Lec 03- Leukocyte Circulation and Migration into Tissue Flashcards
What is recirculation?
The ability of lymphocytes to repeatedly home to secondary lymphoid organs, reside there transiently, and then return to the blood.
What is the general process of leukocyte movement from blood into tissues?
migration/recruitment
What is the migration of a leukocyte out of the blood and into a particular tissue, or to a site of an infection or injury?
Leukocyte homing
Recruitment of leukocytes and plasma proteins from the blood to the sites of infection and tissue injury is a major part of the process of ____________.
inflammation
How is inflammation triggered?
recognition of microbes and dead tissues in innate immune responses
Inflammation is refined and prolonged during _______ immune responses.
adaptive immune responses
What underlies the trafficking of all subsets of circulating leukocytes?
A cascade of adhesive and activation events
Circulating leukocytes tether to and roll on the endothelium through transient interactions of ______ and ______ with their receptors.
selections and integrins
What does leukocyte rolling allow?
allows leukocytes to sample the endothelium for chemokines
What do chemokines do?
-activate integrins -trigger adhesion to endothelium
Adherent leukocytes migrate across the endothelium into _______________.
the extravascular space
Once in the extravascular space, leukocytes can migrate down ______________ towards specific areas.
chemokine gradients
5 Steps of Leukocyte Recruitment
-Tethering -Rolling -Adhesion triggering -Extravasation -Chemotaxis
What constantly circulate through the blood, into the tissues, and often back into the blood again?
-immune cells -soluble components
Endothelial cells at sites of infection and tissue injury are activated by ________ secreted by ________ and ________ at these sites.
-cytokines -resident macrophages -mast cells
What are the consequences of activated endothelial cells at infection/injury sites?
Increased adhesiveness of endothelial cells for: -circulating myeloid leukocytes -Ag-activated effector and memory lymphocytes
What is required for leukocyte/lymphocyte homing and recruitment?
the temporary adhesion of the leukocyte to the endothelial cells of blood vessels
Homing involves molecules on the surfaces of what?
-leukocytes (homing receptors and chemokine receptors) -endothelial cells (chemokines)
What are addressing?
a set of several adhesion molecules on the surface of endothelial cells
Addressin function
regulate lymphocyte recirculation via HEV
P-selectin Distribution? Ligand?
Distribution: -Endothelium activated by histamine or thrombin Ligand: -Sialyl Lewis X on PSGL-1 and glycoproteins -neutrophils -monocytes -T cells
E-selectin Distribution? Ligand?
Distribution: -Endothelium activated by cytokines Ligand: -Sialyl Lewis X on glycoproteins -neutrophils -monocytes -T cells
L-selectin Distribution? Ligand?
Distribution: -neutrophils -monocytes -T cells -B cells (naive) Ligand: -Sialyl Lewis X/PNAd on: > GlyCAM-1 > CD34 > MadCAM-1 -endothelium (HEV)
What do selectins do endothelial cells express?
-P-selectin (CD62P) -E-selectin (CD62E)
E-selectin pathway
1- Infection 2- Tissue macrophages respond to infection 3- Macrophages produce cytokines IL-1 and TNF 4- 1-2 hours 5- E-selectin synthesized and expressed on endothelial cell surface
What are the ligands for E-selectin and P-selectin?
complex sialyated carbohydrates related to the Lewis X or Lewis family
Where is L-selectin expressed?
-ONLY expressed on leukocytes and lymphocytes -NOT expressed on endothelial cells
What is L-selectin expression activated by?
IL-1 and TNF at inflammation sites
L-selectin is important for naive T and B lymphocytes for homing into lymph nodes by ____________.
interacting with high endothelial venules (HEV)
What are L-selectin ligands expressed on HEV called?
peripheral node addressins (PNAd)
Integrin: LFA-1 (Late functional antigen-1) Distribution? Ligand?
[expressed by leukocytes] Distribution: -neutrophils -monocytes -T cells -B cells (naive) Ligand: -ICAM-1 -ICAM-2 -endothelium
Integrin: Mac-1 Distribution? Ligand?
Distribution: -neutrophils -monocytes -dendritic cells Ligand: -ICAM-1 -ICAM-2 -endothelium
Integrin: VLA-4 (very late antigen-4) Distribution? Ligand?
[expressed by leukocytes] Distribution: -monocytes -T cells Ligand: -VCAM-1 -endothelium
Integrin: alpha4 beta7 Distribution? Ligand?
[expressed by leukocytes] Distribution: -monocytes -T cells -B cells (gut homing) Ligand: -VCAM-1 -MadCAM-1 -endothelium in gut -gut associated lymphoid tissues
What are integrins?
heterdimeric cell surface proteins
What are integrins composed of?
two noncovalently linked polypeptide chains
Integrin functions
-mediate adhesion of cells to other cells to to extracellular matrix via various specific ligands -integrate signals
What triggers the integrin signals?
Extracellular ligands with cytoskeleton-dependent: -motility -shape change -phagocytic responses
How are integrins able to respond to intracellular signals?
by rapidly increasing their affinity for their ligands (integrin activation)
Integrin activation occurs in all leukocytes in response to what?
chemokine binding to chemokine receptors
When does integrin activation occur in T lymphocytes?
when Ag bonds to TCRs
How is integrin activation mediated?
-by chemokine-induced conformational changes in the extracellular domains of the integrins -leads to increased affinity
What is “inside-out signaling”?
-a type of chemokine signaling -involved in integrin activation -inside causes something to change on the surface