cellular component for innate immunity
1) phagocyte (neutrophil, macrophage)
2) NK cell
3) dendritic cell
4) Mast cell
humoral component for innate immunity
cytokines, complement proteins
cellular component for adaptive immunity
T cell, B cell
humoral component for adaptive immunity
cytokines, antibodies
general features of antibodies
number of CDR on 1 antibody
3 CDR on light chain, 3 CDR on heavy chain = 6 CDR per Fab arm = 12 CDR per antibody
properties of antibody
1) antigen affinity
2) antibody avidity
3) antibody specificity
T cell receptor
1) extracellular domain (glycosylated): variable region bind to antigen), constant region (cysteine residue, form disulfide bond to link both chians)
2) transmembrane region
3) short cytoplasmic tail
why T cell receptor not enough to activate T cell?
cytoplasmic tail too short to mediate signal transduction for T cell activation
CD3 adaptor proteins
ITAM
antibody vs T cell receptor (no. of CDR)
antibody: 12 CDR
T cell receptor: 6 CDR
process of B cell activation
1) progenitor B cell in bone marrow rearrange Ig genes -> clones of immature B cell expressing B cell antigen receptor
2) B cell leave bone marrow -> circulate blood stream/lymphoid tissue
3) encounter pathogenic antigen -> activate -> mature -> produce 1st response antibody IgM
4) gene arrangement of constant region in Fc domain of IgM -> class switching to IgG
5) B cell undergo gene arrangement to VL and VH of IgG gene -> different hypervariable CDR w different antigen specificity -> produce IgG with different CDR
development of T cells
1) T lymphocyte progenitor travel from bone marrow to thymus for development into T lymphocytes
2) T cells localised in secondary peripheral lymphoid tissue -> interact & respond to antigens
how does T cells have memory
1) effector T cell die after interacting with pathogen
2) Remaining antigen-specific T cells differentiate into memory T cells
MHC class I
examples of endogenous antigens
MHC class II
regulation of MHC molecules
characteristics of MHC
1) polygenic (multiple genes)
- express different peptide binding specificities
- means different set of MHC = present different antigen = broad coverage
2) polymorphic
- each gene different alleles = broad coverage
general properties of cytokines
cytokine classes - interferons - source
produced by cells in response to viral infections, tumours, other biological inducers
cytokine classes - interferons - function
1) promote antiviral state in neighbouring cells
2) help regulate immune response, growth & differentiation
cytokine classes - interferons - type I
1) IFN alpha
- recombinant IFN alpha protein for upregulation of immune system for antiviral and/or anticancer therapy
2) IFN beta
- expressed by most somatic cells
- effective treatment for multiple sclerosis (inhibit IFN gamma)