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Adaptive Immune System- Focus On B Cells Flashcards

1
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What is an antigen?

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Any substance that can induce an adaptive immune response

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Name a few things that antigens can be made up of

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Short peptides, proteins, sugars, lipids and more

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What is an antibody?

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Proteins produced by adaptive immune cells that bind specifically to antigenic determinants

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What is an antigenic determinant?

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Relatively small part of foreign molecules that antibodies bind to

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What is a cytokine?

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General term to describe various small proteins secreted by cells that serve to regulate the immune system

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How are cytokines named?

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Often interleukin followed by a number but sometimes have other names linked to their function

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What are chemokines?

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The subtype of immune molecules that are involved in the movement and migration of immune cells

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How do chemokines move cells?

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Release chemicals in a gradient which guide the cells

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What does CD stand for?

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Cluster of differentiation

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What is a CD?

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Defines cell-surface molecules on immune cells that are recognised by specific monoclonal antibodies

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What does the number after the CD stand for?

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The order of its discovery

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12
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Do CDs have to be expressed specifically to one cell lineage?

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No, can be found on many lineages

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What is the defining characteristic of adaptive immunity?

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Immune response is directed at a specific pathogens antigen and memory persists after initial encounter

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14
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What do lymphoid precursors do if they move into the thymus?

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Mature into T cells

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15
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What do lymphoid cells mature into in the bone marrow?

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B cells

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What are the three large groups of B cell?

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B1, B2 and regulatory B cells

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Where do B1 cells mature?

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In the liver

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18
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Where do B1 cells end up?

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Peritoneum

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19
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Which immunoglobulin do B1 cells express on the cell surface?

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IgM

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What is the function of B1 cells?

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Produce natural antibodies That are present in the absence of infection.

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Do B1 cells require T cell help?

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No

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22
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Where do B2 cells mature?

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Bone marrow and spleen

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What are the three types of B2 cell?

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Follicular, transitional or marginal

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Which is the most common type of B2 cell?

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Follicular

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Where are the follicular B2 cells located?

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Secondary lymphoid organs (spleen, tonsils, lymph nodes)

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Which type of B2 cell makes the majority of high affinity antibodies?

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Follicular B2 cells

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27
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Do follicular B2 cells require T cell help?

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Yes

28
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Where are marginal zone B2 cells found?

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In the spleen

29
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What are the marginal zone B2 cells function?

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First line of defence against blood-bourne pathogens

30
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Do marginal zone B2 cells require T cell help?

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May or may not

31
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What is the function of regulatory B cells?

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Produce responses that regulate the other two types

32
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What are the three stages of primary adaptive response?

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Activation, proliferation and memory cells

33
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Why does the immune response decrease over time?

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To maintain homeostasis

34
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What is the significance of the antibodies being specific?

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Makes sure the response to a microbe is directed at a particular antigen of that microbe

35
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What is the significance of the antibodies being diverse?

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The immune system is able to respond to a large variety of antigens

36
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What is the significance of the antibodies doing clonal selection and expansion?

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Increases the number of antigen-specific lymphocytes to keep pace with microbes

37
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What is the significance of the antibodies being specialised?

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Generates optimal responses against different types of microbes

38
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What is the significance of the antibodies contraction and homeostasis?

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Allows for recovery and to avoid collateral damage

39
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What is the significance of the antibodies having a memory?

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Increases the ability of the cell to combat repeated infections

40
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What is the significance of the antibodies having a very low reactivity to self?

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Prevents injury to the host

41
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What are a lot of the symptoms of infection due to?

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Collateral damage of the immune system and not directly related to the bug itself

42
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What are Ig glycoproteins made up of?

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tetrameric - 2 light chains and two heavy chains

43
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How are the two light and two heavy chains held together?

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Non-covalent interactions and disulfide cross links between cysteine residues

44
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How are Ig glycoproteins shaped?

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Y shaped

45
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What is the fab fraction of the antibody?

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Antigen binding bit

46
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What can the Fc fraction of the antibody be used to create?

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crystals

47
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How are antibodies split into their Fab and Fc fractions?

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Proteases cut the molecule at the hinge region

48
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What is the function of the variable region?

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To bind to the antigen

49
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What is the constant region of an antibody responsible for?

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Effector functions (activating complement, binding to phagocytes etc)

50
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What is the idiotype?

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The variable region tip

51
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What is the isotype?

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The Fc fraction and the bottom half of the variable region

52
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What is the tip of the Ig variable region called?

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CDRs- complement determining regions

53
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How does an antibody bind to an antigen?

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Electrostatic, hydrophobic, van der waals forces and hydrogen bonds

54
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What is a linear determinant?

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The Ig can bind to the determinant in both the native and denatured protein

55
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What is a conformational determinant?

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The Ig can only bind if the protein is folded

56
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What are the two ways an antibody can be found?

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The surface of a B cell or secreted from a B cell

57
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How is an antibody attached to the surface of a B cell?

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Anchored to the surface, with a TMD and a cytoplasmic tail

58
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How does the body make millions of different B cells with different random antigen binding sites?

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Ig gene rearrangement, receptor editing, selection or somatic hypermutation

59
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How does clonal selection and expansion work?

A

Lymphocyte clones mature into generative lymphoid organs
Clones of mature lymphocytes specific for diverse antigens enter the lymphoid tissues
Antigen-specific clones are activated by antigens
Antigen-specific immune responses occur

60
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Why are most antibody responses polyclonal?

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More than one clone of B cells is generated or more than one Ig is synthesised

61
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What are the 5 types of immunoglobulin isotopes?

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IgG (gamma) 
IgA (alpha)
IgM (mu)
IgE (epsilon)
IgD (delta)
62
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Which Ig isotype has the most subclasses (and what are their names)?

A

IgG

1, 2, 3, 4

63
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What is the Ig isotope that forms a pentameter?

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IgM

64
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Which Ig isotope dimerises?

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IgA

65
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What can the IgA dimer do that IgA on its own cannot?

A

Cross the muscosal barriers in the gut

66
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What are the 6 antibody effector functions?

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  • neutralisation
  • opsonisation and phagocytosis of microbes
  • antibody dependant cellular cytotoxicity
  • phagocytosis of microbes with complement fragments
  • inflammation
  • lysis of microbes
67
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What are the two ways antibodies can opsonise a pathogen?

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Neutralise it (bind to the toxin so they cant attack cells)
Or bind to the antigens on the bacterial cell surface, which makes phagocytosis more efficient

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