Thymus development and function. Curr Opin Immunol 2008; 20:178-84. [DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2008.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2007] [Accepted: 03/11/2008] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Hadidi S, Glenney GW, Welch TJ, Silverstein JT, Wiens GD. Spleen Size Predicts Resistance of Rainbow Trout toFlavobacterium psychrophilumChallenge. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2008; 180:4156-65. [PMID: 18322227 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.180.6.4156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- Sima Hadidi
- US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, National Center for Cool and Cold Water Aquaculture, Kearneysville, WV 25430, USA
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Blais MÈ, Brochu S, Giroux M, Bélanger MP, Dulude G, Sékaly RP, Perreault C. Why T Cells of Thymic Versus Extrathymic Origin Are Functionally Different. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2008; 180:2299-312. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.180.4.2299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Alder MN, Herrin BR, Sadlonova A, Stockard CR, Grizzle WE, Gartland LA, Gartland GL, Boydston JA, Turnbough CL, Cooper MD. Antibody responses of variable lymphocyte receptors in the lamprey. Nat Immunol 2008; 9:319-27. [DOI: 10.1038/ni1562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2007] [Accepted: 01/09/2008] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Yang M, Zhou H. Grass carp transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-beta 1): molecular cloning, tissue distribution and immunobiological activity in teleost peripheral blood lymphocytes. Mol Immunol 2007; 45:1792-8. [PMID: 17980429 DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2007.09.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2007] [Revised: 09/23/2007] [Accepted: 09/27/2007] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-beta 1) is a potent regulatory cytokine with pleiotropic effects on the immune system. To examine the role of TGF-beta 1 in fish immunity, the full-length cDNA of grass carp TGF-beta 1 was isolated from grass carp spleen. The open reading frame of grass carp TGF-beta1, 1134 bp in length, encodes a 377 amino acid protein. Tissue distribution study by RT-PCR showed TGF-beta 1 mRNA was predominantly expressed in the thymus, head kidney and spleen in grass carp tissues. Moreover, the time-course effect of TGF-beta 1 on peripheral blood lymphocyte proliferation in response to mitogens was evaluated in grass carp. Interestingly, TGF-beta1 induced PBL proliferation while it significantly blocked phytohemagglutinin- or lipopolysaccharide-stimulated PBL proliferation, and TGF-beta 1 mimicked the stimulatory effects of lipopolysaccharide on grass carp MHC I mRNA expression. These results, for the first time, strongly suggest that TGF-beta 1 plays a functional role in lymphocyte proliferation in fish.
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- Mu Yang
- School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, People's Republic of China
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MHC-encoded molecules govern adaptive immune responses by presenting peptides to T cell receptors (TCRs). Based on TCR-MHC crystal structures, we revisit the extent of TCR binding degeneracy, a property with important biological consequences because the diversity of TCR ligands that can be encountered exceeds the number of T cell clones present in a person at any one time. We also discuss whether the approximate diagonal binding of TCR on MHC molecules is due to an intrinsic property of the TCR variable regions, or results from the action of the CD4 and CD8 coreceptors during intrathymic T cell selection. Finally, we discuss how MHC restriction of antigen recognition might have emerged during evolution.
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- Catherine Mazza
- Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Université de la Méditerranée, Case 906, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France
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