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ArticleImmunogenetics2018

The antibody loci of the domestic goat (Capra hircus).

John C Schwartz, Rebecca L Philp, Derek M Bickhart, Timothy P L Smith, John A Hammond

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Article in Immunogenetics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

John C SchwartzThe Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, Surrey, GU24 0NF, UK.
Rebecca L PhilpThe Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, Surrey, GU24 0NF, UK.
Derek M BickhartCell Wall Biology and Utilization Research, USDA-ARS, Madison, WI, 53706, USA.
Timothy P L SmithMeat Animal Research Center, USDA-ARS, Clay Center, NE, 68933, USA.
John A HammondThe Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, Surrey, GU24 0NF, UK. john.hammond@pirbright.ac.uk.
The Pirbright Institute · GBAgricultural Research Service · USRoman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center · USUniversity of Glasgow · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/J013854/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/I/00001710Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/I/00007015Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/I/00007031Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/I/00007038Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/I/00007039
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The domestic goat (Capra hircus) is an important ruminant species both as a source of antibody-based reagents for research and biomedical applications and as an economically important animal for agriculture, particularly for developing nations that maintain most of the global goat population. Characterization of the loci encoding the goat immune repertoire would be highly beneficial for both vaccine and immune reagent development. However, in goat and other species whose reference genomes were generated using short-read sequencing technologies, the immune loci are poorly assembled as a result of their repetitive nature. Our recent construction of a long-read goat genome assembly (ARS1) has facilitated characterization of all three antibody loci with high confidence and comparative analysis to cattle. We observed broad similarity of goat and cattle antibody-encoding loci but with notable differences that likely influence formation of the functional antibody repertoire. The goat heavy-chain locus is restricted to only four functional and nearly identical IGHV genes, in contrast to the ten observed in cattle. Repertoire analysis indicates that light-chain usage is more balanced in goats, with greater representation of kappa light chains (~ 20-30%) compared to that in cattle (~ 5%). The present study represents the first characterization of the goat antibody loci and will help inform future investigations of their antibody responses to disease and vaccination.

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GenomeAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsCattleFemaleGoatsImmunoglobulin Heavy ChainsImmunoglobulin Light ChainsImmunoglobulinsImmunoglobulin Variable RegionSequence HomologyImmunoglobulin Heavy ChainsImmunoglobulin Light ChainsImmunoglobulinsImmunoglobulin Variable RegionB cell receptorHeavy chainKappa light chainLambda light chain

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PMID29063126
PMCPMC5899754
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