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IMMUNE RESPONSES
Agussalim Bukhari
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Contents
• Functional Responses of
T Lymphocytes
• Antigen and Costimulation
• Secretion of Cytokines and Expression of
Cytokines Receptors
• Clonal Expansion
• Differentiation of Naive T Cells into
Effectors Cells
• Development of Memory T Lymphocytes
• Decline of the Immune Respons
• Summary
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The Immune
Response Animation
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Introduction
• Cell-mediated immunity
• Adaptive immune response
• Combat infections by intracellular microbes
• Mediated by T lymphocytes
• Help B cells to produce antibodies
• Interactions between T lymphocytes and
phagocytes, infected host cells, or B
lymphocytes
• Can see and respond to only antigens
associated with other cells → major
histocompatibility complex (MCH)
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• T lymphocytes perform multiple functions
in defending against infections by various
kinds of microbes. A major role for T
lymphocytes is in cell-mediated immunity
(CMI), which provides defense against
infections by intracellular microbes. Two
types of infections may lead to microbes
finding a haven inside cells, from where
they must be eliminated by cell-mediated
immune responses
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• First, microbes are ingested by
phagocytes as part of the early defense
mechanisms of innate immunity, but some
of these microbes have evolved to resist
the microbicidal activities of phagocytes.
Many pathogenic intracellular bacteria and
protozoa are able to survive, and even
replicate, in the vesicles of phagocytes.
Some of these phagocytosed microbes
may enter the cytosol of infected cells and
multiply in this compartment, using the
nutrients of the infected cells
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• Cytosolic microbes are protected from the
microbicidal mechanisms of phagocytes,
because these mechanisms are confined
to vesicular compartments, where they
cannot damage the host cells. Second,
viruses may bind to receptors on a wide
variety of cells and are able to infect and
replicate in the cytoplasm of these cells.
These cells often do not possess intrinsic
mechanisms for destroying the viruses.
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Types of intracellular
microbes combated by
T cell-mediated
immunity
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• What signals are needed to activate
T lymphocytes?
• What cellular receptors are used to sense
and respond to the signals?
• How are the few naive T cells specific for
any microbe converted into the large
number of effector T cells endowed with the
ability to eliminate the microbes?
• What molecules are produced by
T lymphocytes that mediate their
communications with other cells, such as
macrophages and B lymphocytes?
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Phases of T Cell Responses
• The responses of T lymphocytes to cell-
associated microbial antigens consist of
a series of sequential steps that result in
an increase in the number of antigen-
specific T cells and the conversion of
naive T cells to effector cells
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Helper T
cell
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Antigen Recognition and
Costimulation
• The initiation of T cell responses
requires multiple receptors on the T cells
recognizing ligands on APCs
• The TCR recognizes MHC-associated
peptide antigens
• CD4 or CD8 co-receptors recognize the MHC
molecules
• Adhesion molecules strengthen the binding of T cells
to APCs
• Receptors for costimulators recognize second
signals provided by the APCs
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Ligand-receptor pairs involved in T cell activation 16
Recognition of major histocompatibility
complex-associated peptides
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Antigen recognition
and signal transduction
during T cell activation
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Role of adhesion molecules in
T cell responses
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Adhesion
molecules involved
in leukocyte
interactions
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Regulation of integrin avidity
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Role of costimulation in T cell
activation
• The full activation of T cells is
dependent on the recognition of
costimulators on APCs
• B7-1 (CD80), B7-2 (CD86) – CD28
• CD40 – CD40L (CD154)
• Example: adjuvant
• Proteins homologous to CD28 also are
critical for limiting and terminating
immune response
• CTLA-4
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The role of
costimulations in T
cell activation
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Stimuli for the activation of CD8+
T cells
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TCR-APC
Interaction Animation
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Activation of CD8+ T cells
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Biochemical Pathways of T Cell
Activation
• On recognition of antigens and
costimulators, T cells express proteins that
are involved in proliferation, differentiation,
and effector functions of the cells
• The biochemical pathways that link antigen
recognition with T cell responses consist of
the activation of enzymes, recruitment of
adapter proteins, and production of active
transcription factors
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Proteins produced
by antigen-
stimulated T cells
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Signal
transduction
pathways in
T lymphocytes
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Properties of the
major cytokines
produced by
CD4+ helper T
lymphocytes
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The role of
interleukin-2 (IL-2)
and IL-2 receptors
in T cell
proliferation
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Clonal expansion
• Within 1 or 2 days after activation, T
lymphocytes begin to proliferate,
resulting in expansion of antigen-specific
clones
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Differentiation of naive T cells into
effector cells
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The molecules involved in the effector functions of
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CD4+ helper T cells
Differentiation of naive T cells into
effector cells
• CD4+ helper T cells may differentiate
into subsets of effector cells that
produce distinct sets of cytokines and
perform different functions
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The development
and characteristics
of subsets of
CD4+ helper T
lymphocytes
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Differentiation of naive T cells into
effector cells
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The functions of TH1 cells
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Differentiation of naive T cells into
effector cells
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The functions of TH2 cells
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The three main
types of armed
effector T cells
produce distinct
sets of effector
molecules
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Development of memory
T lymphocytes
• A fraction of antigen-activated T
lymphocytes differentiates into long-lived
memory cells
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Encounter with
antigen
generates T cells
and long lived
memory T cells
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Decline of the immune response
• Once an infection is cleared and the stimuli for
lymphocyte activation disappear, many of the
cells that had proliferated in response to
antigen are deprived of the survival signals
antigen, costimulatory signals from CD28, and
cytokines such as IL-2
• As a result, these cells die by a process of
apoptosis (programmed cell death)
• The response subsides within 1 or 2 weeks
after the infection is eradicated, and the only
sign that a T cell-mediated immune response
had occurred is the pool of surviving memory
lymphocytes.
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Summary
• T lymphocytes are the cells of cell-
mediated immunity, the arm of the
adaptive immune system that combats
intracellular microbes
• The responses of T lymphocytes consist of
sequential phases
• T cells use their antigen receptors to
recognize peptide antigens displayed by
MHC molecules on antigen-presenting
cells
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Summary
• T lymphocytes are the cells of cell-
mediated immunity, the arm of the
adaptive immune system that combats
intracellular microbes
• Antigen recognition by the TCR triggers
signals that are delivered to the interior of
the cells by molecules associated with the
TCR (the CD3 and ζ chains) and by the
co-receptors, CD4 and CD8, which
recognize class II and class I MHC
molecules, respectively
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Summary
• The binding of T cells to APCs is
enhanced by adhesion molecules
• APCs exposed to microbes or to cytokines
produced as part of the innate immune
reactions to microbes express
costimulators that are recognized by
receptors on T cells and deliver necessary
"second signals" for T cell activation
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Summary
• The biochemical signals triggered in T
cells by antigen recognition and
costimulation result in the activation of
various transcription factors that stimulate
the expression of genes encoding
cytokines, cytokine receptors, and other
molecules involved in T cell responses
• In response to antigen recognition and
costimulation, T cells secrete cytokines, of
which some induce proliferation of the
antigen-stimulated T cells and others
mediate the effector functions of T cells
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Summary
• CD4+ helper T cells may differentiate into
subsets of effector cells that produce
restricted sets of cytokines and perform
different functions
• CD8+ T cells recognize peptides of
intracellular (cytoplasmic) protein antigens
and may require help from CD4+ T cells to
differentiate into effector CTLs
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References
• Abbas, A.K., Licthman, A.H.: Basic
Immunology, 3th edn. Philadelphia,
Saunders Elsevier, 2009
• Janeway, C.A., Travers, P., Walport, M.,
Shlomchick, M.J.: Immunobiology, 6th
edn. New York, Garland Science, 2005
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NOTICE:
• ζ chain → ζ chain
• IFN-γ → IFNγ
• Cγ (PLCγ) → Cγ (PLCγ)
• Ras•GTP and Rac•GTP →
Ras·GTP and Rac·GTP
• NF-κB → NF-κβ
• IκB → Iκβ
• PKCÎ → PKCθ
• TGF-β → TGFβ
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