Lecture 7: Immune receptors and signal transduction Flashcards
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What are the functions of cell surface receptors?
- induction of intracellular signaling
- adhesion of one cell to another
Signaling from the cell surface activates a signal that contains two phases. What are these two phases?
- cytosolic phase, where transcription factors are modified in some way
- nuclear phase, where the modified factor enters the nucleus and induces the expression of the genes it signals for
What are different ways of signal transduction at the cell surface?
- cross-linking: ligand induces clustering of receptor proteins
- ligand causes conformation to alteration to the receptor
What is the primary mechanism that integrins signal by?
- non-receptor tyrosine kinases
How do non-receptor tyrosine kinases work to be activated?
- intracellular kinase must bind and phosphorylate specific motifs on the receptor
What are examples or receptor tyrosine kinases and how do they become active?
- activated by cross-linking
- c-Kit
- insulin
- epidermal growth factor
- platelet-driven growth factor
What are nuclear receptors?
- receptors that are in or migrate to the nucleus to act as transcription factors
- controlled by lipid-soluble ligands
What group of proteins can influence lymphopoeisis?
Wnt
Which group of proteins cnotribute to cell fate during the lymphocyte development?
notch proteins
What role does Src proteins play in Ag receptor activation?
Src proteins motif act as a binding site for SH2 domains in the Syk family. The binding of Sh2 domain to phosphotyrosine interaction is what causes activation of the Ag receptor
What is the effect of having an active ITIM?
immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motif
This will counteract the ITAM, by recruiting tyrosine or inositol lipid phosphatases; leading to deactivation
How can BCR and TCR be used to direct a cell’s pathway?
The number (strength) of activated receptors can be interpreted differently by lymphocytes
How is Ag receptor signaling fine-tuned and modulated?
- progressive ITAM use
- increased cellular activation by coreceptors
- modulation of signaling by inhibitory receptors
How can progressive ITAM use contribute to modulating Ag receptor signaling?
- the Ag affinity influences how many ITAMs are phosphorylated, and can produce different types of cellular responses
What are extracellular domains on lymphocytes able to recognize?
- soluble ligands or membrane structures of neighboring cells
When a ligand binds what happens to the receptor?
- receptor undergoes a conformational alteration
What is cross-linking?
- signaling of lingand-induced clustering of receptors
Are nuclear receptors intracellular or extracellular?
- intracellular transcription factors that are activated by lipid-soluble ligands.
- these are able to cross the membrane
What does ubiquitin molecule tag a protein for?
- protein degradation
- drive signal transduction
Signaling molecules modified by covalent binding of lipids causes what at the PM?
- membrane localization of signaling molecules
What are located in the tyrosine kinase families?
- Src families
- Syk families
- Tec families
What are unique domains located on the tyrosine kinase families?
- SH2 domains bind phosphotyrosine
- Sh3 domain binds proline rich region (hydrophobic)
- PH domain recognize PIP3, phosphatidylinositol
What do SH2 domains present in the Ag receptor complex?
Syk and ZAP-70
What type of domain could a Btk tyrosine kinsae be categorized as?
PH domain, it does recognize a lipid moiety