Tolerance And Mechanisms Of Autoimmunity Flashcards
What is tolerance
Controlled unresponsiveness
Where is central tolerance achieved
Thymus
How is central tolerance acheived
Deletion of t cellls with the potential to react against self at too high an affinity
What percent of T cells entering thymus fail to come out the other side
95-99
What happens when T cell is deleted
Killed, or rendered anergi(unresponsive)
Problem with anergic cells
Remain available. If activated could participate in autoimmune responses at a later stage
Indifference or ignorance
T cell fails to encounter a peptide presented bc not there or insufficient levels
In periphery available to activation possibly to self
Peripheral tolerance
When peripheral T cells encounter. Exceptionally high peripheral antigen levels, this may lead to activation induced cell death (ACID) and deletion
Example of peripheral tolerance
Common self antigen is taken up by a resting nonactivated dc. In absence of danger signal costimulatory molecules are not up regulated by DC.
Final mechanism of peripheral tolerance
Self antigens ma simply not be presented int h periphery as a mechanism of attaining and maintains tolerance through ignorance
-limit mhc
-restrict expression to intracellular compartment or to a tissue that is unavailable for presentation
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Immunologic police
Treg
The activation of Tregs s antigen __
Specific
Treg have tcr and require activation through the tcr to regulate
Once activated treg can regulate the cells around them .
What are the three Treg
CD4, CD25 cells
Tr1
TH3
CD4 CD25 T reg
CD4+, TCR +
Inhibits T cell responses
Arises naturally, mainly thymus derived;high expression of Foxp3
Foxp3
Transcription factor important in Treg function and low expression of CD127 (IL7 receptor)
TR1
CD4, TCR+
Inhibits T cell responses
Produced IL10
Arises naturally or may be induced by repeated antigen injection
TH3
CD4, TCR+
Produces TGFb
Induced by oral administration of antigen
Treg is able to suppress the activation of an effector cell recognizing the same ___ WHEN BOUNT TO SAME APC
Peptide
Autoimmunity
Loss of immunological tolerance to self
Common
What are the two main reasons for autoimmunity
- Not all T cells are deleted in the thymus and so some T cells remain available
- As discussed in, T cell receptors show enormous plasticity for the peptide -MHC complexes with which they can interact
One TCR can interact with many more that one ___
Peptide
So, under normal circumstances, there are T cells that can recognize _ antigens
Self
What happens when self t cels are activated
Tissue damage , then autoimmune disease
How may people have autoimmune disease at some point int heir life
5%
Autoimmune potential
Ubiquitous
Reflects t and B cell receptor diversity
Healthy response
Physiological autoimmunity
Non pathogenis may include t regs
Pathological autoimmunity
Results in autoimmune disease, common 5% result of complex interactions of genetic and environmental factors
Autoantigens to acetylcholine receptor
Myasthenia Travis
Autoantigens of thyroid stimulating hormone receptor
Graves
Autoantigens is thyroid peroxidases; thyroglobulin
Hashimoto thyroiditis
Autoantigens islet cell cytoplasmic targets, insulin, glutamic acid decarboxylase, IA-2, zinc transporter 8
Type 1 diabetes
H+, K+, ATPase (gastric pump); intrinsic factor
Pernicious anemia
21a hydroxylase
Addison’s disease