Ancient fish lineages illuminate toll-like receptor diversification in early vertebrate evolution

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Since its initial discovery over 50 years ago, understanding the evolution of the vertebrate RAG- mediated adaptive immune response has been a major area of research focus for comparative geneticists. However, how the evolutionary novelty of an adaptive immune response impacted the diversity of receptors associated with the innate immune response has received considerably less attention until recently. Here, we investigate the diversification of vertebrate toll-like receptors (TLRs), one of the most ancient and well conserved innate immune receptor families found across the Tree of Life, integrating genomic data that represent all major vertebrate lineages with new transcriptomic data from Polypteriformes, the earliest diverging ray-finned fish lineage. Our analyses reveal TLR sequences that reflect the 6 major TLR subfamilies, TLR1, TLR3, TLR4, TLR5, TLR7, and TLR11, and also currently unnamed, yet phylogenetically distinct TLR clades. We additionally recover evidence for a pulse of gene gain coincident with the rise of the RAG-mediated adaptive immune response in jawed vertebrates, followed by a period of rapid gene loss during the Cretaceous. These gene losses are primarily concentrated in marine teleost fish and synchronous with the mid Cretaceous anoxic event, a period of rapid extinction for marine species. Finally, we reveal a mismatch between phylogenetic placement and gene nomenclature for up to 50% of TLRs found in clades such as ray-finned fishes, cyclostomes, amphibians, and elasmobranchs. Collectively, these results provide an unparalleled perspective of TLR diversity and offer a ready framework for testing gene annotations in non-model species.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:75

Enthalten in:

Immunogenetics - 75(2023), 5 vom: 18. Okt., Seite 465-478

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Carlson, Kara B [VerfasserIn]
Nguyen, Cameron [VerfasserIn]
Wcisel, Dustin J [VerfasserIn]
Yoder, Jeffrey A [VerfasserIn]
Dornburg, Alex [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Actinopterygii
Evolution
Immunogenetics
Journal Article
Polypterus senegalus
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
TLR
Toll-Like Receptors
Vertebrate

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Date Completed 22.09.2023

Date Revised 22.09.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s00251-023-01315-7

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM36055508X