Lecture 4 II Flashcards
opsonization and phagocytosis
C3b
C3a
inflammation
inflammation 2nd round
C5a
after C5a
Lysis of microbe
what consists of several plama proteins that work together to opsonize microbes,
to promote the recruitment of phagocytes to the site of infection,
and in some cases to directly kill the microbes
the complement system
What are 3 things that can initiate the complement system?
Classical pathway
Alternative pathway
lectin pathway
What is the second step of complement activation?
C3b and formation of C3 convertase
What does C3b initiate activation of?
C5 and the formation of C5 convertase
What is the last step in the complement activation?
the formation of membrane attack complex, bc it creates holes in the plasma membrane
An inactive precursor enzyme called a zymogen is altered to become an active protease that cleaves the next complement protein in the cascasde…
proteolytic cascade
What does an enzymatic cascade result in?
A temendous amplification of the amount of proteolytic products that are generated
What does the proteolytic products that are generated perform?
vaious effector functions of the complement system
What does the complement system work in cooperation with?
Other medically important proteolytic casesed that include
the blood coagulation pathways
the kinin-kallikrein system that regulates vascular permeability
How does C3 b bind to a microbe?
covalent binding which forms C5 convertase
All three complexes of the complement pathways result in?
sequential recruitment and assembly of additional complement proteins into protease complexes
What cleaves the central protein of the complemetn system, C3?
C3 convertase
What does C3 convertase cleaving C3 produce?
C3a and C3b
What happens to the C3b fragment?
It becomes covalently attached to the microbial surface
What serves as an opsonin to promote phagocytosis of the microbes?
C3b
When the C3b fragment is realeased, it stimulates?
inflammation by acting as a chemoattractant for neutrophils
What do C3b binding to other completment proteins form?
A protease called C5 convertase, that cleaves C5
What does C5 convertase cleaving C5 produce?
a released peptide (C5a) and a larger fragment (C5b) that remains attached to the microbial cell membranes
C5a has a very important chemoattractant role of?
changing the permeabilliy of blood vessels
C5b initiates the formation of what complexes?
the complement proteins C6, C7, C8, and C9, which are assembled into a membrane pore