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Extracellular matrix protein N-glycosylation mediates immune self-tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster
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Journal Article
Extracellular matrix protein N-glycosylation mediates immune self-tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster
2021
Overview
In order to respond to infection, hosts must distinguish pathogens from their own tissues. This allows for the precise targeting of immune responses against pathogens and also ensures self-tolerance, the ability of the host to protect self tissues from immune damage. One way to maintain self-tolerance is to evolve a self signal and suppress any immune response directed at tissues that carry this signal. Here, we characterize the Drosophila tuSz¹ mutant strain, which mounts an aberrant immune response against its own fat body. We demonstrate that this autoimmunity is the result of two mutations: 1) a mutation in the GCS1 gene that disrupts N-glycosylation of extracellular matrix proteins covering the fat body, and 2) a mutation in the Drosophila Janus Kinase ortholog that causes precocious activation of hemocytes. Our data indicate that N-glycans attached to extracellular matrix proteins serve as a self signal and that activated hemocytes attack tissues lacking this signal. The simplicity of this invertebrate self-recognition system and the ubiquity of its constituent parts suggests it may have functional homologs across animals.
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences
Subject
/ Drosophila melanogaster - growth & development
/ Drosophila melanogaster - immunology
/ Drosophila melanogaster - metabolism
/ Drosophila Proteins - genetics
/ Drosophila Proteins - metabolism
/ Extracellular Matrix Proteins - genetics
/ Extracellular Matrix Proteins - metabolism
/ Fat body
/ Genetics
/ Homology
/ Immune Tolerance - immunology
/ Insects
/ Kinases
/ Mutation
/ Proteins
