Lecture 7: Immune receptors and signal transduction Flashcards
What are the functions of cell surface receptors?
- induction of intracellular signaling
- adhesion of one cell to another
Signaling from the cell surface activates a signal that contains two phases. What are these two phases?
- cytosolic phase, where transcription factors are modified in some way
- nuclear phase, where the modified factor enters the nucleus and induces the expression of the genes it signals for
What are different ways of signal transduction at the cell surface?
- cross-linking: ligand induces clustering of receptor proteins
- ligand causes conformation to alteration to the receptor
What is the primary mechanism that integrins signal by?
- non-receptor tyrosine kinases
How do non-receptor tyrosine kinases work to be activated?
- intracellular kinase must bind and phosphorylate specific motifs on the receptor
What are examples or receptor tyrosine kinases and how do they become active?
- activated by cross-linking
- c-Kit
- insulin
- epidermal growth factor
- platelet-driven growth factor
What are nuclear receptors?
- receptors that are in or migrate to the nucleus to act as transcription factors
- controlled by lipid-soluble ligands
What group of proteins can influence lymphopoeisis?
Wnt
Which group of proteins cnotribute to cell fate during the lymphocyte development?
notch proteins
What role does Src proteins play in Ag receptor activation?
Src proteins motif act as a binding site for SH2 domains in the Syk family. The binding of Sh2 domain to phosphotyrosine interaction is what causes activation of the Ag receptor
What is the effect of having an active ITIM?
immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motif
This will counteract the ITAM, by recruiting tyrosine or inositol lipid phosphatases; leading to deactivation
How can BCR and TCR be used to direct a cell’s pathway?
The number (strength) of activated receptors can be interpreted differently by lymphocytes
How is Ag receptor signaling fine-tuned and modulated?
- progressive ITAM use
- increased cellular activation by coreceptors
- modulation of signaling by inhibitory receptors
How can progressive ITAM use contribute to modulating Ag receptor signaling?
- the Ag affinity influences how many ITAMs are phosphorylated, and can produce different types of cellular responses
What are extracellular domains on lymphocytes able to recognize?
- soluble ligands or membrane structures of neighboring cells
When a ligand binds what happens to the receptor?
- receptor undergoes a conformational alteration
What is cross-linking?
- signaling of lingand-induced clustering of receptors
Are nuclear receptors intracellular or extracellular?
- intracellular transcription factors that are activated by lipid-soluble ligands.
- these are able to cross the membrane
What does ubiquitin molecule tag a protein for?
- protein degradation
- drive signal transduction
Signaling molecules modified by covalent binding of lipids causes what at the PM?
- membrane localization of signaling molecules
What are located in the tyrosine kinase families?
- Src families
- Syk families
- Tec families
What are unique domains located on the tyrosine kinase families?
- SH2 domains bind phosphotyrosine
- Sh3 domain binds proline rich region (hydrophobic)
- PH domain recognize PIP3, phosphatidylinositol
What do SH2 domains present in the Ag receptor complex?
Syk and ZAP-70
What type of domain could a Btk tyrosine kinsae be categorized as?
PH domain, it does recognize a lipid moiety
What are adaptor proteins used for?
- link different enzymes that promote the assembly of complexes of LAT and BLNK
What doe adaptor proteins contain in terms of domains?
SH2 and SH3
In adaptor proteins what is required for them to bind to other proteins that contain SH3 domain?
proline-rich regions
In adaptor proteins what acts as a docking site for proteins with SH2 domain?
tyrosine residues
What is LAT?
integral membrane protein with functions of an adaptor
What cytosolic subunits are present areound LAT, in an unactivated T cell?
- GADS: SH3, SH3, SH2 domain
- SLP-76: SH2 domain
What happesn at the LAT adaptor protein when the T cell becomes activated?
- LAT is phosphorylated by tyrosine
- This causes PLC gamma and GADS to bind
- Proline region on P-SLP-76 binds with SH3 on GADS
- VAV binds to the (P) on SLP-76
When the LAT protein is activated it causes binding of PLCgamma and VAV. What are the effects of these binding?
VAV: induces actin cytoskeletal rearrangement
PLCgamma: Ca ion signaling
What is Fc(gamma)RIIB?
inhibitory receptor found on B cells and myeloid cells
When TCR and BCR signaling occurs clustering results, and what happens?
- conformational change to allow clustering occurs
- cytoplasmic tail of receptor exposes the ITAM motif
- Syk/Src tyrosine kinases phosphorylate tyrosine in the ITAM, by binding at the SH2 domain
- Active Syk kinase activates adaptor proteins to induce signaling downstream
How is the Ag affinity to the TCR best represented?
- the amount of ITAMs activated is directly related to length of Ag binding to the TCR
- longer binding= more ITAM phosphorylation
- short binding= less ITAM phosphorylation
How can a weak and strong signal be used in the body, specifically with TCR?
- weak TCR signaling results in positive T cell selection in the thymus
- Strong TCR signaling will result in negative T cell selection and apoptosis
What are the coreceptors for Th and Tc cells? What function do they possess?
- CD4 and CD8
- increase ITAM phosphorylation and activation of the Ag
What is the coreceptor for B cells?
- CR2/CD21
- increases the response when IgM binds with Ag
What are costimulation factors in T cell activation?
CD28-CD80/86
What is CTLA-4 and what effect will it produce?
- inhibitor or T cell receptor which will cause downregulation of immune system
What is CD22 responsible for?
- inhibitory receptor for B cells
- FC(gamma)RIIB is also inhibitory receptor for B cell
Why are CD3 and zeta proteins found in close association with the alpha/beta strands of TCR?
- TCR lack cytoplasmic tails that could induce signal-trandusction
- non-covalent binding with CD3 and zeta proteins allows the TCR to produce signal transduction