MICROBIOLOGY Chp 16
a cytotoxic T cell.
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an antibody-producing cell.
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steps of phagocytosis in the correct order
1)chemotaxis of phagocyte to microbe occurs 2)phagocyte adheres/attaches to microbe 3)pseudopods of phagocyte engulf and internalize the micrboe, forming phagosome 4)lysosome fuses with the phagosome forming phagolysosome 5)digestion of microbe occurs within phagolysosome 6)indigestible material is discharged
Place the following steps of phagocytosis in the order that they occur: 1. Endosome fuses with lysozome 2. Dendritic cell engulfs Rhinovirus 3. Epitopes are attached to MHC-II 4. Digestion of the Rhinovirus 5. MHC-II plus the attached epitope move to the outside of the dendritic cell
2,1,4,3,5
Correctly order the steps involved cellular immunity: 1. The Tc recognizes the infected host cell 2. The Tc interacts with epitope presented by MHC-I on the dendritic cell 3. The Tc secretes perforin and granzyme, causing apoptosis 4. The helper T cell activates the Tc cell
2,4,1,3
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A protein that covers the surface of an invading microbe, making it easier for the phagocyte to ingest.
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A vesicle containing only an engulfed invading microorganism.
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A vesicle containing only digestive enzymes and other antimicrobial compounds.
Adaptive defenses include both humoral and cellular immunity.
Adaptive defenses are operating optimally when both humoral and cellular immunity are working together in response to a pathogen.
Which of the complement pathways employs properdin?
Alternative pathway
What is meant by the clonal expansion of a B cell?
An activated B cell divides into cells that give rise to memory B cells and plasma cells. The activated B cell divides until there are many clones. Some differentiate into memory cells, other become plasma cells that produce and secrete antibodies.
A response that is uniquely directed against pathogenic Bordetella pertussis would involve what component?
Antibodies
Based on the animation, which of the following is cleaved by C1?
C2 and C4
Based on the animation, which of the following is responsible for cleaving C3?
C2aC4b
In the classical pathway, which of the following directly activates cellular responses?
C3a, C5a, and C5bC6C7
Based on the animation, which of the complement proteins can directly bind to the surface of a bacterial cell?
C3b
Which complement protein is used as an opsonin?
C3b
Which of the following can release histamines?
Cells from damaged tissues and the complement pathway
What complement result involves the use of phagocytes?
Chemotaxis and opsonization
Defective oxidative burst
Chronic granulomatous disease is an inherited disorder in which the oxidative burst process is defective and phagocytic cells are unable to effectively kill the microbes they phagocytize. As might be expected, this disease is characterized by repeated serious infections
A person who has AIDS contracts rare and often life-threatening infections because their helper T cell count is so low. Which of the following components of the immune response still respond to antigen despite the low helper T cell count?
Clonal selection of B cells. B cells can still bind to antigen, which is the process of clonal selection. However, without a helper T cell, clonal expansion and antibody production will not occur.
facilitate the binding of phagocytes to the microbe via C3b receptors on the phagocyte surface
Complement peptides, particularly C3b
Which microorganism requires the low pH inside a phagolysosome in order to reproduce?
Coxiella burnetii
If a person lacked the ability to form C5, what result of complement could not occur? What could still occur?
Cytolysis Opsonization
If a person could not form C2, which result of complement would be affected?
Cytolysis, chemotaxis, inflammation, and opsonization
Which cells directly attack abnormal cells in the body?
Cytotoxic T cells
What might interfere specifically with chemotaxis of a phagocyte?
Defective microfilament function Absence of cytokine and complement receptors on phagocyte surfaces
This activity asks you to think specifically about the process through which phagocytes kill and digest microbes and to identify steps of the process that might be compromised and interfere with this killing activity.
Defective oxidative burst Myeloperoxidase deficiency Defective microtubule function-
Which of the following phagocytic processes occurs last in the sequence?
Exocytosis
Defective microtubule function
First, the phagosome must fuse with the lysosome. This process is enabled by microtubules, which facilitate the movement of organelles within cells. Defective microtubule function would likely prevent the formation of phagolysosomes
How does cytolysis occur via the complement pathway?
Formation of the MAC in invading cells, killing them
What does the plasma membrane of a phagocyte attach to on a microorganism?
Glycoproteins
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Haemophilus influenzae
What is the role of helper T cells in the adaptive immune response?
Helper T cells activate B cells and cytotoxic T lymphocytes to kill infected host cells. Helper T cells activate B cells that are displaying antigen, causing clonal expansion. Helper T cells also activate cytotoxic T cells, which will search for and destroy infected host cells.
Why is vasodilation important to tissue repair?
It allows for an increased delivery of oxygen, nutrients, and phagocytes to the site of damage.
Select the cell types that are actively phagocytic.
Macrophage,Neutrophil, Dendritic cell, Eosinophil
The student who caught the cold caused by this specific Rhinovirus was exposed to the exact same Rhinovirus 18 months later. What component of the immune system will protect her from getting the same cold again?
Memory B cells. Memory cells to that specific virus are stored in the lymph nodes for many years. When the student comes into contact with this specific Rhinovirus, these memory cells quickly divide and differentiate into antibody-producing plasma cells. The antibodies will prevent the virus from reaching an infectious titer (number that causes infection).
select strategies from the list provided that might enable a microbe to avoid or escape phagocytosis or phagocytic killing.
Microbe prevents fusion of phagosome with lysosome to form phagolysosome. Microbe produces leukocidin. Microbe escapes from phagosome prior to fusion with lysosome. A capsule surrounds the microbe.
Myeloperoxidase deficiency
Phagocytic cells may show an oxidative burst but be unable to produce hypochlorous acid; as a result, the phagocytes' ability to kill the microbes is compromised.
According to the animation, antibodies interact with which innate defenses?
Phagocytosis and the complement system
What cellular macromolecules make up the complement pathway?
Proteins
How is phagocytosis in the immune system different from protozoan phagocytosis?
Protozoan phagocytosis is used for feeding; phagocytosis by immune cells is used to fight infection.
Which of the following is not a step used by cytotoxic T cells to kill infected host cells?
Recognition of infected host cell using its CD4 glycoprotein
Which of the following is a step used by cytotoxic T cells to kill infected host cells?
Secretion of granzyme Secretion of perforin Recognition of infected host cell using its TCR
Some bacteria secrete enzymes that cause host proteins to be deposited on their surface, making them appear as "self" to the host.
Staphylococcus aureus
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Streptococcus pneumoniae
Which of the following microorganisms use M protein to avoid destruction of a phagocyte?
Streptococcus pyogenes
Which of the following defense systems would be involved in fighting a viral pathogen?
T lymphocytes
Activation of cytotoxic T cells by helper T cells
The activation of cytotoxic T cells leads down the path of cell-mediated immunity
Where are the complement proteins found in the body?
The blood serum
Which of the complement pathways was discovered first?
The classical pathway
Classical pathway
The first to be discovered, is initiated when antibodies bind to antigens (microbes) and occurs as follows 1. antibodies attach to antigens, forming antigen-antibody complexes. The antigen-antibody complexes bind and activate C1 2. next, activated C1 activates C2 and C4 by splitting them, C2 is split into fragments called C2a and C2b, and C4 is split into fragments called C4a and C4b 3. C2a and C4b combine and together they activate C3 by splitting it into C3a and C3b. The C3 fragments then initiate cytolysis, inflammation and opsonization
What is a phagolysosome?
The structure that results from the fusion of a phagosome and a lysosome.
How is Streptococcus pneumoniae able to avoid destruction by a phagocyte?
Their capsules make them "slippery" to phagocytes.
Which of the following are functions of lectins?
They act as opsonins for phagocytosis, they attach to carbohydrates on some bacterial and viral surfaces, and they activate C2 and C4.
What direct effect do histamines and leukotrienes have on capillaries?
They allow capillary walls to open and become leaky.
First line defenses have what aspect in common with each other?
They are physical barriers against invading pathogens.
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They cause the lysosomes to empty their contents into the phagocyte, killing it.
What is the role of opsonins?
They create "handles" that make it easier for the pseudopods of phagocytes to attach to the microbe invader.
...e
They prevent the fusion of the lysosome and phagosome.
If a new bacterial pathogen entered a human body through an accidental needle stick, the first cell that would try to kill the pathogen would likely be
a phagocyte.
The movement of phagocytes is described as
ameboid motion because it resembles the movement of amebae (which are protozoans). This movement involves elements of the cytoskeleton of the phagocyte, specifically the microfilaments
M protein is a virulence factor of Streptococcus pyogenes that can specifically interfere with phagocytosis by
blocking adherence of the phagocyte to the streptococcal cells
The process by which a phagocyte moves toward a chemical signal at the site of an infection is called
chemotaxis.
Pus is comprised of
dead phagocytes.
In macrophages and dendritic cells (so-called antigen-presenting cells) some small parts of the phagocytosed particle are presented to other cells of the immune system. If you were to draw an arrow leading to "antigen presentation" as described above, from which word would it extend?
digestion
Opsonization
enhancement of phagocytosis by coating with C3b
According to the animation, B cells interact directly with
helper T cells.
Capsules serve as
important microbial virulence factors interfere with phagocytosis by blocking attachment of phagocyte Toll-like receptors to microbial PAMPs
inflammation
increase of blood vessel permeability and chemotactic attraction of phagocytes
Mucous membranes are a part of
innate defense.
The first line of defense
intact skin, mucous membranes and their secretions, and the normal microbiota.
Polymerization of actin can
lengthen the microfilament
In which intracellular compartment would you expect most of the digestive enzymes involved in pathogen destruction to be found?
lysosome
Phagocytosis is the process through which
one cell engulfs extracellular material, such as an invading microorganism
Cells that specialize in phagocytosis are referred to as
phagocytes
second line of defense
phagocytosis, inflammation, fever, and a variety of antimicrobial substances
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an intracellular pathogen of humans. After being ingested by a macrophage, it prevents formation of the ___________ by preventing fusion of the phagosome with the ___________________.
phagolysosome, lysosome
Microfilaments are composed of
protein actin
The lengthening or shortening of the microfilaments is what enables
pseudopods to extend and retract.
Chemotaxis
refers to the movement of a cell in response to a chemical stimulus
Antibodies from cellular immune responses are used in
the classical pathway.
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the feeding of protozoans.
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the ingestion of solid material by a eukaryotic cell.
Phagocytosis is defined as
the ingestion of solid material by a eukaryotic cell.
Diapedesis is
the migration of phagocytes through blood vessels to the site of tissue damage.
Both the innate and adaptive defenses of the immune system work to prevent
the penetration and colonization by pathogens, and the diseases they cause.
Phagocytosis is a multistep process that begins
the phagocyte moves toward the microbe, establishes contact with the microbe then engulfs, digests, and discharges residual wastes.
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the uptake of liquid material by a eukaryotic cell.
Lectin pathway
when microphages ingest bacteria, viruses, and other foreign matter by phagocytosis, they release cytokines that stimulate the liver to produce lectins, proteins that bind to carbohydrates.