Lecture 4 II Flashcards
opsonization and phagocytosis
C3b
C3a
inflammation
inflammation 2nd round
C5a
after C5a
Lysis of microbe
what consists of several plama proteins that work together to opsonize microbes,
to promote the recruitment of phagocytes to the site of infection,
and in some cases to directly kill the microbes
the complement system
What are 3 things that can initiate the complement system?
Classical pathway
Alternative pathway
lectin pathway
What is the second step of complement activation?
C3b and formation of C3 convertase
What does C3b initiate activation of?
C5 and the formation of C5 convertase
What is the last step in the complement activation?
the formation of membrane attack complex, bc it creates holes in the plasma membrane
An inactive precursor enzyme called a zymogen is altered to become an active protease that cleaves the next complement protein in the cascasde…
proteolytic cascade
What does an enzymatic cascade result in?
A temendous amplification of the amount of proteolytic products that are generated
What does the proteolytic products that are generated perform?
vaious effector functions of the complement system
What does the complement system work in cooperation with?
Other medically important proteolytic casesed that include
the blood coagulation pathways
the kinin-kallikrein system that regulates vascular permeability
How does C3 b bind to a microbe?
covalent binding which forms C5 convertase
All three complexes of the complement pathways result in?
sequential recruitment and assembly of additional complement proteins into protease complexes
What cleaves the central protein of the complemetn system, C3?
C3 convertase
What does C3 convertase cleaving C3 produce?
C3a and C3b
What happens to the C3b fragment?
It becomes covalently attached to the microbial surface
What serves as an opsonin to promote phagocytosis of the microbes?
C3b
When the C3b fragment is realeased, it stimulates?
inflammation by acting as a chemoattractant for neutrophils
What do C3b binding to other completment proteins form?
A protease called C5 convertase, that cleaves C5
What does C5 convertase cleaving C5 produce?
a released peptide (C5a) and a larger fragment (C5b) that remains attached to the microbial cell membranes
C5a has a very important chemoattractant role of?
changing the permeabilliy of blood vessels
C5b initiates the formation of what complexes?
the complement proteins C6, C7, C8, and C9, which are assembled into a membrane pore
What is the membrane pore of C6, C7, C8, and C9 called?
the membrane attach complex (MAC)
What causes lysis of the cells where complement is activated/
MAC
What binds to the surface of a microbe, where it functions as an opsonin and as a component of C3 and C5 convertase
C3b
What stimulates inflammation?
C3
What is a serine protease adn the active enzyme of C3 and C5 conertases?
factor B
What is a plasma serine protease that cleaves factor B when it is bound to C3b?
Factor D
What stablizes the C3 convertase (C3bBb) on microbial surfaces?
properdin
What initiates the classical pathway?
C1 (C1qr2s2)
What does C1q bind to?
Fc portion of antibody
What are proteases that lead to C4 and C2 activation?
C1r and C1s
What does C4a stimulate??
inflmmation
What activates C4
C4b covalently binds to surface of microbe or cell where antibody is bound
C4b binds to C2 for cleavage by
C1s
a serine protease functioning as an active enzyme of C3 and C5 convertases
C2
What initiates the lectin pathway?
Mannose beinding lectin (MBL)- it binds to terminal mannose resideus of microbial carbohydrates.
What activates C4 and C2
an MBL associated protease
How does the classical pathway detect Abs bound to the surface of a microbe or other sturucture?
a plama protein called C1q
What happens once C1q binds to the Fc protion of the antibodies?
two associated serine proteases called C1r and C1s become active
What initae a proteiolytic cascade involving other complement proteins C2 and C4?
C1r and C1s
What does MBL recognize?
terminal mannose residues on microbial glycoproteins and glycolipids, similar to the mannose receptor on phagocyte membranes
What family is MBL a member of?
the collectin family
The MBL has what strucutre?
a hexamertric structure similar to the C1q component of the ocmplement system
What are activated after MBL binds to microbes?
two zymogens MASP1(mannose- associated serine protease 1 or mannan binding lectin associated serine protease) and MASP2 are activated
What functions do MAPS1 and 2 have?
Similar to C1r and C1s and initaite downstream proteolytic steps identical to the classical pathway
What three homologous hexameric protines can all initate the complement activation?
C1q, MBL and Ficolin
What binds to the Fc region of IgM and activates the serine protease activity of C1r and C1s? microbial surface antigetn
C1q
MBL binds to?
Mannose on the surface of microbes and acitvates MASP1 and MASP2 assocated with mannose binding lectin
What binds to N-acetylglucosamine(bacterial cell wall) on the surface of microbes and activates MASP1 and MASP2
Fibolin
What is the collectin family?
A fmaily of trimeric proteins with lectin head
What are soluble effector molecules in the innate immune system part of the sollectins?
MBL and pulmonary surfactant proteins (2) SP-A and (3)SP-D
what is a soluble PRR that binds carbohydrates with terminal mannose and fucose and enhances phagocytosis of microbes?
MBL
What are low MBL levels associated with?
increased susceptibility to a vairety of infections
What are collectins with lipophilic properties and their major functions are to maintina the ability of lungs to expand and as mediators of innate immune repsonses
SP-A and SP-d
What do SP-A and SP-D bind to?
Various microoganims and act as opsonins, faciciltating phagocytosis by alveolar macrophages
What direclty inhibit bacterial growht?
SP-A and SP-D
What directly activate macrophages?
SP-A and SP-D
What are plama protiens that are strucutally similar to collectins but they have a fibrinogen type carbohydrate recognition domain?
ficolins