1. Restricting nonclassical MHC genes coevolve with TRAV genes used by innate-like T cells in mammals
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Luc Jouneau, Marie-Paule Lefranc, Luc Teyton, Stanislas Mondot, Olivier Lantz, Pierre Boudinot, ProdInra, Migration, Unité de recherche Virologie et Immunologie Moléculaires (VIM (UR 0892)), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Paris Saclay (COmUE), Immunité et cancer (U932), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut Curie [Paris]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute [La Jolla, San Diego], Institut de génétique humaine (IGH), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Gustave Roussy (IGR), Laboratoire d'Immunologie Clinique, Institut Curie [Paris], Centre d'Investigation Clinique en Biotherapie des cancers (CIC 1428 , CBT 507 ), Institut Gustave Roussy (IGR)-Institut Curie [Paris]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Scripps Research Institute, and Institut Gustave Roussy (IGR)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
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0301 basic medicine ,Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta ,T-Lymphocytes ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Complementarity determining region ,Major histocompatibility complex ,Evolution, Molecular ,03 medical and health sciences ,Negative selection ,0302 clinical medicine ,evolution ,Animals ,mammals ,Gene ,Genetics ,Multidisciplinary ,biology ,Histocompatibility Antigens Class I ,T-cell receptor ,RNA ,Natural killer T cell ,Complementarity Determining Regions ,[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio] ,030104 developmental biology ,PNAS Plus ,CD1D ,Cats ,biology.protein ,Rabbits ,MHC ,MAIT ,TCR ,030215 immunology - Abstract
International audience; Whereas major histocompatibility class-1 (MH1) proteins present peptides to T cells displaying a large T-cell receptor (TR) repertoire, MH1Like proteins, such as CD1D and MR1, present glycolipids and microbial riboflavin precursor derivatives, respectively, to T cells expressing invariant TR-α (iTRA) chains. The groove of such MH1Like, as well as iTRA chains used by mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) and natural killer T (NKT) cells, respectively, may result from a coevolution under particular selection pressures. Herein, we investigated the evolutionary patterns of the iTRA of MAIT and NKT cells and restricting MH1Like proteins: MR1 appeared 170 Mya and is highly conserved across mammals, evolving more slowly than other MH1Like. It has been pseudogenized or independently lost three times in carnivores, the armadillo, and lagomorphs. The corresponding TRAV1 gene also evolved slowly and harbors highly conserved complementarity determining regions 1 and 2. TRAV1 is absent exclusively from species in which MR1 is lacking, suggesting that its loss released the purifying selection on MR1. In the rabbit, which has very few NKT and no MAIT cells, a previously unrecognized iTRA was identified by sequencing leukocyte RNA. This iTRA uses TRAV41, which is highly conserved across several groups of mammals. A rabbit MH1Like gene was found that appeared with mammals and is highly conserved. It was independently lost in a few groups in which MR1 is present, like primates and Muridae, illustrating compensatory emergences of new MH1Like/Invariant T-cell combinations during evolution. Deciphering their role is warranted to search similar effector functions in humans.
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- 2016