Complement receptor 3-like immunoreactivity in the light green cells and the canopy cells of the pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis

2000 ◽  
Vol 865 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dai Hatakeyama ◽  
Iori Ito ◽  
Satoshi Kojima ◽  
Yutaka Fujito ◽  
Etsuro Ito
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Cerveau ◽  
Daniel John Jackson

AbstractMicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a deeply conserved class of small, single stranded RNA molecules that post-transcriptionally regulate mRNA levels via several targeted degradation pathways. They are involved in a wide variety of biological processes and have been used to infer the deep evolutionary relationships of major groups such as the Metazoa. Here we have surveyed several adult tissues of the freshwater pulmonate Lymnaea stagnalis (the Great Pond Snail) for miRNAs. In addition we perform a shell regeneration assay to identify miRNAs that may be involved in regulating mRNAs directly involved in the shell-forming process. From seven mature tissues we identify a total of 370 unique precursor miRNAs that give rise to 336 unique mature miRNAs. While the majority of these appear to be evolutionarily novel, most of the 70 most highly expressed (which account for 99.8% of all reads) share sequence similarity with a miRBase or mirGeneDB2.0 entry. We also identify 10 miRNAs that are differentially regulated in mantle tissue that is actively regenerating shell material, 5 of which appear to be evolutionarily novel and none of which share similarity with any miRNA previously reported to regulate biomineralization in molluscs. One significantly down-regulated miRNA is predicted to target Lst-Dermatopontin, a previously characterized shell matrix protein from another freshwater gastropod. This survey provides a foundation for future studies that would seek to characterize the functional role of these molecules in biomineralization or other processes of interest.


1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisayo Sadamoto ◽  
Dai Hatakeyama ◽  
Satoshi Kojima ◽  
Yutaka Fujito ◽  
Etsuro Ito

Blood ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 107 (2) ◽  
pp. 835-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel E. Cramer ◽  
Daniel J. Allendorf ◽  
Jarek T. Baran ◽  
Richard Hansen ◽  
Jose Marroquin ◽  
...  

AbstractMyelotoxic injury in the bone marrow (BM) as a consequence of total body irradiation (TBI) or granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) mobilization results in the deposition of iC3b on BM stroma (stroma-iC3b). In the present study, we have examined how stroma-iC3b interacts with hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs) and the role of complement (C) and complement receptor 3 (CR3) in BM injury/repair. We demonstrate here that stroma-iC3b tethers HPCs via the inserted (I) domain of HPC complement receptor 3 (CR3, CD11b/CD18, Mac-1). Following irradiation, stroma-iC3b was observed in the presence of purified IgM and normal mouse serum (NMS), but not serum from Rag-2-/- mice, implicating a role for antibody (Ab) and the classic pathway of C activation. Furthermore, a novel role for soluble yeast β-glucan, a ligand for the CR3 lectin-like domain (LLD), in the priming of CR3+ HPC is suggested. Soluble yeast β-glucan could enhance the proliferation of tethered HPCs, promote leukocyte recovery following sublethal irradiation, and increase the survival of lethally irradiated animals following allogeneic HPC transplantation in a CR3-dependent manner. Taken together, these observations suggest a novel role for C, CR3, and β-glucan in the restoration of hematopoiesis following injury. (Blood. 2006;107:835-840)


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