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Biol 430 Question Bank MHC and Antigen Presentation 1. Describe the structures of MHC-I and MHC-II proteins. A. Draw a schematic diagram of an MHC-I type protein and label its peptide subunits. -------------------------------- membrane B. The diagram to the right shows a cross-section of the MHC-I binding cleft. Add to the diagram a 15 amino acid peptide of around showing how it would be positioned. Label the position of the anchor amino acids. C. Draw a simplified diagram of an MHC-II type protein and label its peptide subunits. -------------------------------- membrane D. The diagram to the right shows a cross-section of the MHC-I binding cleft. Add to the diagram a 15 amino acid peptide of around showing how it would be positioned. Label the position of the anchor amino acids. 2. Complete this table to show the arrangement of MHC-I, MHC-II and MHC-III regions and genes on the chromosome. MHC class: Locus: N/A A. Although there are the same number of MHC-I and MHC-II loci, a greater number of MHC-II peptides can be created. Why? B. MHC-II loci include pseudogenes; what are these and do they contribute to the range of peptides presented by MHC proteins? Biol 430 Question Bank MHC & AG-Presentation Page 1 3. Identify the meaning of each of the following designations: A. DRα and DRβ : B. DRA and DRB : C. DRB1, DRB2, DRB3, etc : D. DRB1*01, DRB1*02, DRB1*03, etc : E. DRB1*0101, DRB1*0102, DRB1*0103, etc : F. DR1, DR2, DR3, etc 4. Match each of the following terms with its best explanation. Term 1. ___ Codominance a. MHC proteins contain more than one peptide subunit. 2. ___ Polygenicity b. A MHC protein can bind to a many different peptides. 3. ___ Promiscuous binding c. There are several genes for MHC-I and MHC-II proteins 4. ___ Quartenary structure d. Within the population there are many alleles for the MHC genes. 5. ___ Polymorphism e. HLA genes on both homologous chromosomes are expressed. 5. Answer the following questions about haplotypes referring to this table. A B C DR A1 B7 Cw3 DR2 A2 B8 Cw2 DR3 A3 B44 Cw4 DR4 A11 B35 Cw1 DR7 A3 B44 Cw4 DR7 DQ DQ1 DQ2 DQ2 DQ3 DQ3 DP DP1 DP2 DP3 DP4 DP5 F G H E R A. A, B, C, DR, DQ, and DP represent different ___________________. B. A1, B8, Cw3, DR2, etc., represent different ___________________ C. F, G, H, E, and R designate different _____________________. D. If a HLAG/H man marries a HLAH/E woman, what are the potential haplotypes among their children. (Hint: predicting haplotypes among offpring can be treated like a monohybrid cross.) E. In theory, would a person who is HLAF/F or a person who is HLAF/G be better able to raise an immune response against the greatest number of pathogens? Explain. Biol 430 Question Bank MHC & AG-Presentation Page 2 6. Consider a hypothetical allelic combination HLA-B4 and HLA-C6 that presents a relative risk of 150 for a particular autoimmune disease. A. Will all people that have the disease carry these two alleles? B. Will everyone with these two alleles get the disease? C. What other factors might influence incidence of the disease? 7. You cross a homogenous C57Bl/6 (H-2b) mouse and homogenous CBA (H-2k) mouse, and examine the H-2 protein expression among the offspring. This diagram shows the arrangement of MHC genes in the mouse MHC complex. MHC class: Locus: I K II A III E I D L A. What H-2 haplotype(s) will be carried by the F1 offspring? Will the offspring be syngeneic? B. Which types of MHC will be expressed on the liver cells of the offspring? Which will be expressed on dendritic cells? 8. In an investigation of induction of B-cell tolerance to self-antigens, Nemazee and Burki created two transgenic mice strains. One received the gene for an antibody against the Kb protein, the other received this gene as well as the Kb gene. In the single transgenic mice, B-cells expressing the antiKb antibody were found in the bone marrow and lymph nodes, but these B-cells were found only in the bone marrow of double transgenic mice. A. What does the expression ‘Kb’ mean? B. Was the haplotype of the mice receiving the genes H-2b or a different haplotype? Explain. C. If the mice did have a haplotype of H-2b, how would the results have been different? Biol 430 Question Bank MHC & AG-Presentation Page 3 8. As a student in an immunology laboratory class, you have been given spleen cells from a mouse immunized with the LCM virus. You determine the antigen-specific functional activity of these cells with two different assays: in assay 1, the spleen cells are incubated with macrophages that have been briefly exposed to the LCM virus; the production of interleukin 2 (IL-2) is a positive response; in assay 2, the spleen cells are incubated with LCM -infected target cells; lysis of the target cells represents a positive response in this assay. The results of the assays using macrophages and target cells of different haplotypes are presented in the table below. MHC Haplotype of macrophages and virus-infected target cells Mouse strain used as source of macrophages & target cells C3H MHC-I K k MHC-II A E k k BALB/c BALB/c x B10.A A.Tl B10.A (3R) B10.B (3R) d d/k s b k d d/k k b k MHC-I D k d d/k k b -- Response of spleen cells IL-2 production by Lysis of LCMT-cells (assay 1) infected cells (assay 2) + - d d/d d d b + + + + + + + - A. The activity of which T-cell population is detected by each assay? B. The functional activity of which MHC molecule is detected in each assay? C. MHC molecules of which haplotypes are required for the response to LCM in each of the two assays? 9. For each of the following cell types, indicate if it will express MHC I, II, both (B), or neither (N). ___ B-cells ___ Dendritic cell ___ Liver cell ___ Red blood cell ___ T-cell ___ Macrophage ___ Skin cell 10. In order to function as effective APCs, DCs muct undergo a series of activation steps. What change to a DC occurs during each one of these steps: A. What are several ways in which DCs receive a danger signal and capture an antigen? What are some of the changes that occur to a DC cell upon sensing a danger signal? B. What changes occur to a DC cell after engaging a T-cell? Biol 430 Question Bank MHC & AG-Presentation Page 4 11. Figure (a) shows the mouse parental MHC haplotypes and that of their offspring. The lower diagram shows an experimental design where skin is grafted from the donor mice (center column) to either inbred mice (left-hand column) or to heterzygous mice (right-hand column). Same-colored mice are syngeneic. A. What do the designations b/b or k/k or b/k signify about each mouse? B. In which of the recipients will the skin graft be perceived as ‘self’? C. Which of the mice will reject the skin grafts? Explain why. 12. Referring to the Figure A: A. Identify the structures labeled A - D and the cellular compartments labeled as D and F. A B. What type of MHC is being loaded with peptide? C. In which cell types does this process occur? D. Explain the process that is occurring in the compartment labeled as C Biol 430 Question Bank MHC & AG-Presentation Page 5 13. Referring to the figure to Figure B: A. Identify the structures labeled A - D and the cellular compartments labeled as D and F. B B. What type of MHC is being loaded with peptide? C. In which cell types does this process occur? D. Explain the process that is occurring in the compartment labeled as F 16. Morrison and Braciale performed experiments that demonstrated the presence of two antigen processing pathways. They used two Tc cell clones that Activation of Tc cells DC that recognize antigens on: recognized influenza hemagglutin (HA, one of the treatment MHC-I MHC-II immunogenic surface proteins of the flu virus) presented either on MHC-I or MHC-II. DCs were Infectious virus + + incubated with either infectious or inactivated forms of the virus. The inactivated form retained its antigenic Inactivated virus + properties but was unable to infect host cells. Furthermore, the treatments included chloroquine (the Infectious virus + most common treatment for malaria) which blocks + emetine Infectious virus endocytosis, or emetine, which inhibits viral + + chloroquine replication. After each treatment, the DCs were tested for their ability to activate the Tc cells and the results are shown in the table. A. Why are both cell types activated by DCs treated with infectious virus. B. Which antigen processing pathway would you expect to not function in cells: a. exposed to inactivated virus? _________________________ b. treated with emetine? ________________________ c. treated with chloroquine? _______________________ C. Do the results concur with these predictions? Explain. D. Explain how these results demonstrate the operation of two separate pathways of antigen processing. E. Does cross-presentation appear to be occurring in these DC cells? Explain. Biol 430 Question Bank MHC & AG-Presentation Page 6 14. Ziegler and Unanue performed some of the key experiments that demonstrated antigen processing in DC cells. As part of the experiments, the DCs were treated with paraformaldehyde to cause ‘fixation’, such as in a histology procedure, which blocks all enzymatic activity and ‘locks’ the cells’ proteins in place. The ability of the DC’s to activate TH cells that recognize egg-white albumin (ovalbumin, ‘OVA’) was tested by measuring release of IL-2 after several alternative treatments: (a) DCs were fixed and then exposed to the OVA. (b) DCs were incubated with OVA for an hour and then fixed. (c) DCs were fixed and then incubated with OVA peptide fragments. In the diagram, OVA peptides in MHC are colored red, other peptides are colored blue. The results are shown in the right-hand column. (Figure is adapted from Goldsby, et al. 2003. Immunology. 5 th ed. Figure 8.3) A. Why are peptides present in the MHC proteins even before exposure to OVA? B. Does fixation appear to alter the ability of MHC proteins to interact with T-cell receptors? Explain. C. Why do the DCs fail to activate the TH cells in experiment (a)? D. What does experiment C show about the ability of mature MHC proteins to exchange peptides? Do you think this process is likely to occur in vivo? E. Explain how this experiment demonstrates the need for antigen processing. Biol 430 Question Bank MHC & AG-Presentation Page 7 Biol 430 Question Bank MHC & AG-Presentation Page 8