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what are innate immune cells?

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macrophage: eats stuff
neutrophil: kills stuff

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what are adaptive immune cells/

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T cell: orchestrates immune response/kills infected cells
B cell: makes antibody

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what is adaptive immunity?

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tailored response to a specific antigen
involves expansion of antigen specific lymphocytes
forms memory cells –> long lasting immunity

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why do we need adaptive immunity?

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to clear infecttions
protects from repeat infections with same pathogens

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give a problem of adaptive immunity

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autoimmunity

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When is an adaptive immune response generated?

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Once the pathogen overwhelms innate defense mechanisms

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what’re the 2 types adaptive immune response?

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T cell: cell mediated response
B cells: humoral response

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what do T cells do?

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produce cytokines to help shape immune response (CD4)
kill infected cells(CD8)

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what do B cells do?

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produce antibodies

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what is an antigen?

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molecule that induces an adaptive immune response (mostly protein)

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what is an epitope?

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region of an antigen which the receptor binds to

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how does clonal expansion occur?

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interaction between foreign molecule and specific receptor on lymphocyte –> activation and clonal expansion

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what is the antigen receptor diversity problem?

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to deal with antigen diversity needs encode a massive repetoire of lymphocyte. receptors
would need 10^15 Dif genes cogenerate 10^15 dif antibody molecules

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how is antigen receptor diversity generated?

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by recombination

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when do function genes of antigen receptors exist?

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not until they are generated during lymphocyte development

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what are the 3 BCR chains?

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kappa, lamda, heavy chain genes

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what encodes each BCR receptor chain?

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separate multigene families on Dif chromosomess

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what happens to gene segments during B cell maturation?

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rearranged and brought together

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how is the diversity of the lymphocyte repertoire created?

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immunoglobulin gene rearrangement

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what does the TCR do?

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recognises antigen fragments presented by other cells in the context of MHC

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what is the major histocompatibility complex (MHC)?

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plays a central role in defining self and non-self
presents antigens to T cells
critical in surgery and donor matching

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give features of MHC class I

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all nucleated cells, although at various levels
has a single variable alpha chain and a common beta micro globulin

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what do T cells recognise?

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linear epitopes, MHC class I

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what do B cells recognise?

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tertiary structure of the protein

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what is the MHC?
major histocompatibility complex
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what is the main purpose of B cells?
make antibodies
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what are the 3 core protective roles of antibodies?
1. neutralisation 2. opsonisation 3. complement activation
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how does antibody neutralisation work?
antibody prevents bacterial adherence
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how does antibody opsonisation work?
antibody promotes phagocytosis
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how does complement activation work?
antibody activates complement, which enhances opsonisation and lyses some bacteria
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what is complement?
a cascade of immune responses
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what are the 5 antibody classes?
IgG, IgM, IgA, IgD, IgE
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describe IgG
main antibody found in blood highest opsonisation and neutralisation activities classified into 4 subclasses (IgG1, IgG2, IgG3 and IgG4) memory antibody
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describe IgM
produced first upon antigen invasion, increases transiently less specific but more sticky than IgG make IgM earlier, then switch to IgG
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describe IgA
expressed in mucosal tissues forms dimers after secretion
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describe IgD
unknown function
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describe IgE
involved in allergy
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what's the difference between the different classes of antibodies?
different constant region affects the type of receptors it binds to
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what are B cells?
white blood cells lymphocytes effector cells of humoral immunity --> secrete antibodies memory B cells (prevent repeat infections)
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where are B cells derived from?
stem cells in the bone marrow
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where do B cells migrate into?
the circulation (blood, lymphatic system) and into lymphoid tissues
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what does the unique binding site on the BCR do?
binds to a portion of the antigen called antigenic determinant or epitope
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when is the BCR made?
before the cell ever encounters antigen
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how are B cells different to T cells?
don't need MHC to present antigen B cells can bind soluble antigens
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how do B cells make antibodies?
need to communicate w a T cellls s naive antigen-specific lymphocytes (B or T) can be activated by antigen bone. naive B cells require accessory signal. 1. directly from microbial constituents 2. from a T helper cell
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what are the 2 pathways by which antibody production by B cells is achieved?
ones that require T helper cells (thymus dependent)- all Ig-classes memory ones that don't require T helper cells (thymus independent)- only IgM, no memory
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what do T independent B cells recognise?
sugar molecules, polysaccharides, needs to have a repetitive structure BCRs cluster together, activating immune response
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how does B cell activation by T cells work?
1. the membrane bound BCR recognises antigen 2. the receptor-bound antigen is internalised and degraded into peptides 3. peptides associate with 'self' molecules (MHC class II) and is expressed at the cell surface 4. this complex is recognised by matched CD4 T helper cel 5. B cell activated
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what does MHCII do?
samples the environment and chops the cell up into smaller pieces
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give features of MHC class II
normally only on 'professional' antigen presenting cells has 2 chains: alpha and beta
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give features of MHC gene expression
encoded by HLA genes in humans MHC is polygenic: 3 class I and class II loci more than 17,000 MHC variants expression is co-dominant (maternal and paternal genes both expressed) so ech person can have up too 6 of each gene if completely heterozygous

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