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Lecture 9: Innate Immunity Flashcards

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What is the anatomic barrier?

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Prevents the entry and colonization of many microbes

  • Skin: Sebum produces low pH to inhibit microbial growth
  • Mucous membrane: trap organisms in mucus and propel them out of body
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What is inflammation?

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Complex reaction as a result from any sort of injury

  • Normal conditions: protective
  • Pathological conditions: inflammation is chronic
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What are the signs for inlammation

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Swelling
Redness
Heat
Pain

Due to mast cells producing prostaglandins, leukotrienes, and histamine

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What are the steps for an acute inflammatory response? What cells are involved?

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Step 1: Injury and microbes enter
Step 2: Microbes activate sentinel cells
-Mast Cells
-Macrophages
-Dendritic Cells
Step 3: Sentinel cells secrete inflammatory mediators
Step 4: Increased vascular permeability allows fluid and proteins enter tissues
Step 5: Complement, Abs, and anti-microbial proteins kill microbes
Step 6: Leukocytes enter tissue and kill microbes

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What are side effects to inflammation?

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Pain: due to inflammatory mediators stimulating nerves

Body Reactions: chill, fever, muscle ache

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How does fever occur?

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Infection triggers production of pyrogenic cytokines:

TNF, IL-1, IL-6 in macrophages

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How do innate immune cells recognize non-self cells?

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Innate cells look for PAMPs

  • unique to pathogens
  • cannot be altered
  • no structural similarity to self Ags
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How do Toll-Like receptors work?

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Step 1: Recognize microbes by forming pairs with microbes
(via PAMPs)

Step 2: Activate transcription factors

  • NFkB: promotes various cytokines and adhesion molecules (MOST IMPORTANT)
  • TRIF and MyD 88: Adaptor proteins
  • IRF (interferon): signalling for virus
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What does the pairing of TLR 1/2 or TLR 2/6 recognize?

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Tuberulosis

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What does TLR 3 recognize?

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Certain viruses

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What does TLR 4 recognize?

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Bacteria in GI tract

e.g. E. coli

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What does TLR 5 recognize?

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Bacteria with flagella

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What does TLR 7-9 recognize?

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Certain viruses

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Which TLRs recognize extracellular pathogens?

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TLR 1, 2, 4, 5, 6

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Which TLRs recognize intracellular pathogens?

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TL 3, 7, 8, 9

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Which TLRs recognize bacteria?

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TLR 1, 2, 4, 5, 9

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Which TLRs recognize viruses?

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TLR 3, 7, 8, 9

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Which TLRs recognize fungi?

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TLR 2, 6

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What deficiencies in TLR can cause recurring infections?

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MyD88 and IRAK-4 deficiency

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What do NOD-like receptors do?

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When activated by PAMPs, inflammasomes containing NLR will trigger activation of NFkB and pro-caspase 1.

Caspase 1 will activated IL-1B and IL-18, potent pro-inflammatory cytokines

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Anti IL-1B and IL-18 therapy is used for what disease?

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What are DAMPs?

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Damage associated molecular patterns from dead or dying self cells

  • example: necrosis
  • recognized by macrophages
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What are the downstream effects of DAMPs?

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NFkB is activated

Stimulate production of TNF alpha and IL-1

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What diseases come from DAMPs?

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Plays role in autoimmune disorders

-Diabetes I, MS, Lupus, Rheumatoid arthritis

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What are the steps of a PRR triggered response in phagocytes?
Step 1: fMET is a prokaryote constituent recognized by immune system Step 2: Phagocytes bind to pathogen using fMET Step 3: Initiate phagocytosis
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What do macrophages produce in response to PAMPs and DAMPs?
1) Cytokines and chemokines 2) ROI 3) NO 4) Prostaglandins 5) Cationic proteins and polypeptides
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What the functions of macrophages?
1) Activated by PAMPs and DAMPs 2) Chemotaxis and Tissue Inflammation 3) Phagocytosis, Scavenger function, Tissue repair 4) Effector function 5) Antigen presentation to T cells 6) Immunomodulation
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How do mast cells react to PAMPs and DAMPs?
Express receptors for PAMPs and DAMPs | -can amplify or suppress response
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Where do mast cells tend to reside?
- Sites exposed to external environment (skin) | - Close to blood vessels (regulate vascular permeability)
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How do mast cells modulate behavior of nearby cells?
1) Release of inflammatory chemicals 2) Increased permeability of neutrophils and monocytes 3) Diapedesis: blood enters 4) Chemotaxis 5) Phagocytosis
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What activates mast cells?
1. IgE and Ag 2. PAMPs 3. Cytokines and chemokines 4. C3a and C5a complement 5. Temp and pressure 6. cell to cell contact
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What do effector molecules do mast cells release?
Early (Seconds): Histamine Proteases TNF Later (Minutes) : Prostaglandins Leukotrienes Latest (hours): Cytokines: IL-4 and TNF
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What are cytokines?
Small proteins that mediate inflammation, immunity, and hematopoiesis - can work short range and long range - both pro and anti inflammatory
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What are the two important anti-inflammatory cytokines?
IL-10 and TGF-B
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What are the steps in classical complement pathway
Step 1: Create C3 convertase (C4bC2a) Step 2: Create C5 convertase (C4bC2aC3b) Step 3: Create MAC complex to lyse cell
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What inflammatory cytokines are important for the acute phase of inflammation?
IL-6 IL-1 TNF alpha
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What acute phase proteins can you measure for a diagnosis of inflammation?
C reactive proteins Serum amyloid A Mannose Binding protein alpha 1 acid glycoprotein
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Where do neutrophils and monocytes enter infected sites of injury?
Enter through post-capillary venules | In lungs, liver, and kidney, they enter via capillaries
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How do neutrophils enter tissue?
Leukocyte Extravasation Step 1: Inflammatory signals (TNF alpha and IL-1) from mast cells are activated Step 2: Endothelial cells to activate PAF, P-selectin, and E-selectin on surface Step 3: Leukocytes rolls on endothelial cells until PAF receptor binds with PAF (low affinity) Step 4: I-CAM on endothelial cells stop leukocytes from rolling and to firmly adhere (high affinity) Step 5: Leukocyte migrates between endothelial cells to tissue. Follow IL-8 to inflammatory site
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What activates M1 macrophages (classical)?
Induced By: IFN-gamma cytokines Microbial products binding to TLR Produces: ROS, NO, IL-1, IL-12, IL-23 Result: Promote inflammation
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What activates M2 macrophages (alternative)?
Induced by: IL-4 and IL-13 Produces: IL-10 and TGF-B Result: Anti-inflammatory effects
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How do PRR (patter recognition receptors) play a role in phagocytosis
After microbe binds to PRR, microbe undergoes phagocytosis. Lysosome will fuse with phagosome and kill microbe via ROS and NO.
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How do lysosomes kill microbes?
1. Oxygen consumption is increased 2. Superoxide anion is produced 3. Superoxide quickly converted to Hydrogen Peroxide 4. H2O2 kills microbes 5. H2O2 is broken down by catalase 5. Resulting hydroxyl radicals react with organic molecules
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Is inflammation efficient against intracellular pathogens?
ABSOLUTELY NOT
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How is the anti-viral innate immune response mediated?
Type I Interferons alpha and beta -block viral replication Natural Killer Cells
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How do NK cells work?
1) NK cells recognize infected cells and kill them through apoptosis - Via perforins and granzymes 2) NK cells release IFN-gamma to activate macrophages 3) Macrophages kill phagocytized microbes
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What are NK activating and inhibiting receptors?
Activating: Killer Cell Immunoglobulin-like receptors e.g. MICA and MICB -triggers tyrosine kinases Inhibitory Class I MHC and Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases If the binding between KIR and MHC I is strong, host cell will be spared
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How do cells of innate immunity regulate and adaptive immune response?
Signals needed for lymphocyte activation 1) Recognition of microbial antigen by T cell 2) Signal from APC (dendritic or macrophage) 3) Cytokines

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