Innate immunity in the simplest animals – placozoans

Placozoa

(2018) Bernd Schierwater et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genetic and molecular basis of the immune system in the brachiopod Lingula anatina

(2018) Marco Gerdol et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

A Completely Reimplemented MPI Bioinformatics Toolkit with a New HHpred Server at its Core

(2018) Lukas Zimmermann et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Trichoplax genomes reveal profound admixture and suggest stable wild populations without bisexual reproduction

(2018) Kai Kamm et al.   Scientific Reports

Fast Genome-Wide Functional Annotation through Orthology Assignment by eggNOG-Mapper

(2017) Jaime Huerta-Cepas et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Evolutionary Origins of cGAS-STING Signaling

(2017) Shally R. Margolis et al.   TRENDS IN IMMUNOLOGY

TNT version 1.5, including a full implementation of phylogenetic morphometrics

(2016) Pablo A. Goloboff et al.   CLADISTICS

The Role of Complement in Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Symbiosis and Immune Challenge in the Sea Anemone Aiptasia pallida

(2016) Angela Z. Poole et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The scavenger receptor repertoire in six cnidarian species and its putative role in cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis

(2016) Emilie F. Neubauer et al.   PeerJ

What Hydra Has to Say About the Role and Origin of Symbiotic Interactions

(2016) Thomas C. G. Bosch   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Repurposed Transcriptomic Data Facilitate Discovery of Innate Immunity Toll-Like Receptor (TLR) Genes Across Lophotrochozoa

(2016) Kenneth M. Halanych et al.   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

IL-17 signaling components in bivalves: Comparative sequence analysis and involvement in the immune responses

(2015) Umberto Rosani et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Expression and function analysis of two naturally truncated MyD88 variants in the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas

(2015) Fengjiao Xu et al.   FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY

Recognition of microbial glycans by human intelectin-1

(2015) Darryl A Wesener et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The genome ofAiptasia, a sea anemone model for coral symbiosis

(2015) Sebastian Baumgarten et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Recognition of microbial glycans by human intelectin-1

(2015) Darryl A Wesener et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

InterProScan 5: genome-scale protein function classification

(2014) P. Jones et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Novel Cell Types, Neurosecretory Cells, and Body Plan of the Early-Diverging Metazoan Trichoplax adhaerens

(2014) Carolyn L. Smith et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

 -Arrestins - new players in Notch and GPCR signaling pathways in mammals

(2014) L. Puca et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Comparative genomic and phylogenetic analyses of the intelectin gene family: Implications for their origin and evolution

(2013) Jie Yan et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Bacterial DNA Sifted from the Trichoplax adhaerens (Animalia: Placozoa) Genome Project Reveals a Putative Rickettsial Endosymbiont

(2013) Timothy Driscoll et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Innate immune recognition of the microbiota promotes host-microbial symbiosis

(2013) Hiutung Chu et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

NF- B, the first quarter-century: remarkable progress and outstanding questions

(2012) M. S. Hayden et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

The Complex NOD-Like Receptor Repertoire of the Coral Acropora digitifera Includes Novel Domain Combinations

(2012) Mayuko Hamada et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Evolution and Origin of Animal Toll-Like Receptor Signaling Pathway Revealed by Network-Level Molecular Evolutionary Analyses

(2012) Xiaojun Song et al.   PLoS One

MyD88-deficient Hydra reveal an ancient function of TLR signaling in sensing bacterial colonizers

(2012) S. Franzenburg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Regulation of GPCR activity, trafficking and localization by GPCR-interacting proteins

(2011) Ana C Magalhaes et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY

Characterization of bbtTICAM from amphioxus suggests the emergence of a MyD88-independent pathway in basal chordates

(2011) Manyi Yang et al.   CELL RESEARCH

The C1q domain containing proteins of the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis: A widespread and diverse family of immune-related molecules

(2011) Marco Gerdol et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

The Evolution and Regulation of the Mucosal Immune Complexity in the Basal Chordate Amphioxus

(2011) S. Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

SignalP 4.0: discriminating signal peptides from transmembrane regions

(2011) Thomas Nordahl Petersen et al.   NATURE METHODS

Crystal Structure of Full-Length Apaf-1: How the Death Signal Is Relayed in the Mitochondrial Pathway of Apoptosis

(2011) Thomas Frank Reubold et al.   STRUCTURE

Intracellular Rickettsiales: Insights into manipulators of eukaryotic cells

(2011) Aurélie Renvoisé et al.   TRENDS IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE

The Primary Role of Fibrinogen-Related Proteins in Invertebrates Is Defense, Not Coagulation

(2010) Patrick C. Hanington et al.   Journal of Innate Immunity

Defining the Origins of the NOD-Like Receptor System at the Base of Animal Evolution

(2010) C. Lange et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The  -proteobacteria: the Darwin finches of the bacterial world

(2009) T. J.G. Ettema et al.   Biology Letters

BLAST+: architecture and applications

(2009) Christiam Camacho et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

C-type lectins and phagocytosis

(2009) Ann M. Kerrigan et al.   IMMUNOBIOLOGY

The amphioxus (Branchiostoma floridae) genome contains a highly diversified set of G protein-coupled receptors

(2008) Karl JV Nordström et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The transcription factor NF-κB in the demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica: insights on the evolutionary origin of the Rel homology domain

(2008) Marie Gauthier et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Uncovering the evolutionary history of innate immunity: The simple metazoan Hydra uses epithelial cells for host defence

(2008) Thomas C.G. Bosch et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Genomic analysis of the immune gene repertoire of amphioxus reveals extraordinary innate complexity and diversity

(2008) S. Huang et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The Trichoplax genome and the nature of placozoans

(2008) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE