B cell development / differentiation upon activation (Exam III) Flashcards
B cell development / differentiation
T cell dependent interactions
What phases of B cell development are in the BM?
Repertoire assembly
Negative selection
What phases of B cell development are in the secondary lymphoid organs and circulation?
Positive selection
Searching for infection
Finding infections
Attacking infection
List the B cell development order
Repertoire assembly
Negative Selection
Positive selection
Searching for infection
Finding Infection
Attacking infection
Repertoire assembly
Generation of clonally expressed B cell receptors in the bone marrow
Negative selection
Alteration, elimination or inactivation of B cells receptors that bind to components of the human body
positive selection
promotion of a fraction of immature B cells to become mature B cells in the secondary lymphoid tissues
searching for infection
recirculation of mature B cells between lymph, blood, and secondary lymphoid tissues
finding infection
Activation and clonal expansion of B cells by pathogen derived antigens in secondary lymphoid tissues
attacking infection
Differentiation to antibody-secreting plasma cells and memory B cells in secondary lymphoid tissue
Pro B cell stages
- Early Pro B cell
- Heavy chain rearrangement
Pre B cell stages
- Check point
- Light chain rearrangement
- Second checkpoint
Immature B cell phase
- Immature B cell
Early pro B cell
commits to B cell lineage
Heavy chain rearrangement
Generates heavy chain gene diversity in pro-B cell population
First checkpoint (development of B cell)
Selects for functional heavy chains
Light chain rearrangement
Generates light chain gene diversity in pre- cell population
Second checkpoint (B cell development)
Selects for functional light chains
Immature B cell stage
Makes functional IgM
Pre-B cell receptor testing, would be considered to be in what phase of B cell activation?
First checkpoint
Second checkpoint
functional rearrangement of light chains
what which point is BTK required?
first checkpoint - testing of Pre - B cell receptor
Pre B cell receptor (intracellular expression)
- Signals from a properly assembled Pre B cell receptor, induces allelic exclusion at other heavy chain locus
- surrgoate light chain takes place of rearranged light chain
- allows for testing of the heavy chain
surrogate light chain composition (PRE-B cell receptor
- VpreB
- Labmbda 5