Immunology test 2 Flashcards
Antigen and MHC
Short linear peptides (a and B, not gamma)
What does a T cell have to have to be stimulated?
Polymorphic residue of MHC
What goes in the pocket in the T cell receptor?
The correct peptide and MHC
What does the T cell have to have to be activated by an antigen?
- T cell MHC antigen complex
2. B7 binds to CD28
What are the 2 signals needed from a dendritic cell to a T cell?
Dendritic cells
Macrophages
B cells
3 APCs
Dendritic cells
Only APC that can present to naive T cells
Cell mediated
What kind of immunity is a macrophage?
Engulf microbe
Put antigen on MHC molecule
Presents antigen to mature T cells
Effector gives abck cytokines that help kill microbe
How does a macrophage effect T cell?
Humoral immunity
What kind of immunity is a B cell?
Antigen meets B cell receptor and goes in cell. Can recognize anything. Chews it up on MHC molecule to an effector T cell. This occurs in borders b/t T and B cell zones in lymph node/spleen. As B cell becomes activated by seeing its antigen, T cell has to be activated by dendritic cells in T cell zone. They come together and activate each other. T cell then helps B cell produce more Ab and can become plasma cell
How do B cells activate T cells?
Border b/t T cell zone and B cell zone either in Lymph node/spleen
where does chewing up of antigen on MHC complex occur in B cell?
T cell zone
Where is the T cell activated by dendritic cells?
Costimulation
APCs display peptide MHC complexes in addition to other signals which provide a second signal.
Not including signal one
Adjuvants
Enhance antigen presentation by exposing to microbial products
Activates innate immune response
Ex. aluminum hydroxide things given w/ vaccine, up regulates signal 2 and allows T cell response
CD40-CD40L
Important for B cell activation and T cell help
MHC
Genetic locus whose products were responsible for the rapid rejection b/t tissue grafts exchanged b/t inbred strains of mice
Alleles
Variants in polymorphic genes
Genetic polymorphisms
Genes whose products can be different b/t individuals
Co dominant
Both alleles expressed
MHC genes
Polymorphic and polygenic
Everything is expressed due to codominance
Allogeneic
Express at least one different allele
Syngeneic
Express the same alleles
Class I: CD8 T cells, on all nucleated cells
Class II: CD4 helper cells, and only on restricted cells (APC)
Who do class I and II present to? Where are they?
K,D,L = class one A,E = Class II
ALways uppercase
What are the letters in Class I vs class II of MOUSE MHC nomenclature?
H-2
How do you know it is a mouse MHC?
K of d. Class I gene, d allele on a mouse
What does H-2Kd mean?
HLA- Human leukocyte antigen
How do you know it is a human MHC?
Class I- A,B,C
Class II- DP, DQ, DR
What are Class I vs Class II letters in human MHC nomenclature?
human MHC, Class I, allele 27
What does HLA-B27 mean?
human MHC, class II, allele 4
What does HLA-DR4 mean?
MHC haplotype
Set of alleles for a given individual
I: 2 alphas and b 2 microglobulin makes it shorter. Accommodates peptides of 8-11 residues
II: a and b (longer), peptides of 10-30 residues or more
Structural differences b/t Class I and II MHCs?
I: intracellular, cytosolic, CD8
II: Extracellular,vesicular, CD4
Are class I or class II extracellular/intracellular? Cytosolic/vesicular?
a chain, B2 microglobulin, and a bound peptide (heterotrimer)
What must be present for expression of Class I on cells surface?
B/t a chains
Where does the peptide sit in a class I MHC?
b/t a and B chains
Where does the peptide sit in an MHC type II molecule?
Innate and adaptive
What types of immune responses can increase expression of MHC molecules?
Cell surface
Where are the ends of the peptide in the cleft cleaved off?
When CD4 contacts macrophage secretes IFN-y which helps activate the macrophage and increases expression of type II MHC
What does IFN-y do?
Only peptides bind to MHC molecules
Why do most T cells recognize peptides and no other molecules?
Cell-associated
What do T cells recognize? cell associated/ soluble antigens?
MHC restriction
T cells from a given individual only recognize antigens in the context of their own MHC
Adaptive immunity takes time, have to be activated in lymph nodes, undergo clonal expansion, differentiate, etc.
Why do you have to wait after a mouse is infected w/ a virus to get a good CD8 response?
Transports peptides into the ER in Class I MHC stuff
What does TAP do?
Golgi
Where does the MHC peptide complex bud from and put in vesicles?
Endocytosis of extracellular protein
What starts the process of antigen processing and presentation in type II MHC?
I: Proteasome
II: Lysosomal enzymes
What degrades the protein into peptides in type I vs type II?
MHCs are made
What happens in the ER in both classes of MHC?
Keeps Class II from picking up peptides by binding to peptide binding cleft .
What does invariant chain do?
CD8- cytolytic
CD4- Helper
Is CD8/CD4 cytolytic/helper?
Chaperones in ER, invariant chain in ER, Golgi
Some things involved in transport of peptides and loading of MHC molecules Class II?
Ub
Tag that cells use to tell something to go to proteosome and be destroyed for normal turnover of cellular proteins.
Tags for degradation
Class I
TAP in ER
How do peptides cross the ER membrane?
Clip
What is left after the invariant chain has been cleaved?
HLADM
What holds Class II chains in an open configuration and removes Clip so other peptides can bind?
- Specific recognition of antigen
- Stable adhesion to the APC
- Transduction of activating signals
T cell activation requires 3 things
ITAM
Immunoreceptor tyrosine based ACTIVATING motifs- Located on receptors for cell activation
ITIMS
Located on signalling chains remove phosphate group to counteract ITAMS via phosphotase, inhibits signal
Zeta and CD3
What phosphorylates the MHC T cell complex to transmit a signal?
CD3
Heterodimer, δ, E, and weird S, 1 ITAM/domain, signal transduction, Ab goes to this, often stimulates T cell responses that are identical to antigen induced responses
Zeta chain
Homodimer, 3 ITAMs/chain, in other cells (Fcy receptor of NK cells), signal transduction
CDR
3 of these located in variable region of a and B chain to recognize peptide-MHC complex
T cell receptor
Similar to Fab region on Ig molecule (in B cell)
Ig= heavy and light chains TCR= a and b chains
Difference in components of T cell receptor and Ig
3
How many CDRs do Igs and TCRs have?
TCR= CD3 and z Ig= Iga and Igb
What are the associated signaling molecules of a TCR and an Ig?
Ig
Production of secreted form, isotype switching, and somatic mutations
TCR or Ig?
Become phosphorylated and transmit a signal
What happens to 3 ITAMs when T cell is activated?
CD3
Required for T cell activation
MHC peptide ligand binds to TCR
Clustering of coreceptors (CD3 and Z)
Phosphorylation of ITAMs
Signal transduction
How is T cell activation initiated?
Fcy receptor on NK cells and T cells
What does z chain signal?
yS T cells
Only recognize antigens directly
Do not need MHC
Recognize target antigens directly
Innate like lymphocytes
aB
What are yS chains similar to in structure?
CD3 and z chains
What do yS T cells bind to?
No - generally
Do yS T cells express CD4/CD8?