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Ch 15 Adaptive Immunity
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Microbiology
Undergraduate 2
02/22/2013

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What are the two types of adaptive immunity?
Definition
Humoral and cell-mediated
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Which type of immunity is known as blood immunity and is floating in the blood?
Definition
humoral
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What must happen in cell-mediated immunity?
Definition
antigen must be presented to the cell
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What does the lymphoid system include?
Definition
primary lymphoid organs, secondary lymphoid organs, lymphatic vessels
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Bone marrow and the thymus are ..?
Definition
Primary lymphoid organs
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Where is the site of B cell maturation?
Definition
Bone Marrow
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What happens in the thymus?
Definition
T cell maturation
Term
What happens once B and T cells mature
Definition
They leave the primary lymphoid organs and migrate to the secondary lymphoid organs
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What are the secondary lymphoid organs and what occurs there?
Definition
Lymph nodes, spleen, tonsils, appendix.
Site where lymphocytes gather to encounter antigens
Term
What carries lymph to body tissues?
Definition
Lymphatic vessels
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What is an antigen/immunogen?
Definition
Molecule that specifically interacts with an antibody or lymphocyte. (Ag) mostly protein
Term
What are the surface markers that are on an antigen that are recognized by the immune system called?
Definition
Antigenic determinant/epitope
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What is the basic unit of an antibody?
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Monomer, made of four chains of amino acids held together by disulfides bonds
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Each heavy and light chain has a constant region. What is it known as and what does it determine?
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Fc region, determines class
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Each heavy and light chain has a variable region, what is it?
Definition
Unique to each antibody, this region binds to a specific antigen and is known as the "Fab" region (F,antigen,binding)
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What antibody is the 1st to respond to an infection and is the only antibody that can be formed by the fetus?
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Ig M (10 days)
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What is the structure of the Ig M Ab?
Definition
Pentamer (five monomer units joined together at the Fc). But found on the surface of B lymphocytes as a monomer
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Which type of Ab is 5-13% of serum in circulation?
Definition
Ig M
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What is the Ab of memory and the only Ab that can cross the placenta?
Definition
Ig G (21 days)
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What is the structure of Ig G and what % is in circulation?
Definition
monomer, most dominant Ab- 80-85% in circulation
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Which Ab is found in secretions and what % is in circulation?
Definition
Ig A, 10-13%
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What structure is Ig A?
Definition
monomer in serum, dimer in secretions
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Which antibody is barely detectable in circulation and is a monomer? What is its role?
Definition
Ig E, active in allergic reactions
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Describe the Ig D antibody
Definition
less than 1% in circulation, monomer, maturation of antibody response
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Where can you find Ig E?
Definition
lung, brain/neural tissue, and skin
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What is clonal selection?
Definition
Specific response of mature B cells to an antigen's epitopes.
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What is clonal expansion?
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Repeated cycles of cell division generates population of copied antibodies
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List the stages of B cell development
Definition
Immature -> naive -> activated -> effector/plasma cells -> memory
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Describe neutralization? One of the protective outcomes of Ab-Ag binding.
Definition
It prevents toxins from interacting with the cell.
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How does immobilization and prevention of adherence protect Ab-Ag binding?
Definition
The antibody bonds to the cellular structures (such as flagella) to interfere with the antigens function
Term
What is the terms for the clumping of bacterial cells by a specific antibody that causes the bacteria to be more easily phagocytized?
Definition
agglutination and precipitation
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What is opsonization?
Definition
The coating of bacteria with antibody to enhance phagocytosis.
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What type of protective outcome involves an antibody bonding and triggering classical pathway?
Definition
Complement activation
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What is antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC)?
Definition
multiple antibodies bind a cell which becomes target for certain cells. (virus, cancer cells)
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How long does it take before antibodies detect an Ag in blood with primary response?
Definition
Lag period of 10-12 days
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In primary response, once an Ag is detected what happens?
Definition
Activated B cells proliferate and differentiate into increasing numbers of plasma cells as long as the antigen is present.
Term
What is the net result of primary response?
Definition
Slow steady increase in antibody titer
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What is secondary response?
Definition
Memory cells responsible for swift effective reaction that often eliminate invaders before noticeable harm is done
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Where do forms of natural selection occur during affinity maturation?
Definition
Among proliferating B cells
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What does affinity maturation do?
Definition
Fine tunes quality of response with respect to specificity, B cell receptors more and more specific to antigen, antibody binds antigen more tightly
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What are B cells initially programmed to do?
Definition
Differentiate into plasma cells, plasma cells secrete IgM antibodies
Term
Helper T cells produce cytokines which cause ...
Definition
Some B cells to switch programming and differentiate to plasma cells that secrete other classes of antibodies, commonly IgG
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T cells never produce antibodies. T or F
Definition
True
Term
Since T cells cannot produce antibodies what must happen for the T cell to take effect?
Definition
Antigen must be presented by an APC (macrophage) to the T cell receptor
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Name the T-lymphocytes.
Definition
T cell receptors, helper T cells (CD4), Cytotoxic T cell (CD8), Delayed hypersensitivity T cells, Suppressor T cells
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There are multiple copies of T cell receptors that are made up of...
Definition
two polypeptide chains:
alpha and beta
or gamma and delta
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What do all T cell receptors have?
Definition
A variable and constant region
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What is an MHC?
Definition
Major Histocompatibility complex: protein on the surface of body cells that can bind an Ag, holds the Ag for T cell analysis
Term
T cells never produce antibodies. T or F
Definition
True
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Where are class I MHC proteins found?
Definition
expressed on every nucleated cell in the body.
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What type of antigens do class I MHC proteins bind and what do they bind them to?
Definition
endogenous antigen, bind to Tc Cells
Term
What class of MHC proteins are expressed only on specific antigen-presenting cells
Definition
class II
Term
What type of antigens does Class II MHC have? what do they bind to?
Definition
exogenous antigen, Th cells
Term
Which type of T cell is CD4?
Definition
Helper T cells (Th)
Term
what are Th1 cells?
Definition
Activate cells related to cell-mediated immunity...call Tc to kill
Term
which type of T cell activates B cells to produce eosinophils, IgM and IgE
Definition
Th2
Term
Which type of T cells are CD8?
Definition
cytotoxic T cells (Tc)
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Which type of T cell destroys target cells with perforin, to induce apoptosis?
Definition
Cytotoxic T cells
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How are T cells activated?
Definition
Dendritic cells, activated macrophages, and natural killer cells
Term
Where do natural killer cells descend from?
Definition
Lymphoid stem cells
Term
What do natural killer cells lack and how do they recognize antigens?
Definition
lack antigen specificity, no antigen receptor, recognize antigens by means of Fc portion of IgG antibodies
Term
What do natural killer cells recognize that is important in viral infections?
Definition
Recognize destroyed host cells with no MHC class I surface molecules
Term
What type of immune response do NK cells augment and what does this enable?
Definition
Adaptive immune response, enables killing of host cells with foreign protein in the membrane
Term
NK cells actions augment adaptive immune response which is important in the process of ..
Definition
Antibody dependent cellular toxicity
Term
What does interleukin-1 do?
Definition
Stimulates Th cells
Term
which type of interleukin activates Th, B, Tc, and NK cells?
Definition
Interleukin-2
Term
What does interleukin-12 do?
Definition
differentiation of CD4 cells
Term
What do gamma-interferons do?
Definition
Increase activity of macrophages
Term
What causes leukocytes to move to an infection?
Definition
Chemokines (histamine, heparin)
Term
The body cannot make lymphocytes against itself due to...
Definition
Clonal deletion: process of destroying B and T cells that react to self antigens
Term
What happens when B and T cells undergo negative selection?
Definition
Apoptosis of B and T cells that recognize self
Term
Describe positive selection of T cells.
Definition
Differentiation of T cells will only occur if that cell recognizes MHC molecule
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