The Innate Immune Response Flashcards
Innate immunity is (3)
- Non specific
- Immediately responsive
- No immunological memory
Adaptive immunity is (3)
- Antigen specific
- Lag time from exposure
- Immunological memory
Types of innate immunity (2)
- Humoral
2. Cellular
Types of adaptive immunity (2)
- Humoral
2. Cellular
Innate humoral immunity
Enzymes, cytokines
Innate cellular immunity
Phagocytes, NKCs, Pattern receptors
Macrophage
'big eater' Leukocyte, phagocyte formed from a monocyte Formed in the bone marrow Found in blood and tissue Lesser numbers but long lived
Neutrophil
Leukocyte, granulocyte
Formed in the bone marrow
Found in blood
Numerous, short lived
Two examples of white blood cells that are not circulatory
Alveolar macrophages
M (microfold) cells
M cells are found in
GALT, MALT
M cells take up antigen and
Present it to the macrophages
Professional phagocytes (5)
Monocytes Macrophages Neutrophils Tissue dendritic cells Mast cells
Tissue dendritic cells
Antigen presenting cells derived from monocytes
Mast cells
Leukocyte that releases inflammatory mediators
Phagolysosome
A cytoplasmic body formed by the fusion of a phagosome with a lysosome
Destroys bacteria
3 types of Pattern Recognition Receptors (PRRs)
- Phagocytosis mediators
- Inflammatory signal transduction initiators
- PRRs that do both
The mannose receptor
Is a PRR that mediates phagocytosis but does not initiate an inflammatory response
TB exploits the mannose receptors
to uptake TB but does not fuse to the phagolysosome
The phagosome maturation pathway
Early endosome»_space; Late endosome»_space; LE+Lysosome»_space; Phagosome
Some bacteria have evolved
Strategies to survive within the macrophage
Examples of bacteria able to survive within a macrophage
- L. pneumopholis
- S. typhimurium
- F. tularensis
- M. tuberculosis
TLRs
Toll Like Receptors
Single, membrane-spanning, non-catalytic receptors usually expressed on sentinel cells such as macrophages and dendritic cells, that recognize structurally conserved molecules derived from microbes
On the cell surface
PAMPs
Pathogen Associated Molecular Patterns
NLRs
Nod Like Receptors
Intracellular PRRs
Recognises key constituents of peptidoglycan (muramyl dipeptide and diaminopimelic acid)
TLR2
Dimerises, can link up with TLR1 and TLR6
Recognises vast array of bacterial and fungal lipoproteins glycoproteins
TLR4 recognises
LPS on G-ve
TLR5 recognises
Flagellin
NLRs contain a
a NOD domain and LRRs
nucleotide binding oligomerization domain)(leucine rich repeats
TLRs and NLRs are
Immune sensing molecules
Activates the immune cell
When the immune cell is activated, it produces
Cytokines