Defining Cytokines
Transcription Factors
The Immune Synapse
Being a T cell is tough
Potpourri
100

CD4+ Th2

IL-4, IL-5, IL-13

100

TH1

What is T-bet?

100

The co-receptor for MHC class I

What is CD8?

100

The process by which the CD8+ effector response starts but is shut down

What is exhaustion?

100

Injury/inflammation caused by a T-cell mediated reaction

What is delayed-type hypersensitivity?  

200

CD8+ CTL

What is IFN-gamma?

200

Th2

What is GATA3?
200

The co-receptor for MHC class II

What is CD4?

200

Name at least two functional defects in T-cell exhaustion

What are decreased proliferation, decreased production of INF-gamma, and poor cytotoxic activity?

200

The principal target cells of effector CD4+ Th1 cells

What are macrophages?

300

CD4+ Th17

What is IL-17 and IL-22?

300

Th17

What is ROR-gt?

300

The ligand for LFA-1 (which is on the CTL surface) on the target cell surface.

What is ICAM-1?

300

Name the two CTL populations found after clearance of an acute viral infection.  

What are effector and memory CD8+ T lymphocytes?

300

This ligand-receptor interaction results in activation of caspases and apoptosis

What is FasL-Fas receptor?

400

CD4+ Tfh

What is IL-21

400

Treg

What is FOXP3?

400

Shared by NK cells, CTLs express these receptors that send inhibitory signals to prevent killing of normal cells

What are killer immunoglobulin receptors (KIRs)?

400

Identify a persistent infection that may be related to T-cell exhaustion

What is HIV or HCV?
400

Membrane-poring protein homologous to C9 complement

What is perforin?

500

NKT cells

What is IL-4 and IFN-gamma?

500

Tfh

What is Bcl-6 and IRAF-4?

500

This CTL receptor recognizes class I-like MHC molecules MIC-A, MIC-B, and ULBP expressed on stressed cells

What is NKG2D?

500

Name at least one inhibitory receptor expressed on exhausted CTLs.

What are PD-1, CTLA-4, Tim-3, and/or Lag-3.
500
Genetic causes of familial HLH result in impaired CTL killing of target cells and may result from a mutation in (name one) gene.

PRF1, UNC13D, STX11, STXBP2