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Complement Immune System Flashcards

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What are the general “5 steps” of alternative complement system?

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  1. initiation of complement activation
  2. C3 cleaved: C3a inflammation
  3. C3b deposited on microbe: opsonization and phagocytosis
  4. C5 cleaved: C5a inflammation
  5. membrane attack complex (MAC): lysis of microbe
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What other medically important proteolytic cascades does complement system cooperate with? (2)

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  • blood coagulation pathways
  • kinin-kallikrein system: regulates vascular permeability
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What does Factor B do in alternative complement system?

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  • Bb is a serine protease
  • active enzyme of C3 and C5 convertases
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What does Factor D do in alternative complement system?

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  • plasma serine protease
  • cleaves factor B when it is bound to C3b
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What does properdin (Factor P) do in alternative complement system?

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  • stabilizes C3 convertases (C3bBb) on microbial surfaces
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What does C1 do in classical pathway?

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initiates the pathway

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What does C1q do in the classical pathway?

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binds to Fc portion of antibody that has bound to microbe antigen, to apoptotic cells, or to cationic surfaces

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What does C1r do in classical pathway?

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  • serine protease
  • cleaves C1s to make it an active protease
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What does C1s do in classical pathway?

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  • serine protease
  • cleaves C4 and C2
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What does C4 do in classical pathway?

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  • C4b covalently binds to microbe, complement is activated
  • C4b binds C2 for cleavage by C1s
  • C4a: unknown
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What does C2 do in classical pathway?

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  • C2a is a serine protease
  • active enzyme of C3 and C5 convertases to cleave C3 and C5
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What composes the classical C3 convertase?

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C4bC2a

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What composes the classical C5 convertase?

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C4bC2aC3b

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What does MBL do in lectin pathway?

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agglutinin, opsonin, complement fixing

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What does MASP1 do in lectin pathway?

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forms complex with MASP2 and collectins for ficolins and activates MASP3

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What does MASP2 do in lectin pathway?

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forms complex with lectins, especially ficolin-3

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What does MASP3 do in lectin pathway?

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associates with collectins or ficolins and MASP1, cleaves C4

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What is the activation requirement for classical pathway?

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  • antibodies: 1 IgM or 2 IgG
  • C1
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What is the activation requirement for lectin pathway?

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  • does not use C1
  • bacteria/pathogen needs to have mannose antigen
  • MBP binds to bacteria, MASPs are activated
20
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What is the activation requirement for alternative pathway?

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  • C3 undergoes spontaneous hydrolysis
  • FB and FD are needed
21
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What does C1-inhibitor do in the regulation of complement pathways?

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  • inactivates C1r, C1s (classical) and MASPs (lectin) (all irreversible)
  • also inhibits kallikrein-kinin and coagulation cascades (complement activation)
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What does Factor 1 (F1) do in the regulation of complement system?

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  • inactivates/degrades C3b and C4b (inhibits formation of convertases)
  • requires cofactor activity by one of the following: MCP, CR1, Factor H, C4BP
23
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Which regulatory proteins destabilize CP C3 convertase? AP C3 convertase?

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  • CP C3: DAF, CR1, C4BP
  • AP C3: DAF, CR1, Factor H
24
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Which regulatory proteins inhibit MAC assembly?

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CD59, S protein, vitronectin

25
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  • disease caused by complement deficiency
  • immune-complex disease
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C1, C2, C4

26
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  • disease caused by complement deficiency
  • susceptibility to capsulated bacteria
27
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  • disease caused by complement deficiency
  • susceptibility to Neisseria
28
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  • disease caused by complement deficiency
  • susceptibility to capsulated bacteria Neisseria but no immune-complex disease
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Factor D, properdin (factor P)

29
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  • disease caused by complement deficiency
  • similar affects to deficiency of C3 (suspectibility to capsulated bacteria)
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Factor I deficiency

30
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  • disease caused by complement deficiency
  • autoimmune-like conditions including paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
31
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  • disease caused by complement deficiency
  • hereditary angioneurotic edema (HAE)
  • the edema in HAE is caused by this deficiency, as the enzyme inactivates cleaving of kininogen to bradykinin; build up of bradykinin is causing of edema
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C1-inhibitor (C1-INH) deficiency

32
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What are the diagnostic tests for meningitis?

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blood cultures (bacterial growth), imaging (CT or MRI of the head), lumbar puncture

33
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What would the CSF from a lumbar puncture show in the case of meningitis infection?

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  • low glucose level
  • increased WBC count
  • increased protein
  • PCR would be needed to determine presence of pathogen, testing needed for presence of anti-viral antibodies
34
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What are the most common causes of meningitis?

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  • viral infections
  • bacterial infections: pnemococcus (most common for bacteria) and meningococcus (highly contageous, teenagers and YAs, the one that causes local epidemics)
35
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How should you (the physician) proceed with treatment in a suspected meningitis case?

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start empiric antimicrobial therapy aka IV antibiotics Ceftriaxone and Vancomycin (until more specific results can be obtained, bacterial infections tend to worsen without tx)

36
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What are the warning signs of immunodeficiency disorder? (8)

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  • eight+ ear infections in 1 year
  • 2+ serious sinus infections in 1 year
  • 2+ bouts of pneumonia in 1 year
  • 2+ deep-seated infections, or infections in unusual areas
  • recurrent deep skin or organ abscesses
  • need for IV antibiotic therapy to clear infection
  • infections with unusual or opportunistic organisms
  • family history of primary immunodeficiency
37
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How do you clinically test classical, alternative, and terminal (MAC complex) pathways of the complement system?

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  • CH50 test: amount of patient’s serum that will lyse 50% of sheep RBCs coated WITH antibody (tests classical and terminal components)
  • AH50: same as CH50 except sheep RBCs are WITHOUT antibody (tests alternative and terminal components)
38
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  • deficiency in complement system
  • rare, hereditary genetic condition that is life threatening
  • sx: edema in various body parts, hands, feet, face, airway; abd pain, nausea, vomiting (caused by intestinal wall swelling)
  • airway edema can cause death by asphyxiation
  • defect in gene that encodes for protein C1-inhibitor (C1-INH)
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hereditary angioedema (HAE) or C1 inhibitor deficiency

39
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What is the cause of swelling in hereditary angioedema (HAE)?

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  • C1-INH inactivates plasma kallifrein, which is an enzyme that cleaves plasma kininogen to produce bradykinin
  • in HAE, patients have deficiency in C1-INH, thus there is more bradykinin production than normal
  • the bradykinin causes swelling seen in HEA
40
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How do you confirm diagnosis of a patient suspected of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)?

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test the expression of DAF (CD55) and CD59 on the surface of WBCs by a flow cytometry

41
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  • deficiency in complement system
  • failure to regulate formation of MAC
  • somatic mutation causes deficiency of glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)
  • cells lack surface proteins (~40) linked through GPI anchor of cell membranes, most important being DAF (CD55) and CD59 that protect RBCs from complement action
  • sx: intravascular hemolysis, thrombosis, anemia
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paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)

42
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What type of therapeutic antibody would be used for:

  • autoimmune diseases
  • sepsis
  • age-related degenerative diseases
  • transplant rejection, I/R injury
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complement inhibiting antibodies

(inhibition targets key components of complement cascade: C1, C3, C5, F1, and FD)

43
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What type of therapeutic antibody would be used for:

  • viral infections
  • bacterial infections
  • cancer: hematological tumors
  • cancer: solid tumors
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complement stimulating antibodies

(activation via Fc-induced complement activation (e.g. anti-CD20 for B-cell lymphomas))

44
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  • deficiency in compliment system
  • half of all patients have renal disease (most important prognostic factor for poor outcome)
  • renal involvement manifested clinically by hypertension and edema
  • sx: malar erythema (butterfly rash), fatigue, headaches, edema, joint pain
  • lab findings: proteinuria, pyuria, hematuria
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)

45
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How does the complement system play a role in pathogenesis of glomerular injury?

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  • production of reactive oxygen intermediates and inflammatory cytokines (C5a) by attracted inflammatory cells
  • production of proteases (when MAC complex forms, it is believed to activate mesangial and epithelial cells to release proteases)
46
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What are the 2 mechanisms in immune-mediated vasculitis?

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  • immune-complex deposition
  • direct antibody interaction

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