Module 5 Flashcards
What are the six stages of B cell development?
Repertoire assembly Negative selection Positive selection Searching for infection Finding infection Attacking infection
What is the role of bone marrow strolls cells during early B cell development?
They regulate B cell development through the production of IL-7
What are the functions of the surrogate light chain?
Blocks further H-chain rearrangement
Signals proliferation
Signals light chain rearrangement
What is allelic exclusion?
A cell can only express one of its two gene copies
During B cell development what are the Ig gene recombination steps?
Pro B cell - H chain gene rearrangement
Pre B cell - L chain gene rearrangement
Immature B cell - rearrangement ceases
When is a developing B cell considered an immature B cell?
When it produces IgM surface receptors and releases from stromal cells into circulation
What Ig’s do immature B cells express?
IgD and IgM
What are anergic cells?
Nonfunctional B cells that reacted with soluble antigens in the bone marrow, but are released into circulation only to die after a few days.
What is the process of receptor editing?
The additional opportunities provided to self-reactive B cells to reorganize their light chains
What happens to developing B cells that despite reorganizing their lights chains are still self reactive?
Apoptosis
What is clonal deletion?
The death of self reactive developing B cells
What is the process of negative selection?
The elimination of self-reactive immature cells
What kinds of lymphocytes undergo negative selection?
B and T cells
What is central tolerance?
The immunological tolerance to self by B and T cells
What does peripheral tolerance do?
The peripheral tissues sometimes catch escaped self reactive B and T cells
What happens to naive B cells after the exit the bone marrow?
They head to the lymph nodes for positive selection by the FDC
What does FDC stand for?
Follicular dendritic cells, the structural stromal cells that interact with immature B cells and positively select for survival
Final two phases of B cell development depends on what?
An encounter with an antigen
What are the four steps that B cells go through in their final development phases in the lymph node?
- Mature naive B cell encounters Ag
- Activation via partnership with Th
- Migration to primary follicle
- Proliferation and differentiation in German centers
What are the four stages of B cell development that occurs in the bone marrow?
- Stem cell
- Pro B cell
- Pre B cell
- Immature B cell