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Type 2 hypersensitivity
Antibody-mediated (usually IgG1/IgG3, NOT IgE)
Frustrated Phagocytosis and tissue damage
When an object is too large to be phagocytosed, the macrophage begins unloading its weapons on it, causing damage to the tissue around it
autoantigen
self antigen
autoantibody
self reactive
Phagocytes are recruited by
C5a, c3a
phagocytes are activated by
by antibody binding to FcyR1, or C3b to CR1
myasthenia gravis
autoantibody to acetylcholine receptors on muscle cells. Leads to PARALYSIS
Transfusion Reaction
Patient's antibody reacts with antigens on transfused red blood cells
Type 2 hypersensitivity (2)
antigen is integral part of effected cells/tissue
Type 3 hypersensitivity
immune-complex-mediated: complexes of antigen/antibody/often + complement
When do immune complexers form?
during recovery from an infection
If not efficiently removed from circulation, what happens to immune complexes?
become trapped in the kidney, blood vessels, skin
How does Type 3 lead to tissue injury?
phagocytes are recruited/activated to take care of them.
Your pateitn has tissume damage caused by an IgG autoantibody to desmosomes in the skin, what kind of response is this?
Type 2
Poststreptococcal nephritis
kidney damage caused by phagocytes reaction to immune complexes (strep antigens/anti-strep antibodies/complement)
Autoimmune disease: Systemic Lupus erythematosus (SLE)
damage to kidneys (other organs too) caused by phagocytes' reaction to immune complexes (DNA/anti-DNA antibodies/complement)
Primary antibody response
few naïve cells are present that can bind/be activated by the antigen (response generates memory cells)
Secondary Antibody response
from start, memory cells are present that can bind/be activated by the antigen. Response is bigger, quicker, usually not IgM, Higher average affinity for antigen
Why higher affinity for antigen?
____ affinity antibody is secreted early in an initial response
low
Where are Follicular dendritic cells found?
only in the germinal centers of lymphoid tissue
Where are FDCs born?
we don’t know
Do FDCs express PRRs?
No
Do FDCs internalize antigens or express MHC-2 or produce IL-12?
No
FDCs grab'hold immune complexes using ________
Fc and complement receptors (FcyR1, CR1, CR2)
Late in any response, FDCs are the last cells that________
still have antigen bound to them
B cells survival in germinal center and FDCs
B cells in germinal center must outcompete each other to bind antigen on FDCs in order to survive
To gain competitive advantage, germinal center B cells undergo ________
somatic hypermutation
Somatic hypermutation
AID (Activation Induced Deaminase) helps introduce point mutations in V regions of heavy/light chains of BCR
B cell affiliation with FDCs in somatic hypermutation
B cells with mutation that improve affinity for antigen grab antigens from FDCs, process/present MHC2:peptide complexes to TH cells in germinal center, and fifferentiate into either memory cells or plasma cells, that will secrete high affinity antibody
Memory cells, somatic hypermutation, and secondary responses
memory cells quickly reactivate and produce high affinity antibody (these reactivated cells undergo ANOTHER ROUND of somatic recombination so that antibody affinity in tertiary response is even higher)
Follicular B cells
responsible for T-dependent (high affinity, isotype switched) antibody responses, populate lymphoid follicles
Marginal Zone B cells
Responsible for T-independent antibody responses (low affinity IgM antibodies to blood-borne, non-protein antigens), populate marginal zones in WHITE PULP OF SPLEEN
Blood borne antigens are trapped by macrophages in the _______ of the spleen
white pulp
Splenic arterioles are surrounded by _______
PeriArterial Lymphoid Sheaths of T cells (PALS)
B cell follicles lie near _____
PALS
Marginal zone is "Structure" unique to ______
spleen
Marginal zone B cells produce ________
T-independent antibodies
T-independent antigens
non-protein antigens with repeating structures (multiple identical antigenic epitopes on each molecule)
examples of T-independent antigens
polysaccharides, lipids, DNA
T-independent ntigen binding BCRs on a splenic marginal zone B cell
When T-inde antigens bind/cross link with enough BCRs on a splenic marginal zone B cell, B cell is activated/matures into antibody-secreting plasma cell (WITHOUT T CELL HELP!!!!!!!!!)
T-dep vs T-inde: nature of antigen
protein v polysaccharide
T-dep vs T-inde: isotype of antibody
switched v only IgM
T-dep vs T-inde: affinity of antibody
High v Low
T-dep vs T-inde: lymphoid organs
Lymphoid Follicles v Splenic Marginal Zones
T-dep vs T-inde: memory
Yes v NO
Are T-inde antibody responses well developed in infants?
No
Are polysaccharide vaccines used in infants?
No!
How are polysaccharide antigens given to children?
conjugated to proetin
What does conjugation with a protein do?
TURNS T-INDEPENDENT antigen into T-DEPENDENT ANTIGEN
Hapten
small chemical capable of binding to antibody, but incapable of eliciting antibody response
What happens when hapten is attached to a larger molecule?
antibody response specific for hapten occurs
example of hapten?
poison ivy
Hapten is presented on MHC1 or MHC2 on B cells?
MHC 2
Immunization with polysaccharide conjugated to a carrier protein is used to stimulate a polysaccharide-specific __________ antibody response
T-dependent
In T-dependent antibody response, B cells present peptides from the carrier protein, but makes antibody specific to the ______
polysaccharides, lipids, DNA
Vaccines with attenuated viruses, viral vectors of DNA, can stimulate ______ responses
Both cell-mediated (including CTLs) and antibody responses
Vaccines with only proteins or polysaccharides stimulate mainly only_______ responses
antibody responses
Recombinant proteins are called ______ vaccines.
synthetic vaccines
Parts of microbes are called _______ vaccines
subunit vaccines
toxoid vaccines
subunit vaccines that are inactivated toxins (formalin treated)
Tetanus vaccine type
toxoid
DTaP is a ______ vaccine
subunit (two toxoids and a pertussis protein)
adjuvant
a substance distinct from the antigen that enhances T cell activation by promoting accumulation of antigen-presenting cells (APCs) at the antigen site, and expression of costimulatory molecules and cytokines by APCs
What is the classic human vaccine adjuvant?
Alum (aluminum salts)
Alum is an irritant, and as such causes ______
leukocyte recruitment
Adjuvant and killed or attenuated microbial vaccines
not necessary, microbe is recognized without it
monoclonal antibodies
From one original B cell
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B cell from immunized mouse (antigen X) is fused with malignant plasma cell to create “hybrid”oma cell
Hybridoma cells live indefinitely in culture producing exact same anti-X antibody as original B cell
This antibody is monoclonal. Heavy and light chains of each antibody molecule are completely identical
Monoclonal antibodies are used therapeutically/diagnostically
Polyclonal Antibodies
from several original B cells
Any antigen will have several epitopes (antigenic sites or determinants)
In “normal response” there will always be more than one naïve B cell that can bind the antigen
All normal immune responses are polyclonal!
Multiple myeloma:
malignant clone of plasma cells; produce monoclonal antibody; diagnostic!
What type of hypersensitivity is a TB skin test
Type 4
T cell Dependent B cell activation
CD40 ligand on T cell, CD40 receptor on B cell,
Why the better response to the old DTP vaccine?
Stimulated the innate immune system also
Recombinant proteins are
proteins that have been synthesized
Does vaccination produce the same response as natural infection?
NO
Are vaccines monoclonal or polyclonal?
Polyclonal
Your response to any antigen will be ________
polyclonal!!!