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Tuberculosis Flashcards

1
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How many people fell ill with TB and how many people died from TB in 2015?

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  1. 4 million people fell ill

1. 8 million died from TB

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Over 95% of TB deaths occur where?

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In low and middle income countries

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3
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TB infections are most common in which countries?

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India
South Africa
Nigeria
China
Pakistan
Indonesia
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4
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How many people are latently infected with TB?

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~2 billion

1/3 of the world’s population

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5
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What mycobacteria cause tuberculosis?

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MTBC: Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

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6
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What mycobacterium causes leprosy?

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Mycobacterium leprae

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7
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What mycobacterium causes Buruli ulcers?

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Mycobacterium ulcerans

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8
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What bacteria make up the mycobacterium tuberculosis complex?

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MBTCA
M= microti
B= bovis
T= tuberculosis
c= canetti
a= africanum
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9
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Which mycobacterium led to the BCG vaccine?

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Mycobacterium bovis

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10
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Prototuberculosis developed into?

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Different lineages

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11
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How did the different linages of TB form?

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Through regions of deletion

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12
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Where are different lineages found?

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Different lineages are found in different parts of the world. They have a phylogeographic population structure with different lineages associated with different human populations

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13
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Which lineage is most common in Europe?

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Lineage 4

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14
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Which lineages are most common in West Africa?

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Lineages 5 and 6

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15
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Which lineage is most common in India/East Africa?

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Lineage 3

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16
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Which lineage is most common in East Asia?

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Lineage 2

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17
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Lineage 2 is most common in?

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East Asia

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18
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Lineage 3 is most common in?

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India/East Africa

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Lineages 5 and 6 belong to which member of the MTBC complex?

A

Mycobacterium africanum

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20
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Which lineages form a monophyletic group?

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2,3,4

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21
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Lineages 2,3,4 form a monophyletic group through which unique deletion?

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tbD1

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22
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Which region of deletion produces lineages 5 and 6?

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RDL9

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23
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What is the MTBC?

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

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24
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Nucleotide sequence similarity in MTBC?

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99.9% similarity at nucleotide level. Have host tropism and phenotypic and pathogenic differences.

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25
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When did TB arise as a human pathogen?

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~70,000 years ago

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26
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What are some key features of mycobacteria?

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  • aerobic
  • microaerophilic
  • non-motile
  • bacilli
  • slow growing
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27
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TB doubling time?

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24 hours

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28
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Mycobacterium staining procedure is known as the?

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Acid fast staining

Ziehl-Neelsen

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29
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What is another name for the acid fast staining procedure?

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Ziehl-Neelsen

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30
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Steps in the acid fast staining procedure?

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Add carbol-fuchsin dye
Decolorise with acid-alcohol or acid-acetone solutions
Add methylene blue counter stain to stain any cells which are not acid fast

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31
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Why are mycobacterium called acid fast?

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They maintain the red colouration from the carbol-fuchsin dye as they resist decoloration by acid-alcohol and acid-acetone solutions

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32
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Describe the cell envelope of gram negative bacteria?

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Plasma membrane
Periplasmic space
Thin peptidoglycan layer
Periplasmic space
Outer membrane with lipopolysaccharide
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33
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Describe the cell envelope of gram positive bacteria?

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Plasma membrane
Thick peptidoglycan layer
Teichoic acids

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34
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What can be used to stain gram positive cells?

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Crystal violet

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35
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What can be used to stain gram negative cells?

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Counter stain safranin

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36
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Describe the mycobacterium cell envelope structure?

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Plasma membrane
PIM= phosphatidylinositol mannosides
Peptidoglycan then this is covalently linked to arabinogalactan
Arabinogalactan is covalently linked to mycolic acid
Inner leaflet of the outer membrane= mycolic acid
Outer leaflet of the outer membrane= extractible lipids including PIM and LAM= lipoarabinomannan
Capsule made of lipids, proteins and polysaccharides

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37
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What is mycolic acid?

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Mycolic acid= beta hydroxy fatty acid with alpha-alykl side chain

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38
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What is mycolic acid?

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A beta hydroxy fatty acid with an alpha-alkyl side chain

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39
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Mycolic acid length?

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C60-C90

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40
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Mycolic acid can form different?

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Conformations

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41
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Why does mycolic acid need to fold into different conformations?

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Full length mycolic acid would be too large for the inner leaflet of the outer membrane

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42
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Which mycolic acid conformation decreases the permeability of the inner leaflet and how?

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W conformation of keto-mycolates. Folds into four chains in parallel. The tight packing aids the formation of an impermeable barrier

43
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis infectivity?

A

Very infectious

Only a single particle is needed for infection

44
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Which cells first phagocytose the mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli?

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The resident alveolar macrophages

45
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What are the four categories of receptors found on macrophages?

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Scavenging receptors
Opsonising receptors
C-type lectin receptors
Innate immune sensors

46
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What are opsonising receptors?

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Fc receptors or complement receptors

47
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What are c-type lectin receptors?

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Mannose binding lectin
dectin-1
dectin-2
DC-SIGN

48
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What does TLR2 recognise?

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19kDa lipoprotein (LP)
LAM= Lipoarabinomannan
LM= Lipomannan
49
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TLR2 signals via which pathway?

50
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TLR2 leads to the production of what?

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Causes macrophages to produce IL-12

51
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One of the major receptors you need to know on macrophages for phagocytosis?

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CR3

Complement Receptor 3

52
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Tuberculosis-complement receptor 3 complex causes what?

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Prevents respiratory burst

Blocks phagosome maturation

53
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What are neutrophil NETs made out of?

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DNA, histones, nucleosomes

54
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What does NET stand for?

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Neutrophil Extracellular Traps

55
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What are lymphatic endothelial cells?

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They line lymphatic vessels

The bacteria can hide in the lymph node and cause disease when conditions are more favourable

56
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Which cytokines aid granuloma formation?

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Pro-inflammatory cytokines:
TNF-alpha
IL-12
IFN-gamma

57
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Which cytokines prevent granuloma formation?

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Anti-inflammatory cytokines

IL-10

58
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Which CD4+ response is important for granuloma formation?

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Th1 response

59
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How is the Th1 response activated?

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Th0–>Th1

Stimulated by IL-12

60
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Describe the granuloma structure?

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Necrotic area in the centre known as the caseum
You then have lots of innate immune cells including: dendritic cells, foamy macrophages, multinucleated giant cells, NK cells and neutrophils.
These are surrounded by a ring of lymphocytes

61
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What are the main lymphocytes?

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Mainly CD4+, CD8+, CD1 and γ/δ T cells

62
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What is the caseum?

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Necrotic centre
Has a ‘cheese-like’ appearance
Dead macrophages are found here
Rich in lipids

63
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Macrophages can become?

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They can fuse to from large multinucleated cells

They can differentiate to become foamy macrophages

64
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Foamy macrophages are?

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Lipid rich

65
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Foamy macrophages have lost?

A

Their phagocytic and bactericidal activities

66
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Where is mycobacterium tuberculosis found in the granuloma?

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Extracellularly in the caseum

Intracellularly in foamy macrophages

67
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Why is the bacteria found in the caseum and in foamy macrophages?

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They are lipid rich

68
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What are the conditions within the caseum like?

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Reduced vasculature
Low oxygen levels
This is why it is good that mycobacterium tuberculosis is a microaerophile

69
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Reduced oxygen and nutrient levels lead to?

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A reduction in metabolic activity

Reduction in cell division/proliferation

70
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What can cause the latent infection to then re-activate?

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Immunosuppression
HIV
Ageing
Malnutrition

71
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What is the role of vitamin D?

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Has been shown to boost the immune system

72
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How can mycobacterium tuberculosis prevent destruction within non-activated macrophages?

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Prevents phagosome maturation and phagosome fusion with the lysosome= prevents phagolysosome formation.

73
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What are the three ways in which mycobacterium tuberculosis can prevent destruction in non-activated macrophages?

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1) Receptors involved in Mtb uptake
2) Alteration of phagosomal lumen
3) Alteration of phagosomal membrane

74
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Receptors involved in Mtb uptake to avoid destruction?

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The CR3-Mtb complex is able to prevent respiratory burst and prevent the maturation of the phagosome

75
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Alteration of the phagosomal lumen?

A

sapM
PknG
Urease C
LAM

76
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sapM?

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Phagosomal fusion requires the presence of PI3P on the surface of phagosomes
PI3P= phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate
sapM is a secretory phosphatase which can dephosphorylate PI3P which arrests phagosome maturation

77
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What is sapM?

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A secretory phosphatase

78
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What is PknG?

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A secretory kinase

Serine/threonine kinase

79
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What does PknG do?

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Blocks phago-lysosome fusion

80
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How does LAM prevent degradation in non-activated macrophages?

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Inhibits cellular increase in Ca2+

Phagosome maturation arrest

81
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How does Urease C prevent phagolysosomal maturation?

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Urease C drives neutralisation of acidification in phagosomes by generation of ammonia, thereby inhibiting phagolysosomal maturation

82
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Modification of the phagosomal membrane?

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Prevention of V-ATPase

By inhibiting its function acidification of the endosome is prevented

83
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What is PknG?

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A secretory serine/threonine kinase
Able to prevent phagolysosome formation
Phagosome and lysosome fusion is prevented

84
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What is sapM?

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It is a secretory phosphatase
Dephosphorylates PI3P= phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate which is required on the surface of phagosomes. Leads to the arrest of phagosomal maturation

85
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Phagosomal arrest does not occur in?

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Activated macrophages

86
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How can macrophages overcome phagosomal arrest?

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Through activation

87
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How are macrophages activated?

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Recognition of opsonised molecules

IFN-gamma production

88
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What pH is the phagosome acidified to?

89
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How can the innate immune response promote the adaptive immune response? Provide an example?

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Macrophages produce IL-12. This can then stimulate Th0–>Th1 which leads to the production of IFN-gamma which can then activate macrophages

90
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What cells predominantly produce IFN-gamma?

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CD4+ cells

91
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CD8+ cells produce what to induce apoptosis/cell death?

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Granulysin

Perforin

92
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γδ T cells recognise antigens without?

A

Without the need for presentation on a major histocompatibility complex

93
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γδ T cells recognise what type of antigens?

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Lipid antigens

94
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CD1 restricted T cells recognise?

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Recognise lipid antigens abundant in the mycobacterial cell walls (LAM, PIM, mycolic acids) presented by the CD1 molecules

95
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The T cells have which main two functions?

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  1. Direct cytotoxic activity

2. Activation of the macrophages

96
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Activated macrophage killing pathways?

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Reactive oxygen and reactive nitrogen species

97
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Reactive oxygen pathway?

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Requires oxygen to make reactive oxygen species including superoxide and hydrogen peroxide

98
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Reactive nitrogen pathway?

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Requires L-arginine as a precursor to make e.g. nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide

99
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How do macrophages kill Mtb?

A

Oxidative and non-oxidative mechanisms

100
Q

Non-oxidative mechanisms?

A

Autophagy- immunophage

Apoptosis

101
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Autophagy stimulated by the immune system is known as?

A

Immunophagy

102
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How can TB resist death in activated macrophages, what is a mechanism?

103
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What is KatG?

A

Catalase peroxidase

104
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What can KatG do?

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Can inactivate reactive oxygen species within phagolysosomes

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