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Humoral Immunity: Antibodies And The Life Cycle Of B Cells Flashcards

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What is the basic structure of a antibody/immunoglobulin?

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Variable reigon - different

Constant reigon - same for all same class

Antigen binding site

Light - 2 types make two chains

Heavy - 4 chains (9 different types of chains including variants of alpha and gama chain) that make 2 chains

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What are the five classes of heavy chain?

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Micro

Delta

Alpha

Gamma

Epson

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What are the two domains of the light chain?

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Variable region and constant region

NH3 nd on variable reigon

COO- on the control end

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How are the variable region of the the light and Harvey chain different?

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They have different shapes

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What are the four different antibody functions?

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Virus and toxin neutralisation - prevents pathogen host binding

Opsonisation + ADCP - phagocytosis

Complement fixing/ MAC formation (CDC) - phagocytosis or lysis

Opsonisation + ADCC - NK induced apoptosis

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What are the different classes of antibodies?

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IgG - iconic antibody structure

IgD

IgE

IgA - has a J chain and a secretory component - secreted in mucus and good for respiratory infections - 2 molecules

IgM - has a J chain - 5 molecules together

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What defines the different classes of antibodies?

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The heavy chain

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What heavy chain does igM have?

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Micro/mu

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What heavy chain does IgD have?

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Delta

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What heavy chain does IgG have?

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Gamma

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What heavy chain does IgA have?

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Alpha

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What heavy chain does IgE have?

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Epsilon

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What is the function of IgM?

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Main Ab of primary response

Best at forming immune complexes and fixing compliment

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What is the function of Ig D?

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BCR

Indicated mature B cells

Only AB not secreted

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What is the function of IgG?

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Main Ab of secondary responses,

neutralise toxins,

opsonisation

80% of total Ab in serum

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What is the function of IgA?

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Secreted onto mucous, tears, saliva, colostrum

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What is the function of IgE?

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Allergy

Anti-parasites

Smallest percentage of Ab in serum

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When can heavy chain class switching occur?

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Only effects heavy chain constant region

Different effector functions

Minor: Differential splicing (mRNA level) - IgM and IgD

Major : DNA recombination
- igM to IgG, IgA, IgE
- IgG to IgA, IgE

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What is class switch recombination (CSR)?

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  1. Cytokine signal
  2. Switch regions
  3. AID and DSB repair

Recombination between switch regions

Switching only proceeds down stream

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Why does antibody class switching occur?

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In response to antigen stimulation and costimulatory signals

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Describe a overview of the B cell life cycle

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Antigen independent stage (BONE MARROW)
- Stem cells differentiate to pro B cells
- then pre B cells when recombination makes the heavy chain variable region
- immature B cell forms after light chain develops
- expression of igM and igD by differential splicing

Antigen dependent stage (BLOOD STREAM AND LYMPH NODE)
- reside in spleen until pathogen is detected
- class switching occurs
- receptors because igG or igA
- some will turn into plasma cells
- memory b cells remain in blood

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What is somatic recombination ?

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Alteration of the genetic information at DNA level

  • VDJ recombination
  • Tdt nucleotide addition
  • somatic hypermutation
  • class switching
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What is differential splicing?

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Changes made on the mRNA

  • igM and igD
  • membrane bound and secreted ig
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What happens on the life cycle of a B cell?

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  1. Stem cell is converted to pro-b cell (heavy chain develops)
  2. Pro b cell becomes a pre-b cell (light chain develops
  3. Immature B cell
  4. Quality control occurs with differential splicing of igM nd igD - mature B cells form
  5. Mature B cells. Then leave the be marrow and enter the spleen and lymph node
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How many antibody genes are inherited?
None! No complete genes re inherited, only gene segments The gene segments in different combinations generate many ig sequences
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What re the three genetic loci encoding ig?
Two for light chain - kappa and lambda locus One for heavy chain Located on different chromosomes
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What are. Recombination signal sequences (RSS)?
Conserved sequences upstream or downstream of gene segments
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What is the on-turn/two-turn rule (12/23 rule)?
Recombination only occurs between 12bp spacer and 23bp spacer
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What are the number of different combinations the antibody Haines can have/
1.98 x 10^8
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What are the processes that can abuse antibody diversity?
Multiple germaline V,D and J gene segments Junctional flexibility P nucleotide addition N nucleotide addition Combination association of heavy and light chains Somatic hypermuutation during affinity maturation
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What is junctional diversity?
Junctional flexibility during VDJ recombination, P and N nucleotide recombinations Good for antibody diversity Bad: non-productive rearrangements - wasteful process
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Describe the mechanism of junctional diversity?
1. RAG1 and RAG2 bind to the terms on either end pulling them together to form a hairpin structure 2. DNA is nipped and forms a hairpin at the ends of the gene set 3. Enzymes process these ends and form a coding joint of the desired genes and a signal joint 4. Signal joint contains other genes that were between the two gene segments 5.
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Describe what occurs during hair opening and joining
The hairpin opens using the enzyme Artemis And the DNA ends will be processed by exonuclease and TdT The DNA ends are Joined by a series of enzymes
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What is junctional flexibility?
Removal of nucleotides between gene segments during VDJ recombination Exact mechanism unknown Involves Exonuclease - removes mismatched nucleotides
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Describe roughly what occurs during junctional flexibility
1. two different hairpins are cleaved at a random parts 2. Leading for one hairpin to turn into 2 DNA strands 3. P Nucleotides and N nucleotides are added to the ends of the DNA strand 4. The strands from each hairpin at the start join by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (Tdt) 5. Forming 2 long DNA strands that contain one P Nucleotide and one N nucleotide
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What is allergic exclusion?
Two copies for each ig gene - one paternal an one maternal Both genes are expressed Antibody genes different - only on heavy chain and one light chain allele Is expressed
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What is the order of rearrangement of allelic genes?
Heavy > kappa > lamba: 1st allele then 2nd allele
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Describe what occurs during the Life cycle B cells
1. Lymphoid progenitor cells in the bone marrow is converted into a mature B cells and T helper cells 2. Mature B cells enter the spleen + lymph node and blood 3. T helper cells migrate to the thymus 4. Once the mature B cell enters the spleen it enters the germinal center 5. In the dark zone of the germinal centre the mature B ell undergoes clonal expansion + somatic hyper mutation 6. In the light zone the cells undergoes selection + class switching occurs 7. After this the mature B cells now have Ig on their surface and leave the spleen/lymph node an enter the blood 8. The B cells then differentiate into memory cells or plasma cells
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What occurs in T cell INDEPENDENT B cell activation?
1. Antigen on pathogen binds to B cell 2. Triggering clonal expansion and IgM secretion
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What occurs in T cell DEPENDENT B cell activation?
1. Antigens on pathogen bind to dendritic cells 2. Dendritic cells then bind to T helper cells 3. The T helper cells then bind to B cells using (TCR + MHC2) (CD40 + CD40L)
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What are the 3 signals required for B cell activation?
- Antigen binding to BCRs - Co-stimulation by activated Th cell specific to some antigen - Th Cell-deprived cytokines
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How are B cells activated by the T cell transduction pathway?
The B cell receptor binding activates tyrosine kinase, which phosphorylated proteins Signal transduction pathway for cell proliferation, differentiation and survival
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Define affinity maturation
To fine tune antibody affinity to antigen
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What occurs during clonal expansion?
1. B cell that can bind to the pathogen the best will get activated 2. B cell then makes clones of itself 3. B cells then undergo finite maturation
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What occurs during affinity maturation?
Process to. Improve affinity of antibody to antigen Antibody binds at low affinity - antibody takes longer to bind or binds loosely Once B cell is activated mutations occur in the antibody which allow it to have higher affinity - shapes the area of the variable region to fit the antigen better
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Where does the affinity maturation take place?
In the germaline centre of the lymph node
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What are follicular dendritic cells (FDC)?
Not your normal dendritic cells but are antigen presenting Are present n the germalne centres of the lymph node
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When does class switching occur?
In the light zone of the germinal center of the thymus Occurs to the B cells with the highest affinity after affinity maturation
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What is somatic mutation?
Point mutations that occur in the clonal expanded B cells
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Describe how antibody finite changes through the cycles of affinity maturation
The antibody finite increases with the number of rounds of affinity maturation

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