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ArticlePloS one2013

Discovery of J chain in African lungfish (Protopterus dolloi, Sarcopterygii) using high throughput transcriptome sequencing: implications in mucosal immunity.

Luca Tacchi, Erin Larragoite, Irene Salinas

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Article in PloS one, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Luca TacchiCenter for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America.
Erin Larragoite
Irene Salinas
University of New Mexico · US

Funding

UNM Initiative to Maximize Student Diversity (IMSD)R25GM060201 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO · PI WERNER-WASHBURNE, MARGRET C. · 2000 to 2017
$9.9M
COBRE Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical ImmunologyP20GM103452 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO · PI LOKER, ERIC SAMUEL · 2012 to 2013
$4.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103452NIGMS NIH HHS P20GM103452NIGMS NIH HHS R25 GM060201
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

J chain is a small polypeptide responsible for immunoglobulin (Ig) polymerization and transport of Igs across mucosal surfaces in higher vertebrates. We identified a J chain in dipnoid fish, the African lungfish (Protopterus dolloi) by high throughput sequencing of the transcriptome. P. dolloi J chain is 161 aa long and contains six of the eight Cys residues present in mammalian J chain. Phylogenetic studies place the lungfish J chain closer to tetrapod J chain than to the coelacanth or nurse shark sequences. J chain expression occurs in all P. dolloi immune tissues examined and it increases in the gut and kidney in response to an experimental bacterial infection. Double fluorescent in-situ hybridization shows that 88.5% of IgM⁺ cells in the gut co-express J chain, a significantly higher percentage than in the pre-pyloric spleen. Importantly, J chain expression is not restricted to the B-cell compartment since gut epithelial cells also express J chain. These results improve our current view of J chain from a phylogenetic perspective.

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Gene Expression ProfilingHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsEnterobacteriaceaeEpithelial CellsFishesGene Expression RegulationHumansImmunity, MucosalImmunoglobulin MIntestinal MucosaIntestinesLymphocytesMiceMolecular Sequence DataImmunoglobulin MPeptides

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PMID23967082
PMCPMC3743840
OpenAlexW2070149638

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