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Lecture 28: Immunopharmacology Flashcards

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What are the three main application of immunosuppressive drugs?

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  • Suppression of rejection of transplanted organs and tissues
  • Suppression of graft-versus-host disease
  • Autoimmune diseases
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What is Graft-Versus-Host disease?

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When donor lymphocytes react against host, especially in bone marrow transplants

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What occurs in graft versus host disease?

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If there are immunocompetent cells in the donor graft, they can mount an immune response against the host

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What tissues are targeted in GVHD?

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Liver, skin, mucosa and gut

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What are autoimmune diseases?

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When the immune system fails to recognize antigens as part of self and attacks them

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What is Rheumatoid arthritis?

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An autoimmune disease primarily affecting the joints

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What is Lupus?

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A multi organ immune disease with a characteristic rash on cheeks

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What is ulcerative colitis?

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T-cell infiltration and ulcertation of the colon

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What is Psoriasis?

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An autoimmune disease leading to scaly patches of skin

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What are the two phases of the immune response?

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  • Induction phase

* Effector phase

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What are the two subdivisions of the induction phase?

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  • Antigen presenting

* Clonal expansion and mutation

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What is the first step in the simplified immune response?

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Antigen presentation

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What occurs in Antigen presentation?

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An antigen presenting cell presents an antigen to a T-helper cell/CD4+ lymphocyte

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how does antigen presenting affect the the T-helper cell?

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It leads to activation of the T-helper cell

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What happens after a T-helper cell is activated?

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It divides and propagates

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What is released by the T-helper cell once it is activated?

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It releases interleukin-2 (IL-2)

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What does interleukin-2 released by T-helper cells do?

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Acts on the receptors of the same cell and causes them to divide and proliferate

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What are the two types of cells that T-helper cells divide into?

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Th1 and Th2

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What do Th2 cells divide into?

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B cells

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What are B cells involved in the generation of?

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Antibodies

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What do Th1 cells differentiate into?

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Different types of T-cells

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What do Cytotoxic T-cells do?

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They bind to and kill cells that are infected with a virus

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What do Th1 cells release?

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Cytokines that that circulate and promote further activation of the immune response

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What happens in the induction phase?

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  • Antigen presenting

* Activation and proliferation of the Th0 cells

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What occurs in the effector phase?
Activation of T cells and B cells
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What are the five main steps/regulators targeted by available immunosuppressant drugs?
1. Inhibition of IL-2 2. Inhibition of cytokine gene expression (glucocorticoids) 3. Cytotoxicity (killing immune cells or preventing their maturation/expansion) 4. Inhibition of nucleic acid synthesis 5. Blockage of various T-cell surface receptors to prevent immune activation
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What are the two Calcineurin inhibitors?
Cyclosporine and Tacrolimus
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What kind of drugs are Cyclosporine and Tacrolimus?
Calcineurin inhibitors
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What do Calcineurin inhibitors target?
An early step in the activation of naive Th0 cells
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What does the activation of naive Th0 cells require?
Activation of the calcineurin-NFAT pathway
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What are the steps after the activation of T-cells?
They generate a Ca2+ signal leading to activation of calcineurin (phosphatase) and dephosphorylation of NFAT
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What does NFAT do once dephosphorylated?
Migrates to the nucleus, leading to expression of IL-2 which is required for proliferation of T-cells
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What is the target of Cyclosporine?
Cyclophilin
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What is the target of Tacrolimus?
FKBP
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What do Cyclosporine and Tacrolimus do?
Bind to the targets and suppress calcineurin which suppresses IL-2
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What is the key detail in Cyclosporine mechanism?
The generation of cyclophilin-cyclosporin complex which inhibits calcineurin
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What does the inhibition of calcineurin do?
Prevents NFAT-mediated gene transcription leading to inhibition of T-cell maturation and proliferation
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How does Cyclosporine work?
It forms a complex with cyclophilin which binds to calcineurin preventing it from dephosphorylating NFAT. So NFAT cannot go on to increase gene transcription and increase IL-2
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How does Tacrolimus work?
It binds to FKBP which inhibits the activation of calcineurin and prevents the dephosphorylation of NFAT and prevents the downstream signalling of IL-2
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What is the Proliferation Signal Inhibitor Drug?
Rapamycin aka sirolimus
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What kind of drug is Rapamycin aka Sirolimus?
A proliferation Signal Inhibitors
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How do Proliferation Signal Inhibitors work?
They interfere with the downstream signals of IL-2 receptor activation
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What does Rapamycin bind to?
FKBP (the same target as tacrolimus)
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What does the Rapamycin-FKBP complex inhibit?
A protein complex called mTOR
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What is mTOR responsible for?
Promoting cell growth and proliferation
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How does mTOR work?
It binds to FKBP which inhibits mTOR. So the cell is unable to create a response to IL-2 receptor activation
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What are the two Cytotoxic Agent drugs?
* Cyclophosphamide | * Azathioprine
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What kind of drugs are Cyclophosphamide and Azathioprine?
Cytotoxic agents
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How does Cyclophosphamide work?
It leads to cross-linking of neighboring bases interfering with DNA replication
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Where is Cyclophosphamide most effective?
In rapidly dividing cells
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How does Azathioprine work?
It is metabolized into 6-mercaptopurine and it inhibits the synthesis of nucleotides and interferes with cell division by acting as a fraudulent nucleotide
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What kind of nucleotide does Azathioprine look like?
A purine
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What are the components of antibodies?
* 2 heavy chains | * 2 light chains
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What region determines antigen specificty?
The Fab region
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What does the Fc region determine?
Antibody class (IgA, IgG, IgM etc)
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What do the different Fc regions lead to?
Different types of immune response
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Which region binds to the antigen on monoclonal antibodies?
The Fab region
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What are antibodies always raised in?
Other animals
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Why are antibodies raised in other animals a problem?
Because they are recognized by our immune system and rapidly degraded
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What is the solution to the antibody issue?
Use Chimeric or humanized version version of monoclonal antibodies
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What is the upside to using Chimeric or Humanized antibodies?
Their antigenicity is reduced so they have a higher lifeltime in the body
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What is humanization/chimerization?
The replacement of the conserved (Fc) region of mouse monoclonal antibodies with corresponding sequence from human antibodies
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What do therapeutic monoclonal antibodies end with?
mab
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What is the suffix for humanized antibodies?
-umab or - zumab
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What is the suffix from chimeric products?
-imab and -ximab
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What is Alemtuzumab and what does it recognize?
A humanized IgG1 that recognizes CD52 on many immune cell types
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What is the IgG1 Fc domain recognized by and what does it do?
Phagocytic immune cells and causes their death
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What is the IgG1 Fc domain recognized by and what does it do?
Phagocytic immune cells and causes their death
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How does Alemtuzumab work?
It binds to CD52 on immune cells and this signals phagocytic cells to kill the cell through the IgG1 domain
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How does Basiliximab work?
It is a chimeric mouse-human IgG1 that binds to CD25 part of the IL-2 receptor on activated lymphocytes and blocks IL-2 from activating lymphocytes as an antagonists
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What are the two antibody based therapies?
Basiliximab and Alemtuzumab

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