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Annual Review of Immunology

Volume 36, 2018

Unfinished Business: Evolution of the MHC and the Adaptive Immune System of Jawed Vertebrates

Abstract

The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a large genetic region with many genes, including the highly polymorphic classical class I and II genes that play crucial roles in adaptive as well as innate immune responses. The organization of the MHC varies enormously among jawed vertebrates, but class I and II genes have not been found in other animals. How did the MHC arise, and are there underlying principles that can help us to understand the evolution of the MHC? This review considers what it means to be an MHC and the potential importance of genome-wide duplication, gene linkage, and gene coevolution for the emergence and evolution of an adaptive immune system. Then it considers what the original antigen-specific receptor and MHC molecule might have looked like, how peptide binding might have evolved, and finally the importance of adaptive immunity in general.

Keyword(s): antibody, coevolution, genome-wide duplication, natural killer, synteny, T cell
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Unfinished Business: Evolution of the MHC and the Adaptive Immune System of Jawed Vertebrates
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