Memory and vaccination Flashcards
What is the primary immune response?
First time an individual’s immune system comes across a pathogen involving an immune response to an infection/vaccination
Before T/B cells have met their antigen= NAIVE
What’s a secondary (tertiary, quaternary) immune response?
the 2nd/3rd/4th time individual comes across same pathogen
Cells are antigen experienced and have immunological memory
Qualitatively and quantitatively improved
asymptomatic/very mid
Levels of antibodies over the years
Over the years after a vaccination antibody (Ab) levels rarely decline= long term immunological memory (but T cells - CD4+ and CD8+ do decline)
What makes memory B cells so good in a secondary immune response?
Produce higher affinity antibodies than plasma cells
Produce class switched antibody
Produce antibody quickly
Can re enter germinal centre an undergo somatic hypermutation and affinity maturation for a 2nd time
Have higher levels of MHC and costimulatory molecules to attract T helper cell
Characteristics of a primary immune response
Ratio of antigen specific B cell= low
IgM produced first in response (IgM>IgG)
Low affinity for antibody
Low somatic hypermutation
Characteristics of a secondary immune response
Ratio of antigen specific b cells is higher
More isotypes made (IgG, IgA)
Affinity of antibody= high
Somatic hypermutation= high
2 types of memory T cells
Central memory T cell
Effector memory T cell
How do T memory cells differ?
Occur in different locations
Traffic differently to naive T effector cells
each= have different effector functions
How do naive/effector/memory T cells
They each produce different molecules
How can naive T cell go to lymph node?
Have CCR7 chemokine receptor
lymph node has chemokine CCL21
CCR7 and CCL21 are attracted
Takes it to lymph node
Molecules that memory T cells can make
CD44- Cell adhesion molecule
CD45R0- modulate TCR signalling
CD45RA- modulate TCR signalling
What do naive T cells have on their surface?
CCR7 receptor
CD45RA
How are T memory cells produced?
Naïve T cells are activated by dendritic APC in lymph nodes (costimulation, cytokines)
Naive cells differentiate to adopt different effector phenotypes (T helper, cytotoxic cells-perforin and FAS L-made when APC makes IL-2)
Some effector cells become memory cells
Most effector cells die by mitosis after a few days
Difference between central memory t cell and effector memory T cell?
Central memory cells= express CCR7 receptor (chemokine receptor) and stay in lymphoid tissue
Effector memory T cell= lack CCR7 and migrate to tissue
How do memory T cells survive?
Cytokines IL7 and IL-15 give memory T cells survival signals