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Unexpected Diversity in the Innate Immune System of the Purple Sea Urchin. L. Courtney Smith. Department of Biological Sciences George Washington University Washington DC 202-994-9211. Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. Deuterostomes. Animal Phylogeny and the Evolution of Immunity.
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Unexpected Diversity in the Innate Immune System of the Purple Sea Urchin L. Courtney Smith Department of Biological Sciences George Washington University Washington DC 202-994-9211 Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Deuterostomes Animal Phylogeny and the Evolution of Immunity • Chordates • Vertebrates • Mammals • Birds • Reptiles • Amphibians • Fish • Sharks & Rays • Agnathans • Lampreys • Hagfish Protostomes Arthropods Molluscs Annelids Protochordates Ascidians Echinoderms Sea Urchins
Sea Urchin Genome Annotation • Incomplete Complement System • Missing Classical and Terminal pathways • Duplication of Alternative pathway • Large gene families • Toll-like receptors, 222 gene models (humans have ~11) • expressed in coelomocytes (immune cells) • NOD-like receptors, 203 gene models (humans have ~20) • expressed in gut • Scavenger receptors, 218 gene models • expressed in coelomocytes • C-type lectins, 408 gene models (humans have ~100) • encoding 108 small lectins, 300 mosaic proteins (Cohen & Smith, unpublished) Highly Diverse Innate Immune System Hibino et al., Dev Biol 300:349, 2006 TSUGSC, Science 314:941,2006 Rast et al., Science 314:952, 2006
Gene Expression in Sea Urchin Immune Cells Responding to LPS 185/333 All others Of 1025 randomly chosen ESTs, 72% matched to two unknown sequences. EST333 (Smith et al., 1996) DD185 (Rast, Pancer & Davidson, 1999) Nair et al., Physiol Genomics 2005.
Alignment of 185/333 cDNAs 300 nt Gaps define blocks of sequence called elements. Alternative splicing? Terwilliger et al., Physiol Genomics 2006
185/333 Gene Structure 407bp Leader Elements 1 - 25 E2 < 2 kb Quantitative PCR estimates 80 - 120 alleles per genome Terwilliger et al., Physiol Genomics 2006
Gene Element Patterns Exon 1 Exon 2 elements 9 12 16 21 Pattern Source Group 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 11 13 14 15 17 18 19 20 22 24 25 Int. L 23 # 1 3 B A b A 6* 1 S A b 5* B 1 S b 2 C 1 S b 3d 5 S B b B 3b 5 B B b 6* 2 S D b 7* 1 S C b C 3 2 S C b 3* 1 S C b 4* 1 S D b D C 1 28 B b 5* 3 C C c 6 1 C C a 3f 6 C E a 3c 1 C C a 2 14 B E a E 7* E 1 C b 8* 1 C E b 9* 1 C E c 1* 1 C B b F 2* 4 C B b 2* 1 C E a 1f 12 B E b 0 1c 1 S C b 1e 1 S D b 300 bp Intron elements A B C D E 2 9 1 3 4 5 8 6 7 Buckley & Smith, in prep 100 bp
185/333 Sequence Diversity • Element diversity is a result of SNPs and indels • Sequences of identical genes are rarely identified within an individual sea urchin • Identical genes are never shared among sea urchins. • Some element sequences are shared among dissimilar genes
Intron Elements Exon 2 Elements 57 46 67 L Element Scrambling 12 3 11 11 2 2 4 4 9 11 37 3 3 7 3 8 5 2 2 2 19 1 13 1 1 1 3 20 3 61 21 1 1 1 14 2 38 unique genes from animal 10 1 1 2 2 2 2 20 9 19 2 2 2 1 1 1 19 10 1 2 1 5 11 5 17 10 10 4 16 1 1 1 1 17 16 6 11 3 17 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 19 6 3 2 6 7 2 3 2 3 12 6 3 4 3 2 34 2 3 1 2 2 4 4 6 7 6 30 4 17 3 3 6 18 13 39 8 35 1 2 1 5 3 5 3 4 5 9 13 6 9 3 13 9 5 6 7 5 9 23 1 4 6 4 2 9 2 1 14 11 17 29 10 18 10 7 25 22 8 6 4 7 3 5 13 8 4 7 8 7 41 19 18 14 21 10 1 25 1 1 5 5 12 3 1 7 1 9 9 5 6 8 5 10 2 12 14 12 15 20 28 Buckley & Smith, in prep 7
Conclusions • Complex immune system • Large gene families • Unknown mechanisms for diversification Do all metazoa have mechanisms for immune diversification? Future Problems • 185/333 locus structure • 185/333 protein function
Acknowledgments • Young-Ok Kim • Heather Del Valle • Lindsay Edwards George Washington University • David Terwilliger • Katherine Buckley • Virginia Brockton • Rebecca Easley • Macquarie University • David Raftos • Sham Nair • Nolwen Dheilly Sea urchin immunology is supported by the National Science Foundation Duke University • Tom Kepler • Supriya Munshaw Dickinson College • John Henson Medical Univ. of S. Carolina • Paul Gross