5 Humoral Immunity (1 Hour) Flashcards
Where do marginal B cells reside? What do they react to?
Spleen
Blood-borne polysaccharide Ags
Naive B cells travel where to get activated?
Spleen and lymph nodes
How does the number of responding B cells get gated?
There is only so much survival signal produced in these secondary organs
How many signals are required for complete activation of B cells?
2
Where is the Ag recognized in B cells?
Surface Ig
How many BCR must be involved for full activation?
2 or more
What is another way to activate B cells without using the surface Ig?
Recognize pathogens by attached C3d (uses CR2 and CD19)
PAMP being recognize by TLR
What signal is importation to leave the follicle? What is upregulated to get interaction with Th?
CCR7; CXCR5
Memory and class switching require what cell type?
Th
What is the T independent activation of B cells done by
TI-1 antigen
What event causes an upregulation of CD40?
CD80 on B cell binding to CD28 on T cell
What does CD40 and CD40L do?
Allows full activation of B cell
What is the purpose of AID in B cells?
Induce changes to B cells in the lymph nodes to create diversity of receptors
What enzyme causes somatic hypermutation? What cells do this?
AID, changes C to U allowing ApeI to create double strand breaks to mutate DNA in B cells
What causes isotype switching to IgG?
IFNg
What causes isotype switching to IgE
IL4
What cells survive in germinal centers?
Those with the highest affinity to what is being presented on the follicular dendritic cell and to T helpers in the follicles
How long do plasma cells live? What do they do?
Short lived (when T indep act.) or long lived (T dep. act.)
They pump tons of Ig out
What anti-apototic protein do memory B cells express?
Bcl2
What surface markers are found on memory B cells?
CD27 and CD45r
What Ig causes feedback inhibition
IgG
What Ig can cross placenta?
IgG
What receptor do phagocytes have to induce opsonization
Fcgamma
What Fc receptor causes activation of mast cells and basophils? What Ig does it bind?
Fc(epsilon)RI
IgE