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Ocampo CL, Gómez-Verduzco G, Tapia-Perez G, Gutierrez OL, Sumano LH. Effects of Glycyrrhizic Acid on Productive and Immune Parameters of Broilers. BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF POULTRY SCIENCE 2016. [DOI: 10.1590/1806-9061-2015-0135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- CL Ocampo
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
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- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
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Approximately 500 million years ago, two types of recombinatorial adaptive immune systems (AISs) arose in vertebrates. The jawed vertebrates diversify their repertoire of immunoglobulin domain-based T and B cell antigen receptors mainly through the rearrangement of V(D)J gene segments and somatic hypermutation, but none of the fundamental AIS recognition elements in jawed vertebrates have been found in jawless vertebrates. Instead, the AIS of jawless vertebrates is based on variable lymphocyte receptors (VLRs) that are generated through recombinatorial usage of a large panel of highly diverse leucine-rich-repeat (LRR) sequences. Whereas the appearance of transposon-like, recombination-activating genes contributed uniquely to the origin of the AIS in jawed vertebrates, the use of activation-induced cytidine deaminase for receptor diversification is common to both the jawed and jawless vertebrates. Despite these differences in anticipatory receptor construction, the basic AIS design featuring two interactive T and B lymphocyte arms apparently evolved in an ancestor of jawed and jawless vertebrates within the context of preexisting innate immunity and has been maintained since as a consequence of powerful and enduring selection, most probably for pathogen defense purposes.
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- Masayuki Hirano
- Emory Vaccine Center, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Cohn M. The evolutionary context for a self-nonself discrimination. Cell Mol Life Sci 2010; 67:2851-62. [PMID: 20585970 PMCID: PMC2956437 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-010-0438-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2010] [Accepted: 06/10/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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This essay was written to illustrate how one might think about the immune system. The formulation of valid theories is the basic component of how-to-think because the reduction of large and complex data sets by the use of logic into a succinct model with predictability and explanatory power, is the only way that we have to arrive at "understanding". Whether it is to achieve effective manipulation of the system or for pure pleasure, "understanding" is a universally agreed upon goal. It is in the nature of science that theories are there to be disproven. An experimentally disproven theory is a successful one. As they fail experimental test one by one, we end up with a default theory, that is, one that has yet to fail. Here, using the self-nonself discrimination as an example, how-to-think as I see it, will be illustrated.
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- Melvin Cohn
- Conceptual Immunology Group, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.
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Cohn M. A hypothesis accounting for the paradoxical expression of the D gene segment in the BCR and the TCR. Eur J Immunol 2008; 38:1779-87. [PMID: 18546143 PMCID: PMC2682786 DOI: 10.1002/eji.200738089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The D gene segment expressed in both the TCR and the BCR has a challenging behavior that begs interpretation. It is incorporated in three reading frames in the rearranged transcription unit but is expressed in antigen-selected cells in a preferred frame. Why was it so important to waste 2/3 of newborn cells? The hypothesis is presented that the D region is framework playing a role in both the TCR and the BCR by determining whether a signal is transmitted to the cell upon interaction with a cognate ligand. This assumption operates in determining haplotype exclusion for the BCR and in regulating the signaling orientation for the TCR. Relevant data as well as a definitive experiment challenging the validity of this hypothesis, are discussed.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibody Diversity/genetics
- Antibody Diversity/immunology
- Biological Evolution
- Gene Expression
- Gene Rearrangement, alpha-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor
- Gene Rearrangement, beta-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor
- Genes, T-Cell Receptor alpha
- Genes, T-Cell Receptor beta
- Humans
- Immunoglobulins/genetics
- Immunoglobulins/immunology
- Reading Frames
- Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/immunology
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Affiliation(s)
- Melvin Cohn
- Conceptual Immunology Group, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
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Noormohammadi AH. Role of phenotypic diversity in pathogenesis of avian mycoplasmosis. Avian Pathol 2007; 36:439-44. [DOI: 10.1080/03079450701687078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Ratcliffe MJH. Antibodies, immunoglobulin genes and the bursa of Fabricius in chicken B cell development. DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY 2006; 30:101-18. [PMID: 16139886 DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2005.06.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The bursa of Fabricius is critical for the normal development of B lymphocytes in birds. It is productively colonized during embryonic life by a limited number of B cell precursors that have undergone the immunoglobulin gene rearrangements required for expression of cell surface immunoglobulin. Immunoglobulin gene rearrangement occurs in the absence of terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase and generates minimal antibody diversity. In addition, observations that immunoglobulin heavy and light chain variable gene rearrangement occur at the same time and that allelic exclusion of immunoglobulin expression is regulated at the level of variable region gene rearrangement provide a striking contrast to rodent and primate models of immunoglobulin gene assembly. Following productive colonization of the bursa, developing B cells undergo rapid proliferation and the immunoglobulin V region genes that generate the specificity of the B cell surface immunoglobulin receptor undergo diversification. Immunoglobulin diversity in birds is generated by somatic gene conversion events in which sequences derived from upstream families of pseudogenes replace homologous sequences in unique and functionally rearranged immunoglobulin heavy and light chain variable region genes. This mechanism is distinct from and much more efficient than mechanisms of antibody diversification seen in rodents and primates. While the bursal microenvironment is not required for immunoglobulin gene rearrangement and expression, it is essential for the generation of antibody diversity by gene conversion. Following hatch, gut derived antigens are taken up by the bursa. While bursal development prior to hatch occurs in the absence of exogenous antigen, chicken B cell development after hatch may therefore be influenced by the presence of environmental antigen. This review focuses on the differences between B cell development in the chicken as compared to rodent and primate models.
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- Michael J H Ratcliffe
- Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Schade R, Calzado EG, Sarmiento R, Chacana PA, Porankiewicz-Asplund J, Terzolo HR. Chicken egg yolk antibodies (IgY-technology): a review of progress in production and use in research and human and veterinary medicine. Altern Lab Anim 2005; 33:129-54. [PMID: 16180988 DOI: 10.1177/026119290503300208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 200] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The production of antibodies (Abs) in chickens and the extraction of specific Abs from egg yolk (IgY Abs) are increasingly attracting the interest of the scientific community, as demonstrated by the significant growth of the IgY literature. This review offers detailed and comprehensive information about IgY-technology, including: a) possibilities for hen keeping in accordance with the Three Rs principles; b) new insights into the IgY transfer mechanism from blood to yolk as a biological basis for the technology; c) the comparative characteristics of IgY Abs and IgG Abs; d) the high efficacy of the technique, in view of the extraordinary amount of IgY Ab produced by one hen in one year (between 20 g and 40 g IgY in total); e) comparisons between the efficacies of IgY Abs and IgG Abs (rabbit, sheep, mouse) in several immunological assays; f) immunisation protocols, as well as the most commonly used IgY-extraction procedures; g) new possibilities for application in human and veterinary medicine, including strategies for the treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection or fatal intestinal diseases in children, particularly in poor countries, for reducing the use of antibiotics, and, in Asia and South America, for producing Abs against snake, spider and scorpion venoms; and h) the use of IgY Abs in various fields of research, also taking into consideration recent developments in South America (particularly Argentina and Cuba) and in Asia.
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- Rüdiger Schade
- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical Faculty (Charité) of Humboldt University, Dorotheenstrasse 94, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
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The study of immunoglobulin genes in non-mouse and non-human models has shown that different vertebrate groups have evolved distinct methods of generating antibody diversity. By contrast, the development of T cells in the thymus is quite similar in all of the species that have been examined. The three mechanisms by which B cells uniquely modify their immunoglobulin genes -- somatic hypermutation, gene conversion and class switching -- are increasingly believed to share some fundamental mechanisms, which studies in different vertebrate groups have helped (and will continue to help) to resolve. When these mechanisms are better understood, we should be able to look to the constitutive pathways from which they have evolved and perhaps determine whether the rearrangement of variable, diversity and joining antibody gene segments -- V(D)J recombination -- was superimposed on an existing adaptive immune system.
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- Martin F Flajnik
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA.
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Sayegh CE, Demaries SL, Iacampo S, Ratcliffe MJ. Development of B cells expressing surface immunoglobulin molecules that lack V(D)J-encoded determinants in the avian embryo bursa of fabricius. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999; 96:10806-11. [PMID: 10485907 PMCID: PMC17964 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.19.10806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Immunoglobulin gene rearrangement in avian B cell precursors generates surface Ig receptors of limited diversity. It has been proposed that specificities encoded by these receptors play a critical role in B lineage development by recognizing endogenous ligands within the bursa of Fabricius. To address this issue directly we have introduced a truncated surface IgM, lacking variable region domains, into developing B precursors by retroviral gene transfer in vivo. Cells expressing this truncated receptor lack endogenous surface IgM, and the low level of endogenous Ig rearrangements that have occurred within this population of cells has not been selected for having a productive reading frame. Such cells proliferate rapidly within bursal epithelial buds of normal morphology. In addition, despite reduced levels of endogenous light chain rearrangement, those light chain rearrangements that have occurred have undergone variable region diversification by gene conversion. Therefore, although surface expression of an Ig receptor is required for bursal colonization and the induction of gene conversion, the specificity encoded by the prediversified receptor is irrelevant and, consequently, there is no obligate ligand for V(D)J-encoded determinants of prediversified avian cell surface IgM receptor.
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- C E Sayegh
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, 3775 University Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2B4
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Pospisil R, Mage RG. Rabbit appendix: a site of development and selection of the B cell repertoire. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1998; 229:59-70. [PMID: 9479848 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-71984-4_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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As early as 1963, it was proposed that the rabbit appendix was a homologue of the chicken bursa of Fabricius (ARCHER et al. 1963). The finding that the young rabbit appendix was thymus independent contributed to the concept of central primary lymphoid tissue. Today we know that appendix is a site that generates the high copy number primary repertoire through diversification of rearranged VH genes by gene conversion-like and somatic hypermutation mechanisms. Thus the appendix of young rabbits functions as a mammalian bursal equivalent. In the appendix, newly generated B cells also undergo selection processes involving self and foreign antigens and superantigens. Preferential expansion and survival of B cells in normal and mutant ali rabbits based on FR1 and FR3 expression may involve "superantigen"-like interactions with endogenous and exogenous ligands. One endogenous ligand appears to be CD5. Additional ligands may be produced by gut flora. Further studies in the rabbit model are needed to determine the fates of emigrants from primary GALT, their sites of postulated self-renewal in the periphery, and the nature of secondary diversification in secondary germinal centers where populations of B lymphocyte memory cells may develop. These data may also be helpful in understanding how the repertoire of human B cells is formed and how this repertoire might be manipulated for clinical benefit.
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- R Pospisil
- Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1892, USA
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Sehgal D, Mage RG, Schiaffella E. VH Mutant Rabbits Lacking the VH1a2 Gene Develop a2+ B Cells in the Appendix by Gene Conversion-Like Alteration of a Rearranged VH4 Gene. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.160.3.1246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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We investigated the molecular basis for the appearance of VHa2 allotype-bearing B cells in mutant Alicia rabbits. The mutation arose in an a2 rabbit; mutants exhibit altered expression of VH genes because of a small deletion encompassing VH1a2, the 3′-most gene in the VH locus. The VH1 gene is the major source of VHa allotype because this gene is preferentially rearranged in normal rabbits. In young homozygous ali/ali animals, the levels of a2 molecules found in the serum increase with age. In adult ali/ali rabbits, 20 to 50% of serum Igs and B cells bear a2 allotypic determinants. Previous studies suggested that positive selection results in expansion of a2 allotype-bearing B cells in the appendix of young mutant ali/ali rabbits. We separated appendix cells from a 6-wk-old Alicia rabbit by FACS based on the expression of surface IgM and a2 allotype. The VDJ portion of the expressed Ig mRNA was amplified from the IgM+ a2+ and IgM+ a2− populations by reverse transcriptase-PCR. The cDNAs from both populations were cloned and sequenced. Analysis of these sequences suggested that, in a2+ B cells, the first D proximal functional gene in Alicia rabbits, VH4a2, rearranged and was altered further by a gene conversion-like mechanism. Upstream VH genes were identified as potential gene sequence donors; VH9 was found to be the most frequently used gene donor. Among the a2− B cells, y33 was the most frequently rearranged gene.
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- Devinder Sehgal
- Molecular Immunogenetics Section, Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Molecular Immunogenetics Section, Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Molecular Immunogenetics Section, Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Raaphorst FM, Raman CS, Nall BT, Teale JM. Molecular mechanisms governing reading frame choice of immunoglobulin diversity genes. IMMUNOLOGY TODAY 1997; 18:37-43. [PMID: 9018973 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-5699(97)80013-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- F M Raaphorst
- University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 78284, USA
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Weinstein PD, Anderson AO, Mage RG. Rabbit IgH sequences in appendix germinal centers: VH diversification by gene conversion-like and hypermutation mechanisms. Immunity 1994; 1:647-59. [PMID: 7600292 DOI: 10.1016/1074-7613(94)90036-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Although the rabbit IgH locus contains approximately 100 VH genes, the majority of B cells rearrange VH1. To produce a primary repertoire containing a sufficient number of protective antibodies, rearranged VH1-DH-JH sequences may diversify within rabbit B cells in an organ that functions like a chicken bursa, sheep ileal Peyer's patch, or both. It was suggested many years ago that the rabbit appendix could be a bursal equivalent. To reexamine this possibility, we analyzed rearranged heavy chain variable region sequences in B cells from light and dark zones of appendix germinal centers from 6-week-old rabbits. Our findings indicate that antibody diversification occurs by gene conversion-like and somatic hypermutation mechanisms in appendix germinal centers of young rabbits.
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- P D Weinstein
- Applied Research Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
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Reynaud CA, Bertocci B, Dahan A, Weill JC. Formation of the chicken B-cell repertoire: ontogenesis, regulation of Ig gene rearrangement, and diversification by gene conversion. Adv Immunol 1994; 57:353-78. [PMID: 7872160 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2776(08)60676-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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