Inflammasomes and antimicrobial immunity Flashcards
Give examples of extracellular bacteria?
staph; strep; klebsiella
Give an example of cell surface bacteria
E.coli
Give eamples of intra-vacuolar bacteria?
salmonella; legionella; mycobacterium
Give examples of cytosolic bacteria?
listeria; shigella
What type of protein are injectisomes related to?
flagellar rotors
What is the gram stain of salmonella?
gram neg
Why is the injectisome useful for the innate immune system to recognise?
highly conserved
What type of pathogen is listeria?
gram pos cytosolic pathogen
How does listeria move wtihin the cell and spread to adjacent cells?
host actin machinery and produce listeriolyin O
What is the function of listeriolyin O?
pore forming toxin
What cells does TB live and replicate inside?
alveolar macrophages
What is essential for the virulence of TB?
ESX secretion system
What cytokines protect against M.tb?
IL-12; IFNy and IL-1b
What do AIM2 receptors recognise?
cytosolic dsDNA
Describe the PYHIN family proteins?
can activate inflammasomes; sontain can N-terminal pyrin domain but lack the LRR domain of NLRs instead have HIN domain
Name a member of the PYHIN family?
AIM2
What cells does IL-18 act upon?
NK cells and T cells
What cytokine does IL-18 induce NK cells and T cells to make?
IFNy
What is the result of IFN-induced cell autonomous defensce?
iNOS; NADPH oxidase; autophagy; GBP
What is an inflammasome?
a large multiprotein complex that activates caspase-1 via the adaptor protein Asc
How is pro-caspase 1 activated?
self-proteolytic cleavage into p20 and p10 active subunits
What are the inflammatory outcomes of inflammasome activation?
IL-1b and IL18 release; alarmin release; pyroptosis