The immunoglobulin J chain is an evolutionarily co-opted chemokine.
The immunoglobulin J chain is an evolutionarily co-opted chemokine.
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10.1073/pnas.2318995121
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2024-01-16
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11.1
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The joining (J) chain regulates polymerization of multimeric Immunoglobulin(Ig)M and IgA, forming a disulfide bond to the C termini of their Ig heavy chains, and it controls IgM/IgA transport across mucosal epithelia. Like Ig itself and human-like adaptive immunity, J chain emerged in jawed vertebrates (gnathostomes), but its origin has remained mysterious since its discovery over 50 y ago. Here, we show unexpectedly that J chain is a member of the CXCL chemokine family. The J chain gene (JCHAIN) is linked to clustered CXCL chemokine loci in all gnathostomes except actinopterygians that lost JCHAIN. JCHAIN and most CXCL genes have four exons with the same intron phases, including the same cleavage site for the signal peptide/mature protein. The second exon of both genes encodes a CXC motif at the same position, and the lengths of exons 1 to 3 are similar. No other gene in the human secretome shares all of these characteristics. In contrast, intrachain disulfide bonds of the two proteins are completely different, likely due to modifications in J chain to direct Ig polymerization and mucosal transport. Crystal structures of CXCL8 and J chain share a conserved beta-strand core but diverge otherwise due to different intrachain disulfide bonds and extension of the J chain C terminus. Identification of this ancestral affiliation between J chain and CXCL chemokines addresses an age-old problem in immunology.
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DOI:
10.4049/jimmunol.1400531
发表时间:
2014-10-01
期刊:
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)
影响因子:
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作者:
Castro CD;Flajnik MF
通讯作者:
Flajnik MF
影响因子:
5.4
作者:
Flowers EM;Neely HR;Guo J;Almeida T;Ohta Y;Castro CD;Flajnik MF
通讯作者:
Flajnik MF
影响因子:
56.9
作者:
Li, Yaxin;Wang, Guopeng;Xiao, Junyu
通讯作者:
Xiao, Junyu
DOI:
10.4049/jimmunol.1400159
发表时间:
2014-06-15
期刊:
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)
影响因子:
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作者:
Abdi K;Singh NJ;Spooner E;Kessler BM;Radaev S;Lantz L;Xiao TS;Matzinger P;Sun PD;Ploegh HL
通讯作者:
Ploegh HL
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
Tacchi L;Larragoite E;Salinas I
通讯作者:
Salinas I