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Evolutionary Biology
Federico G. Hoffmann, Jay F. Storz, Shigehiro Kuraku, Michael W. Vandewege, Juan C. Opazo
Summary: Globin-X (GbX) is a mysterious member of the vertebrate globin gene family, with potential roles in cellular signaling or protection against lipid oxidation. Research integrates bioinformatics, synteny, and phylogenetic analyses to study the diversity of GbX genes in different species and the impact of whole-genome duplications on vertebrate genomes.
GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
Review
Genetics & Heredity
Yoichi Sutoh, Masanori Kasahara
Summary: Jawless vertebrates and jawed vertebrates share essential features of lymphocyte-based adaptive immunity, despite having structurally unrelated antigen receptors. Both types of vertebrates express a single type of receptor on each lymphocyte, undergo clonal expansion of antigen-stimulated lymphocytes, and exhibit the dichotomy of cellular and humoral immunity. This suggests that the backbone of the adaptive immune system was established in a common ancestor of all vertebrates and that jawless vertebrates have retained the prototype of vertebrate adaptive immunity.
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Genetics & Heredity
Yanping Li, Yunyun Lv, Chao Bian, Xinxin You, Qiong Shi
Summary: The study conducted a comprehensive examination of MTNRs in vertebrates through comparative genome mining. The potential expansions of mtnr1a and mtnr1b in zebrafish were also identified in other Cyprinifomes. This expansion was observed to cluster into a primitive position of the Actinopterygii, resulting from teleost-specific genome duplication.
Review
Immunology
Daan K. J. Pieren, Mardi C. Boer, Jelle de Wit
Summary: Respiratory infectious diseases encountered early in life can be life-threatening for neonates due to their immature immune system. Vaccinations have significantly reduced childhood mortality, but infants require multiple doses to develop protective immunity and not all vaccines are equally effective in young age. Recent studies have shown that the early life adaptive immune system possesses strong innate-like effector function and is regulated by a tolerogenic counterpart. This shift from innate-like to immune memory formation may explain the different efficacy of infant vaccination during immune development. The presence of innate-like and tolerogenic features of the immune system can be used as a biomarker to improve vaccination strategies for respiratory and other infections in early life.
FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Ecology
Michal Vinkler, Steven R. Fiddaman, Martin Tesicky, Emily A. O'Connor, Anna E. Savage, Tobias L. Lenz, Adrian L. Smith, Jim Kaufman, Daniel I. Bolnick, Charli S. Davies, Neira Dedic, Andrew S. Flies, M. Mercedes Gomez Samblas, Amberleigh E. Henschen, Karel Novak, Gemma Palomar, Nynke Raven, Kalifa Samake, Joel Slade, Nithya Kuttiyarthu Veetil, Eleni Voukali, Jacob Hoglund, David S. Richardson, Helena Westerdahl
Summary: Driven by co-evolution with pathogens, host immunity continuously adapts to optimize defence against pathogens within a given environment. Recent advances in genetics, genomics and transcriptomics have enabled a more detailed investigation into how immunogenetic variation shapes the diversity of immune responses seen across domestic and wild animal species. However, a deeper understanding of the diverse molecular mechanisms that shape immunity within and among species is still needed to gain insight into-and generate evolutionary hypotheses on-the ultimate drivers of immunological differences.
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(2023)
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Immunology
Li-guo Ding, Guang-kun Han, Xin-you Wang, Ru-han Sun, Yong-yao Yu, Zhen Xu
Summary: This study investigated the composition of the teleost gallbladder microbiota and its potential role in mucosal immunity. The results showed that the gallbladder microbiome was similar to the gut microbiota. Infection induced inflammation and disrupted microbial homeostasis in the gallbladder. Beneficial bacteria from the Lactobacillales order increased in abundance in the bile microbial community, while the structure of the Mycoplasmatales order in the gut microbial community changed significantly.
FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
(2022)
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Evolutionary Biology
Li Zhang, Jonathan J. Park, Matthew B. Dong, Deanna Arsala, Shengqian Xia, Jianhai Chen, Dylan Sosa, Jared E. Atlas, Manyuan Long, Sidi Chen
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GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2023)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Nicolas Leurs, Camille Martinand-Mari, Sylvain Marcellini, Melanie Debiais-Thibaud
Summary: A scpp gene present in elasmobranchs (sharks and rays) is remarkably similar to the osteichthyan scpp members, but originated independently. In catsharks, this gene is coexpressed with sparc-L and fam20 degrees C, supporting a single origin for the hypermineralized outer odontode layer.
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2022)
Review
Immunology
Gertraud Orend, Richard P. Tucker
Summary: Tenascin-C plays important roles in immunity, interacting with Toll-like receptor 4, integrin alpha 9 beta 1, and chemokines. While tenascins predate the appearance of adaptive immunity, the first tenascin-C appears to have evolved in early chordate lineages. Adaptive immunity evolved independently in jawless and jawed vertebrates, with the former using variable lymphocyte receptors and the latter using immunoglobulins.
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(2021)
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Chen Zhang, Zhao Zhao, Peng-Qi Zhang, Sheng Guo, Bin Zhu
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Juan C. Opazo, Michael W. Vandewege, Federico G. Hoffmann, Kattina Zavala, Catalina Melendez, Charlotte Luchsinger, Viviana A. Cavieres, Luis Vargas-Chacoff, Francisco J. Morera, Patricia Burgos, Cheril Tapia-Rojas, Gonzalo A. Mardones
Summary: Studying the evolutionary history of gene families is important for understanding gene origin, evolution, and their implications for functional studies. The sirtuin gene family, involved in aging-related functions, has a complex duplicative history, but our results provide a well-resolved phylogeny and shed light on the repertoire of sirtuin genes among vertebrates. We identified a new member (SIRT3.2) that was lost in amniotes but retained in other jawed vertebrates, and its experimental analysis revealed its mitochondrial location and deacetylase activity similar to mammalian SIRT3.
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yuesong Hu, Yuxin Duan, Khalid Salaita
Summary: Immune recognition occurs when immune cells and target cells physically touch at specialized cell-cell junctions. Molecular forces generated by the cellular cytoskeleton play crucial roles in immune cell activation and responses. This minireview explores the development of DNA-based tension sensors for mapping and quantifying mechanical forces experienced by immunoreceptors, as well as the manipulation of mechanotransduction using DNA to understand how mechanical forces regulate antigen discrimination and receptor signaling.
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(2023)
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Yao Zhang, Jianpeng Xie, Yang Liu, Chaoqun Li, Jing Xiao, Hongliang Ma, Jie Zhou
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(2022)
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Aude Blanchard, Mikhail Abramov, Camille Hassan, Philippe Marliere, Piet Herdewijn, Valerie Pezo
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Yang Mao, Feng Shao, Qingyuan Zhao, Zuogang Peng
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Anish M. S. Shrestha, Martin C. Frith, Kiyoshi Asai, Hugues Richard
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Taichi Hagio, Shun Sakuraba, Junichi Iwakiri, Ryota Mori, Kiyoshi Asai
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Kensuke Ninomiya, Shungo Adachi, Tohru Natsume, Junichi Iwakiri, Goro Terai, Kiyoshi Asai, Tetsuro Hirose
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Shen Tian, Goro Terai, Yoshiaki Kobayashi, Yasuaki Kimura, Hiroshi Abe, Kiyoshi Asai, Kumiko Ui-Tei
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Yoichiro Ito, Goro Terai, Misa Ishigami, Noriko Hashiba, Yasuyuki Nakamura, Takahiro Bamba, Ryota Kumokita, Tomohisa Hasunuma, Kiyoshi Asai, Jun Ishii, Akihiko Kondo
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Masaki Tagashira, Kiyoshi Asai
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Goro Terai, Kiyoshi Asai
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Yukiteru Ono, Michiaki Hamada, Kiyoshi Asai
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(2022)
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