Lecture 10/11 Flashcards
What receptors do ancestral T cells have?
- Gamma delta
- Modern have alpha beta
What type of antigens did ancestral T cells recognize?
Lipid rich
Where are primitive T cells important?
- Host environment interface
- Gut, lungs, skin, etc
What cytokines do ancestral T cells secrete?
Inflammatory cytokines
IL6
IL7
IL 17
What is the CD3/4 T cell?
Helper T cell
What is Th?
Helper T cell
What is orchestrator of adaptive response?
T cell
What are T lymphocytes required for?
Cell mediated immunity
Antibody immunity by B cells
What regulates T cell repsonse?
Treg
Cytokines
What do antibodies recognize?
3d form of antigen?
What do T cells recognize?
Antigens in context of self MHC
What happens when APC presents antigen to naive T cell??
One of the following will develop: TH1 TH2 TH17 Treg
What does subset commitment depend on?
Host genetics
Infection type
TLR profile
Cytokine profile
What does Th1 do?
Enhances and amplifies cellular mediated immunity by activating macs or CD8s
What does TH2 do?
Promotes antibody production
What does Treg do?
Modulates or supresses immune response
What does TH17 do?
Promotes chronic inflamatoin
What does T follicular do?
Promotes optimal antibody formation in germinal centers
Another name for TH1?
TMMI - Tcell mediated Macrophage immunity
What is TMMI?
TH1 direction
Tcell mediated Macrophage immunity
What cytokine initiates TMMI?
IL 12
What does IL12 do?
Initiate TMMI
What type of infection causes TMMI?
Uptake of complex antigen by DC
TMMI MHC?
MHCII
What triggers DC maturation?
Uptake of pathogen or its complex antigens
What does mature CD do?
- Moves to lymph
- Down regulates phagocytosis
- Upregulates MHCII presentation
- IL 12/18 upregulatinoin
What does IL 18 do?
Leads to TMMI
Amplifies IL12 properties
Critical cytokine for Th1?
IL12
How do we identify Th1 resposne?
TF: T-BET
What does Tbet signify?
Th1
What does Th1 upregulate in presence of its antigen and ILs?
CD28 & 40L
What costimulatory signal necessary for T & Bcell mediated repsonse?
CD40/40L
CD28/B7
What does commited TH1 produce?
INFgamma
What does commited TH1 produce?
INFgamma
What can produce INFgamma?
TH1
NK
CD8
What is pivotal step for amplifying T cell mediated mac activation?
INFgamma
What does INFgamma do?
- Pivotal step for amplifying T cell mediated mac activation
- Signature cytokine of ongoing TH1
- Attracts effector cells to area
- Controls MHC display by APCs
- Stimulates killer cells
- Increases proinflamatory molecules
What do activated Th1s do?
Upregulate IL2 production and IL2 receptors
What does IL2 do?
Critical growth cytokine in Th1 supporting rapid proliferation stimulated T cells
Where do IL12/18 come from?
DC
Where does IL2 come from?
Activated TH1s
What does INFgamma down regulate?
Th2
Th17
What is IL21?
- Potent activator of CD8
- Activated Th1 releases
What releases IL21?
Activated TH1
Where does TH1 activation usually occur?
Lymph node or spleen
What are the proinflammatory cytokines?
IL1
IL6
IL8
TNF alpha
What produces proinflamatory cytokines?
Activated macrophages
Which cytokines can elevate body temp?
IL1 in concert with IL6
What cytokines facilitates T cell responsiveness to IL2?
IL1
Agonist of IL1?
IL1-Ra
How doe IL 6 differ from IL1?
Growth and differentiation effect on B cells
Effects Bone Ca resorption
Which inflamatory IL is a chemokine?
IL8
What does IL 8 do?
Major stimulus for proliferation, mobilization and recruitment of neurophils
What IL is main inducer or neutrophils?
IL8
What IL is main inducer or neutrophils?
IL8
What produces IL8?
Macs
Neuts
Many others
What is delayed hypersensitivity?
TMMI
What is positive TB skin test example of?
TMMI
How does quantiferon gold work?
- Lymphocutes from blood incubated with TB antigens
- If patient has had TB, INFgamma is released
Do NK cells have CD3?
No
How does INFgamma relate to NK?
Produces and highly effected by
Are NKs antigen specific?
No, no MHC