Chapter 3
Cellular Mechanisms of
Innate Immunity
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Comparison of the receptor characteristics of
 the innate and adaptive immune systems
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Phagocytic or dinner receptors
              dectin-1 recognizes β-glucans and carbohydrates
              Scavenger receptors participate in the removal of foreign
              substances and waste materials
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      Activation of G-coupled receptors
C5A
         Binds peptide motifs such as N-formylmethionine-Leu-Phe
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In 1880érne Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov identified
      microbe eating cells in star fish
         Nobel Prize in 1908                   6
                                                      Oxidative burst
  C5a
Chronic Granulomatous Diseases (CGD) extreme susceptibility
The first disease which to be identified via positional cloning (x-linked 1986)
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                       NETs
Trap microbes but also prevent spreading of damaging proteases etc.
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Milk RNAse
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   Infection stimulates cytokine and chemokine production
C3a, C5a and fMLP
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         ”Pathogen“ detection receptors
SIGNAL
                 RESPONSE
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  MICROBIAL ASSOCIATED MOLECULAR PATTERNS
                              “MAMPS”
Something the bugs just cant live without!
Conserved structures among microbes
Include oligosaccharides, lipids, polypeptides, glycoproteins, etc
                                 flagel
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Mammalian TLRs
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Direct recognition
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Indirect recognition
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011
 Bruce A. Beutler   Jules A. Hoffmann   Ralph M. Steinman
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Hypothesis for the discovery of Toll
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    Toll receptors needed for resistance
immunity                         disease
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  A mouse mutant that are unaffected by LPS
but very susceptible to certain bacterial infections
                                    C57BL/10ScCr mouse
    C3H/HeJ mouse (mutant)
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The amazing figures
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Receptors of conserved microbial signatures
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TLR signaling activate the expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines
MyD88/MAL/TRIF/TRAM
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TLR in antiviral defence
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RIG-I and MDA-5 are cytoplasmic sensors of viral RNA
  MDA-5 sense dsRNA
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cGAS is a cytosolic sensor of DNA that signals through STING
         l
            to activate type I interferon production
    cyclic guanosine monophosphate–adenosine monophosphate (cyclic GMP–AMP)
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Surveillance receptors
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        Human NOD-like receptors - NLRs
NOD1/2 – peptidoglycans
NLRP3 – cellular damage (loss of intracellular potassium)
NAIP/NLRC4 - flagellin                                  29
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Kobayashi et al (2005) Science 307, 731-4 - (red hot paper 2005)
PAMPs stimulate Langerhans cells to migrate
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Outcome of P/MAMP receptor stimulation: Cytokines
                                     stimulation
                                       inhibition
                                  differentiation
                                       cell death
                                   chemoattract
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           Key Cytokines Produced by Innate Immune
                          Responses
1) IL-1 - macrophages, epithelial cells
2) IL-6 - macrophages, endothelial cells (also T cells)
3) IL-12 - macrophages, dendritic cells
1) TNF-a - macrophages, NK cells (also T cells)
2) IFN-a - dendritic cells, virally infected cells
3) IFN-b - virally infected cells
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Production of monocytes granulocytes
(Granulocyte-macrophage
colony-stimulating factor)
Adaptive immunity
Production of IL-6/8 and other chemokines
Activation of viral defence
Activation of CasP 8 or NFkB
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JAK-STAT pathway
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TNF and receptors
                    Juxtacrine signalling
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A few of some 50 chemokines
                                                         Recept
      Class       Chemokine           Produced by                   Cells attracted         Major effects
                                                          ors
                                      Monocytes,                                             Mobilizes,
                                     Macrophages,        CXC                                activates, and
                C X C L 8 (I L -                                   Neutrophils, Naive
                                      Fibroblasts,       R 1, C                             degranulates
                      8)                                                T cells
                                    Epithelial cells,    XCR2                                neutrophils
                                    Endothelial cells                                       Angiogenesis
                                                                                               Activates
                   CXCL7
      CXC                                                CXC                               neutrophils, Clot
               (P B P, beta -T G,       Platelets                     Neutrophils
                                                          R2                                  resorption,
                   N A P - 2)
                                                                                            Angiogenesis
               C X C L 1 (G R O
                                                                                              Activates
               alpha), C X C L 2      Monocytes,
                                                         CXC       Neutrophils, Naive        neutrophils
               (G R O beta), C X      Fibroblasts,
                                                          R2       T cells, Fibroblasts      Fibroplasia
                 C L 3 (G R O         Endothelium
                                                                                            Angiogenesis
                    gamma)
                                                                    Monocytes, N K        Competes with H I
                                     Monocytes, T
               C C L 3 (M I P - 1                        CCR         and T cells,           V - 1 Antiviral
                                    cells, Mast cells,
                    alpha)                               1, 3, 5      Basophils,          defense promotes T
                                       Fibroblasts
                                                                    Dendritic cells          H 1 immunity
                                      Monocytes,
                                                                    Monocytes, N K
                   CCL4              Macrophages,        CCR                              Competes with H I
                                                                     and T cells,
                (M I P - 1 beta)     Neutrophils,        1, 3, 5                               V-1
                                                                    Dendritic cells
                                     Endothelium
                                                                                              Activates
       CC
                                      Monocytes,                    Monocytes, N K          macrophages
                   CCL2              Macrophages,        CCR2        and T cells,         Basophil histamine
                  (M C P - 1)         Fibroblasts,        B           Basophils,               release
                                     Keratinocytes                  Dendritic cells        Promotes T H 2
                                                                                              immunity
                                                                    Monocytes, N K          Degranulates
                                        T cells,                     and T cells,             basophils
                    CCL5                                 CCR
                                      Endothelium,                    Basophils,           Activates T cells
                  (RANTES)                               1, 3, 5
                                        Platelets                    Eosinophils,              Chronic
                                                                    Dendritic cells         inflammation
                                                                                              Leukocyte –
      CXX                             Monocytes,
                 CX3CL1                                  CX3C                                 endothelial
      X C (C                        Endothelium,Micr               Monocytes, T cells
                 (Fractalkine)                            R1                                adhesion Brain
      X 3 C)                           oglial cells
                                                                                             inflammation
Adhesion molecules involved in leukocyte interactions
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Inflammation or injury induces changes in endothelial cells
  Weibel-Palade
  bodies with
  pre-formed adhesion
  Molecules (P-selectin)
  TNF & IL-1 released
  due to inflammation                 Adhesion molecule expression
  in tissue                           (P-selectin interacts with sialyl lewis
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 Leukocyte recruitment to sites of inflammation
                    CXCL8
                                                                   histamine/C5a
(slow blood flow)   (chemokine CXCL8 binds IL-8R promote LFA-1 change – also stored in wiebel palade bodies )
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The release of TNF-a by macrophages
induces local protective effects, but TNF-a
can have damaging effects when released
systemically (septic shock).
Vasodilation > low blood pressure
Loos of plasma volume
Blood clotting in small vessels >
Obstruction of blood flow
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Beyond local activity
        Endogenous pyrogens   48
CRP – binds phophocoline
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 Fever
          Oligoadenylate synthetase
P-eIF2a
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IFIT proteins – antiviral effector molecules
         P-eIF2a - PKR
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Group 1 ILCs (Th)
Group 2 ILCs (Th2 cells)
Group 3 ILCs (Th17 cells)
NK cells (Cytotoxic T cells)
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Stimuli that can up-regulate NKG2D and DNAM-1 ligands
MHC
KIR
        ITIM       ITAM
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B1 cells and natural antibodies
      LPS
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