MT A 1 Flashcards
Property of the human immune system to avoid attacking its own cells.
Tolerance
Organs in which self-tolerance is acquired through recognition of self antigens.
Thymus and bone marrow
In central tolerance, after antigen presentation, immature T cells become
T regulatory cells
Mechanism of the body to develop central tolerance to Ag not present in blood stream but in tissues.
AIRE protein creates tissue-restricted antigens (TRAs) from tissular DNA.
Process through which T cells that do not recognize self Ag disappear
Negative regulation
T cell receptor that after being bound by an ACP B7 costimulator elicits an immune response.
CD28
Peripheral tolerance works though the expression of this inhibitory receptor that binds to CD28 on the T cells thus suppressing response.
CTLA-4
T reg cells express CTLA-4 that binds to B7 in ACP to
Remove B7 from the ACP
Regulatory T cells express this gene to inhibit responses to self antigens.
FOXP3
Cytokine that promotes differentiation of T cells from immature to T regs
IL-2
Immunosuppressive cytokines produced by T regs
IL-10 and TGF-B
Protein in intrinsic apoptosis that binds to Bcl-2 factors (Bax and Bak) to create pores in mitochondrial membrane.
BH3
Cytochrome c activates this enzyme in intrinsic apoptosis to fragment DNA
Endonuclease
Ligand in T cells necessary for endonuclease activation in extrinsic pathway apoptosis.
FasL
Substance necessary for extrinsic pathway apoptosis
TNF
Mechanism of action of central tolerance on B cells.
Light chain of antibody to self antigens is modified so it cannot bind
Gene most strongly associated to ankylosing spondylitis
HLA B27
Type of tolerance used for Ag not present in generative lymphoid organs and Ag expressed only in adult life.
Peripheral tolerance
Cells in charge if mantaining peripheral tolerance by supressing activation of lymphs for self Ag.
T regs
Death of immature cells that recognize antigens in the thymus
Deletion or negative selection
Protein of the thymus that allows medullary thymic epithelial cells (MTECS) to produce Ags of peripheral tissues.
AIRE protein
Disease of AIRE protein failure.
Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS1)
Cells become unresponsive to self antigens through lack of costimulation or innate immunity, or through engagement of inhibitory receptors
Anergy