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Lecture 4: Innate Immunity Pt. 2 Flashcards

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Describe the process of opsonization of particulate antigens by C3b and phagocytosis

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  • C3b component of complement attaches to an antigen (such as bacteria)
  • C3b binding allows the antigen to bind to a phagocytic receptor on a phagocyte, and the particle is internalized into a phagosome
  • The phagosome combinds with granules containing hydrolytic enzymes, making the phagolysosome.
  • Oxygen (in)dependent mechanisms kill the pathogen
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What is the acute phase response responsible for?

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  • The production of innate immune effector cells such as neutrophils
  • Production of soluble molecules such as cytokines and complement components
  • the fever response.
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What initially causes the acute phase response? What does this lead to?

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  • A local acute inflammatory response causes the acute phase response.
  • This causes the release of inflammatory cytokines and TNF, which act on the brain and bone marrow to produce immune cells and other responses.
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Local acute inflammatory response -> brain ….

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Hypothalamus-> prostaglandins -> fever

ACTH from pituitary -> adrenal cortex -> corticosteroids -> liver -> ACUTE PHASE PROTEINS: C-reactive protein (CRP), serum amyloid A (SAA), fibrinogen, mannose-binding protein, complement components

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Acute phase proteins produced by the liver (5)

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C-reactive protein (CRP), serum amyloid A (SAA), fibrinogen, mannose-binding protein, complement components

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What inflammatory cytokines interact with cells in the hypothalamus during the acute phase response?

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IL-1, TNF-alpha, IL-6

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What inflammatory cytokines act on the liver during the acute phase response?

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IL-1, TNF-alpha, IL-6, OSM

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What inflammatory cytokines act on bone marrow during the acute phase response?

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IL-6, TNF-alpha

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The four innate immune effector cells

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  • Neutrophils
  • Macrophages
  • Dendritic Cells
  • Natural Killer Cells
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Functions of neutrophils (3)

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  • Phagocytosis
  • Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species
  • Antimicrobial peptides
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Functions of macrophages (6)

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  • Phagocytosis
  • Inflammatory mediators
  • Antigen presentation
  • Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species
  • Cytokines
  • Complement proteins
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Functions of dendritic cells (6)

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  • Phagocytosis
  • Antigen presentation
  • Costimulatory signals
  • Reactive oxygen species
  • Interferon
  • Cytokines
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Functions of NK cells (3)

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  • Lysis of viral-infected cells
  • Interferon
  • Macrophage activation
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Which innate immune effector cells present antigen?

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Macrophages and dendritic cells

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Which innate immune effector cells are able to phagocytose?

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Neutrophils, macrophages, and dendritic cells

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How do neutrophils, macrophages, and dendritic cells that bind microbes via pattern recognition receptors or opsonin receptors kill microbes after phagocytosis?

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Phagocytosis activates these cells, which causes a respiratory burst that generates reactive oxygen and nitrogen intermediates that kill the microbe.

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What enzyme is produced by activated neutrophils and macrophages, and what is produced with this enzyme?

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Activated neutrophils and macrophages express inducible nitric oxide synthase that produces nitric oxide with potent antimicrobial activity

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Which phagocytic cells can kill microbes by nonoxidative means?

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Neutrophils and macrophages

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What nonoxidative mechanisms can be used to kill microbes?

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Hydrolytic enzymes and antimicrobial peptides

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Human receptors that trigger phagocytosis

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  • C-type lectin receptors (CLRs)
  • Scavenger receptors
  • Collagen-domain receptors
  • Complement receptors
  • Immunoglobulin Fc receptors
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Pattern recognition receptors that trigger phagocytosis in humans (2)

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  • C-type lectin receptors (CLRs)

- Scavenger receptors

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Opsonin receptors that trigger phagocytosis in humans (3)

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  • Collagen domain receptors
  • Complement receptors
  • Immunoglobulin Fc receptors
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C-type lectin receptor examples (3)

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  • Mannose receptor
  • Dectin 1
  • DC-SIGN
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Scavenger receptor examples (2)

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  • SR-A

- SR-B

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Collagen-domain receptor example (1)

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CD91/calreticulin

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Complement receptor examples (5)

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  • CR1
  • CR3
  • CR4
  • CRIg
  • C1qRp
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Immunoglobulin Fc receptor examples (2)

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  • FcαR

- FcγRs

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The C-type lectin mannose receptors binds:

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Mannans (bacteria,fungi, parasites)

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The C-type lectin receptor Dectin-1 binds

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beta-glucans (fungi, some bacteria

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The C-type lectin receptor DC-SIGN binds

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Mannans (bacteria, fungi, parasites

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SR-A binds

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LPS, LTA (bacteria)

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SR-B binds

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LTA, lipoproteins, diacylglycerides (bacteria), B-glucans (fungi)

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The collagen domain receptor CD91/calreticulin binds

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Collectins SP-A, SP-D, MBL; L-ficolin; C1q

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Complement receptors CR1, CR3, CR4, CRIg, and C1qRp bind

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Complement components and fragments

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Immunoglobulin Fc receptor FcαR binds

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Specific IgA antibodies bound to antigen

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Immunoglobulin Fc receptor FcγRs binds

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Specific IgG antibodies bound to antigen, C-reactive protein

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The 5 steps of phagocytosis

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  1. Bacterium becomes attached to membrane evaginations called pseudopodia
  2. Bacterium is ingested, forming phagosome
  3. Phagosome + lysosome= phagolysosome
  4. Bacterium is killed and digested by lysosomal enzymes
  5. Digestion products are released from the cell
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Four major reactive oxygen species

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  • Superoxide anion (O2-)
  • Hydroxyl radical ( •OH)
  • Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)
  • Hypochlorous acid (HClO)
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How does regular O2 get converted to the four ROS?

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Oxygen + NADPH phagosome oxidase enzyme -> Superoxide anion
Superoxide anion + Superoxide dismutase -> H2O2 -> Hydroxyl radicals
H2O2 + Cl- + Myeloperoxidase -> Hypochlorous acid

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Oxygen + ________ -> Superoxide anion

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NADPH phagosome oxidase enzyme

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Superoxide anion + ________ -> H2O2

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Superoxide dismutase

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H2O2 + Cl- + _________ -> Hypochlorous acid

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Myeloperoxidase

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Reactive Nitrogen Species (3)

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  • Nitric oxide (NO)
  • Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)
  • Peroxynitrite (ONOO-)
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What amino acid is converted to an RNS?

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L-arginine

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L-arginine + ______ -> Nitric oxide

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Inducible nitric oxide synthase

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Nitric oxide + superoxide anion –>

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ONOO- (peroxynitrite)

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Nitric oxide can be converted to 2 things (with 1 byproduct):

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Peroxynitrite
Nitrogen dioxide (S-nitrosothiols byproduct)
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ROS and RNS are expressed after interaction with

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Pattern Recognition Receptors (PRRs)

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T/F: ROS and RNS can only kill internalized pathogens

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False. ROS and RNS are also released from activated neutrophils and macrophages to kill extracellular pathogens

50
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NK cells are (specific/nonspecific) cytotoxic effector cells that provide early defence against ___ (2 things)

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  • Nonspecific

- Viruses and cancer

51
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What is similar and different between NK cells and T cells?

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  • NK cells and T cells aris from the same progenitor cells but do not develop exclusively in the thymus
  • NK cells do not express TCR, CD3, or CD8 like T cells do
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What do NK cells expres that is also expressed in T cells?

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IL-2 receptor beta chains, Fc receptor for IgG, CD2, and CD16

53
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Unlike T cells, NK cells do not recognize foreign antigens via:

54
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IFN-γ is produced by NK cells. What function does it have?

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INF-γ increases the microbial activity of macrophages and impacts adaptive immunity by promoting Th1 differentiation, inhibiting Th2 development, and driving CTL development

55
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How does IFN-γ impact adaptive immunity?

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  • Promotes Th1 differentiation
  • Inhibits Th2 development
  • Drives cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) development
56
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What rapidly activates NK cells when there is viral infection? (3)

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IL-12 produced by dendritic cells, IFN-alpha, and IFN-beta

57
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IFN-γ produced by NK cells induces the production of

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Virus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs)

58
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What effect to IFN-alpha and IFN-beta have on NK cells?

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They activate NK cells and increase their lytic activity against virus-infected cells

59
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NK cells use a ________ to discriminate between healthy and infected cells

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dual receptor system

60
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What induces NK cell mediated cytotoxicity, cytokine synthesis, and proliferation?

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A loss of the inhibitory signal coupled with an activating signal, or a very strong activating signal that overrides the inhibitory signal.

61
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An important category of activating receptor is _____. What do they recognize?

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C-type lectins. They recognize altered carbohydrate structures on virus infected cells or cancer cells

62
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Inhibitory receptors consist of 2 types:

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  • Lectin-like inhibitory receptors

- Killer cell inhibitory receptors

63
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How do lectin-like and killer cell inhibitory receptors act?

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They deliver an inhibitory signal following interaction with class I MHC molecules

64
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Viruses (up/down)-regulate class I MHC molecules

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Downregulate

65
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Target cells that express low levels of class I MHC are (detected/undetected) by NK cells

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Detected by NK cells because there is no interaction of class I MHC with the inhibitory receptor on the NK cell

66
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NKG2D; structure, ligands, inhibiting/activating

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Lectin-like
Binds MHC class I
Mostly activating

67
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Natural cytotoxicity receptors (NCRs) ; structure, ligands, inhibiting/activating

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Immunoglobulin family
Binds heparin sulfate on tumor cells
Most (all?) activating

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KIR receptors; structure, ligands, activating/inhibiting

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Immunoglobulin family
Binds MHC class I; HLA-B and HLA-C
Mostly inhibiting

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Ly49; structure, ligands, activating/inhibiting

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Lectin-like
Binds MHC class 1 and homologs
Mostly inhibiting

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Lectin-like NK cell receptors (2)

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NKG2D and Ly49

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Immunoglobulin family NK cell receptors (2)

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Natural cytotoxicity receptors (NCRs) and KIR

72
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Granule dependent killing by NK cells

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Cytotoxic granules are polarized toward the site of contact with the target cell after the activating receptor C16 (IgG FcR) is triggered. This causes the exocytosis of granzyme B and perforin, causes death via apoptosis

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Death ligand killing by NK cells

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Fas ligand or TRAIL on the NK cell triggers apoptosis when they interact with target cell death receptors. NK cells secrete TNF-alpha, which can kill virus infected cells that have upregulated their TNF receptor

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Two types of PRRs of innate immunity and what they recognize

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Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and Nod-like receptors (NLRs). Recognize structural motifs (PAMPs) in microbes that are highly conserved and usually necessary for their survival

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What do PRRs activate?

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Innate and inflammatory responses

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What do TLRs and NLRs recognize on dead, dying, and aging cells? What does this recognition lead to?

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Damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs), such as heat shock proteins, which are not expressed on healthy cells. Recognition causes the clearance of these cells by macrophage-mediated phagocytosis.

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How do TLRs bind to PAMPs and DAMPs?

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Via their leucine-rich repeat (LRR) domains that make up the extracellular ligand-binding structure

78
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Ligand binding to the TLR induces 2 things:

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TLR dimerization and signal transduction

79
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T/F: TLRs promote phagocytosis

80
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What activates NLRs?

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extracellular PAMPs and DAMPs

81
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Two additional important PRRs are:

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C-type lectin receptors (CLRs) and retinoic acid-inducible gene-I-like receptors (RLRs)

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C-type lectin receptor function

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Bind carbohydrates on the surface of pathogens and promote phagocytosis

83
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RLR function

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Bind viral RNAs

84
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PRRs are found on:

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  • Myeloid cells
  • Lymphocyte subsets
  • Cells commonly exposed to pathogens (skin, mucosal epithelial cells, endothelial cells, and fibroblasts)
85
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TLRs have two main structural features:

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Leucine-rich repeats (LRRs) and the Toll/IL-1 receptor (TIR) domain

86
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Function of LRRs on TLR

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Horse shoe shaped extracellular and endosomal binding domain for TLR ligands

87
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Function of the toll/IL-1 receptor (TIR) domain

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Interacts with adaptor molecules that function as sorting receptors for other adaptor molecules

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TLRs that recognize cell surface structures on pathogens are located:

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On the cell surface

89
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TLRs that recognize nucleic acids are located:

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Inside cells

90
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TLR 4 on the plasma membrane recognizes:

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LPS on gram-negative bacteria

91
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TLR4 on endosome/lysosome membranes recognizes:

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Viral proteins

92
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TLR5 on the plasma membrane interacts with:

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Flagellated bacteria

93
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TLR 3 on endosomes/lysosome membranes recognizes

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viral dsRNA

94
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TLR9 on endosome/lysosome membranes recognizes

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CPG motifs on bacterial and viral DNA

95
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TLR2 and TL6 on the plasma membrane recognize

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Peptidoglycan and zymosan of gram-positive bacteria and fungi

96
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TLR7 and TLR8 on endosome/lysosome membranes recognize

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viral ssRNA

97
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TLR11 on the plasma membrane recognizes

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Uropathogenic bacteria

98
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Signalling through TLRs can be dependent on one of two things:

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MyD88 or TRIF

99
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4 adaptor proteins involved with TLR signalling

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MyD88, TRIF, TIRAP, TRAM

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TIRAP function

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Promotes MyD88 recruitment to cell-surface TLRs 2/1, 2/6, and 4.

101
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TRAM function

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promotes TRIF recruitment to endosomal TLR3 and TLR4

102
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MyD88-dependent TLR signaling activates 3 things:

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  • MAPK pathways
  • Interferon regulatory factors (IRF)
  • NF-κB
103
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TRIF-dependent pathways activate 2 things, which induces the expression of _______

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Activation of MAPKs and IRFs to induce IFN-alpha/beta expression

104
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Most TLRs are expressed by

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Immature dendritic cells

105
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TLRs are direct inducers of

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dendritic cell maturation

106
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What does a maturing dendritic cell express (2), upregulate and produce?

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Expresion of CD80/CD86 and CD40
Upregulation of MHC II
Production of IL-12

107
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What indirectly induces dendritic cells to mature?

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Response to TNF and IL-1

108
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Mature dendritic cells are no longer phagocytic; instead, they:

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present antigen

109
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Mature dendritic cells upregulate ______ and migrate to ______

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CCR7 (chemokine receptor); lymph nodes

110
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Monocytes, macrophages, dendritic cells, neutrophils, and T and B cell subsets express:

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At least 15 human C-type lectin receptors (CLRs)

111
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Upon binding to _____ of microbes, some CLRs trigger ______ while all trigger _______

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Carbohydrate components (e.g. glucans); phagocytosis; signalling pathways

112
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CLR signalling is similar to the distal events of MyD88-dependent TLR signaling because ___ and ___ are activated

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NF-κB and AP-1

113
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When CLR and TLR signaling occur in the same cell:

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They combine to enhance the production of inflammation-promoting cytokines

114
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retinoic acid-inducible gene-I-like receptors (RLR) stimulation by viral dsRNA induces:

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IFN-alpha/beta via IRF7/3

115
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NF-κB regulates inflammation-promoting genes in 5 categories:

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  • Inflammatory cytokines
  • Chemokines
  • Adhesion molecules on endothelial cells
  • Immune effector molecules
  • Costimulatory molecules
116
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Inflammatory cytokines upregulated by NF-κB (6)

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TNF-alpha, IL-1, IL-6, IL-12, GM-CSF, IFN-alpha/beta

117
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Chemokines upregulated by NF-κB (4)

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IL-8, MCP, RANTES, eoxtaxin

118
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Adhesion molecules on endothelial cells upregulated by NF-κB (4)

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ICAM-1, VCAM-1, E-selectin, P-selectin

119
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Immune effector molecules upregulated by NF-κB (2)

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Inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS, involved in making RNS), defensins

120
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Costimulatory molecules upregulated by NF-κB (2)

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CD40 and CD80/CD86 on dendritic cells

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