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Infections and Vaccines
Dima Bani-Eisa
Ziad Al-Nasser
Tuesday, 2/8/2011
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Immunology Lecture #22
Tuesday, 2nd of August, 2011
2nd of Ramadan, 1432
!..... ....
So keep your spirit high, have faith and say: Ya Rab!… And here we GO :D
Yesterday we were talking about infections and vaccines and I told you how efficient some of
the vaccines are like smallpox (which is eradicated completely), poliomyelitis, diphtheria and
pertussis.
We said that microorganisms when they enter our body usually they cause disease and some
of them are so evasive they manage to deceive our immune system to inflict injury and our
body fights back. And the idea of having vaccination is just to cut out the first stage which is
the primary immune response, so instead of exposing patients to the wild-strain that cause the
disease, we could give , or , and those
are going to stimulate the immune response, and when we give a booster dose we stimulate
the memory cells and those stay in our body for a longer period of time.
Sometimes we could give the products of the immune system where we call thator and this could be artificial where we make the
antibodies outside the body (monoclonal antibodies), get them from animals, get them from
vaccinated people or from people who were infected in the past. So if you got bite by a rabid
dog, you might be getting rabies, so immediately we give you passive vaccine. OR it could be
natural like the passage of immunoglobulins from the mother to the baby through the
placenta (IgG) or through the first *colostrum (IgA).
* Colostrum: is a form of milk produced by the mammary glands of mammals in late pregnancy.
Most species will generate colostrum just prior to giving birth. Colostrum contains antibodies toprotect the newborn against disease, as well as being lower in fat and higher in protein than
ordinary milk.
The passive from of vaccination has nothing to do with memory; they don't induce memory,
they just neutralize the viruses, the toxins or the bacteria, and the only thing that induces
memory is when we actively induce the immune system; either naturally when we get infected
OR artificially you challenge the immune system by antigens. So the idea if we are exposed to
any of the infectious agents then these infectious agents are going to be neutralized by these
antibodies we get from the passive vaccine and then the complement is going to be activated
and ADCC mechanism could be activated as well.
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Types of vaccines
Live Vaccines
They are the most effective because: they replicate and thus deliver sustained doses of
antigen. They replicate intracellularly so they deliver antigenic peptides to MHC class I and
thus stimulate cytotoxic T-cells. They replicate at the anatomical site of infection which
further focuses the immune response, like in polio in the GIT where we'll get IgA antibodies.
They cause which describes a form of immunity that occurs when
the vaccination of a significant portion of a population provides a measure of protection for
individuals who have not developed immunity, and where the vaccinated people could infect
other people with a good vaccine.
We could face two problems with the live-attenuated vaccine: the viruses may
spontaneously revert to the virulent wild-type organism that causes the disease. In patientswith immunodeficiency where they can cause infection despite attenuation. So in Medicine
we DO NOT give live-attenuated vaccines to immunodeficient people and we don't give them
to pregnant ladies as well.
We attenuate microorganisms usually by sub-culturing them till they lose their virulence or we
could use strains from animals that they share lots of antigenic determinants with the wild-
strain, like in the live-attenuated vaccine of smallpox we use the vaccinia virus which causes
cow pox in animals. Also when we use bacilli Calmette-Guerin ( vaccine, we don't use
mycobacterium tuberculosis, we use stains of mycobacterium bovis.
Killed Vaccines
Here we kill or inactivate the microorganisms either by heat or by chemicals. It is less effective
than the live vaccines, but it is safer, where we expose the patient to all parts of the
microorganism, and we call this "cellular". But we can use the "acellular" type where we don't
have to use all the cellular components; we could use the component that is responsible for
the disease, and this is the . So it has some side effects, the reason we switch to
the acellular type.
Subunit Vaccines
They are excellent and depend on the part that is causing the disease; they could be either the
attachment proteins that are what we really want an immune response against, so viruses and
bacteria could be neutralized. Or if the disease is caused by toxins, we get the toxin and
inactivate it into and then the immune response is going to neutralize the toxin.
They have noticed that all these vaccines go through the extracellular pathway of trafficking,
so in order to have the cytosolic response and presentation with MHC class I and then
activation of cytotoxic T-cells, we have to introduce those intracellularly.
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Here in subunit vaccines we can use the DNA vaccines introducing the DNA of the antigenic
determinant that we want intracellularly, so it can produce proteins and be trafficked by the
cytosolic pathway and then the antigen will be presented by MHC class I.
Failure of this type of vaccines could be due to or . The viral factors
like when the virus is changing its antigenicity or structure because of mutations, like what we
have with HIV, it has hundred of mutations, that is why vaccine industry fails to produce a
vaccine for it. And the solution for that is by using multiple peptide forms, like what we do for
influenza viruses, and it should be updated, so that all the changes of antigenic variants are
included in the vaccine. The host factors like for example some HLA allelic forms that don't
bind. [the doctor explained it as that but you can refer to box 24.4 page 195 in the book for further
explanation].
Here Dr. Ziad started reading the table above and added:
The most famous one in the live-attenuated vaccines is the oral polio (the three strains:
1, 2 and 3). And we have the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) the three in one shot.
When to use that, it depends on the prevalence of the disease. For example; in the first
world country they use those after the first year, at the 15 month of age nearly, they give
the MMR once, while in the third countries where it's more prevalent they use it little bit
earlier, maybe at 9 months of age. For influenza we have two types of vaccines; either live-attenuated or killed.
We use BCG in the third world countries.
The experimental canary pox as a vector for HIV, where here we use viruses as carrier
molecules then we can integrate some of the HIV antigens into the canary pox and inject
that into humans.
We inactivate the diphtheria toxin with formalin to become a toxoid.
We could be using the polysaccharides of encapsulated microbes, where the problem
here is that these polysaccharides are not that immunogenic, so we have to hook themwith a protein conjugate, and we call those , like streptococcus
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pneumonia and haemophilus influenza type B, so that they can induce thymus-
dependant antigens and activation of T-helper cells, while the polysaccharides alone
induce thymus- dependent antigens. Look at the figure below:
If you are exposed to the polysaccharide antigen it's going to act on the B cells without
memory; only IgM antibodies of low affinity will develop. But when you hook it into a
protein conjugate, the conjugated protein will be presented with antigen presenting cell
stimulating the T helper cells to produce cytokines and activate the B cells to switch into
higher affinity IgG and to produce memory cells. So the conjugated vaccine are much
more efficient compared here to the non-conjugated or if we use the polysaccharides
alone.
We can use recombinant peptides, like in hepatitis B surface antigen, where we
genetically engineer the gene that codes for the hepatitis B surface antigen in yeast, so
the yeast can make the hepatitis B surface antigen.
Adjuvants
Toxoids in general need a substance to enhance their antigenicity, so we use Adjuvant.
Adjuvant is a substance that enhances the immune response.
How a substance can enhance the immune response? If you remember, we said we could mixit with oil, so its release to our body will be slow and the exposure to the lymphoid cell will
take a longer period of time. The second thing is by mixing it with a substance that stimulate
macrophages (the acute phase response, the alert signals).
is an adjuvant which can stimulate the macrophages to produce
cytokines that are needed for the stimulation, but it's not a powerful one, and two new
approaches are being used to create improved adjuvants: The unmethylated cytokine and
guanine sequence (CpG) motifs stimulates the Toll-like receptors.
Those are micelles of lipid and subunit antigen that are lipophilic andable to penetrate cell membranes.
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Other vaccines like dead and subunits don't have T-cytotoxic cell response; because they get
phagocytosed by APCs and they go through vesicular type (extracellular pathway), so how
they are going to stimulate T-cytotoxic cells and make the presentation by class 1 MHC
antigens? By:
1) Immunestimulatory complexes (ISCOMs): We put the virus or the antigen inside them
and expose them to the cytoplasmic membrane, and then they will fuse to the
membrane then go intracellularly, so they can be presented by class 1 MHC. And it's
used at the GIT or the respiratory tract.
2) we can use retroviruses or adenoviruses. Retroviruses are RNA viruses,
they have an enzyme called reverse transcriptase, they change from RNA to double
stranded-DNA then DNA gets integrated into the chromosome. So we can have one of
these viruses and put the gene that we want the cell to code for into these retroviruses,
for example, then it will infect the cell. So it's going to transfer the DNA inside the cell
and the cell will translate that particular gene to a protein product.
3) we could inject the DNA itself inside the cell so it will code for the
antigen we want and it will be presented through class 1 MHC.
So now why we are using the intracellular vaccines? What is the aim? Why we are using these
mechanisms? Simply to stimulate T-cytotoxic cells, presentation with class 1 MHC antigens.
Vaccine Schedules
Those are the programs that we have in the developed world and the developing world.
You know hepatitis B is sexually transmitted disease and it is very common in third world
countries and nowadays we start with hepatitis B vaccine for our children. Also we give
children triple vaccines, for example DPT vaccine: diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus.
The most common vaccines that we use in our part of the world are BCG, DPT, Haemophilus,
polio, and Measles.
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Bordetella pertussis causes the Whooping cough. The vaccine for whooping cough used to be
cellular. But in early 80s they noticed that few people that took that vaccine started to
develop chronic neurologic convulsions (epileptic fits), so they stop using that vaccine (the
cellular type). Then they noticed that prevalence of whooping cough cases started to increase
so they switch to the acellular type (the acellular part is the toxin of Bordetlla pertussis)vaccine instead, and then the number of cases dropped dramatically.
These are the mechanisms of burditella pertussis. The organism binds through the fimbria
and produces a toxin and the toxin damages the cell. So what we are going to do? we use the
vaccine and it'll produce antibodies and the antibodies are going to bind to the attachment
protein (the fimbria; the cellular part) preventing the bacteria from binding, so no damage is
going to take place OR some antibodies will arise against the toxin (the acellualr part) and
neutralize it. The bacteria have to bind first then it'll produce the toxin, so we can have
antibodies against the attachment proteins of the bacteria as well as against the toxin.
Vaccines against smallpox could be both live attenuated vaccines and killed vaccines. Figure
24.7: the yellow line represents levels of antibodies against small pox, and they are always
high, and the blue line represents protection against smallpox, which is so high. But if you look
at the red line which represents the levels of cytotoxic T-cells you'll find them low, and the
idea is that killed vaccines don't get stimulated through the cytosolic pathways. And now since
smallpox is eradicated, if you get exposed it is enough to take the inactivated vaccine which
will give the patient the appropriate levels of antibodies against the disease, and protection is
going to be high as well.
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Vaccination against smallpox is a debate that's going on among the world health
organizations whether to vaccinate or not to vaccinate following these biological terrors or
biological warfares that we have talked about, if you remember, last semester.
How organisms evade the immune response?
Microorganisms are so evasive; they have many ways to escape from our immune response and
these are some examples:
Small RNA viruses like the . HIV is the most error-prone RNA viruses, it has reverse
transcriptase and it has two copies. The reverse transcriptase keeps reading the two copies
back and forth, during that process it makes lots of mistakes, so every time you are going
to get a new strain. The most important part of the virus that changes a lot is the
attachment proteins, the GP120, and those when they change, every time you get
exposed to that virus you are going to have a primary immune response, which means no
memory cells, that’s why it is so difficult to make vaccines against the HIV.
And the same thing applies for the ; every five or six years the virus goes
through two mechanisms: one is known as the , and the other is the
.
Antigenic drift is a mutation of a single base pair that alters the hemagglutinin molecule,
so you will get a new strain, or a new variant.
Antigenic shift is when the gene of hemagglutinin has been completely changed. Why?Because the influenza viruses are segmented, they have seven to eight segments
depending on the subtype of the virus, and if two types of different antigenic structures
infect animals, you will get a mix of the segments and thus a new virus will emerge. So the
process of a primary immune response occurs and memory cells and so on.
Figure 24.9: If we are infected, for example, in 2001 with a strain, and the strain lasts
maybe for 1 year or two, so next time you are infected you are going to have antibodies
and those antibodies are going to neutralize the virus. Y3ni in the first year, we'll have
antibodies production, the next year you still have the same strain, so the virus will beneutralized and we won't have epidemic or pandemic. Then the four or five years after
that, the antigenic drift is going to take place and minor changes will take place on the
surface of the virus, but some antibodies still can neutralize the antigen while others can't,
so you can have here infection but not compared to those of the complete antigenic
shift.
In the antigenic shift the whole antigens of the surface are going to change, so no
antibodies are going to neutralize the virus, that's why we will have a pandemic all over
the world, like the H1N1 or the swine flu that we had, if you remember, 2 years ago.
This is because of the antigenic shift and the change which happens usually every 7 to 10years. So expect to have a pandemic on a continuous basis!
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And this is the price that we are paying for being mortal!! This is an interaction between us
and the environment, microorganisms and who competes to survive. And if you are weak
and can't develop any resistant mechanism, then you'll disappear, like the Dinosaurs that
couldn't really cope with the environment and so they have vanished and disappeared!! I
hope through this global warming that we are having right now that we will staycompeting for the next 50-100 years!! :-s
Larger viruses, like DNA viruses, have different mechanisms. We have talked about
; they suppress the production of MHC antigens, so they don’t represent
those to cytotoxic T-cells, thus the innate system is required to take control over these
viruses through the natural killer cells.
What is the difference between T cytotoxic cells and natural killer cells? One has memory
and the other does not have memory. Natural killer cells are the ones that lack the ability
to memorize former infections, so the immune response by the NKs is not efficient
compared to that by the T cytotoxic cells, but at least it has the ability to get rid of aninfection.
Bacteria of special structures, like mycobacterium tuberculosis. We said that
has waxes; like wax B and mycolic acid which resist the damage by phagocytic
cells, so they stay in our bodies for a longer period of time, and even the macrophages
cannot take those, so you need to activate the macrophages, thus activating the tumor
necrosis factor (TNF) and the interferon gamma in order to damage the cells infected with
the bacteria.
Bacteria that escape from the phagolysosome into the cytoplasm like
. Lesteria has the ability to penetrate the phagolysosome's membrane into
the cytoplasm, so they escape the respiratory burst and they can stay in our bodies for a
longer period of time.
Pathogens that have very thick capsules. We talked about encapsulated bacteria, which
interfere with phagocytosis, they cannot be phagocytosed, so they stay in our body for a
longer period of time, and the counter mechanisms of defense in our body are the
production of immunoglobulins against the capsule, as they help in phagocytosis and the
destruction of the pathogen. Encapsulated bacteria stimulate thymus- dependent
antigens, and in order to counter that, we use conjugated vaccines, to make memory cells
and for the antigens to become thymus-dependent.
Worms are so evasive in our body; they can cover their cells with self antigens so they
cannot be recognized as foreign antigens and thus staying in our body for a longer period
of time. are worms that can stay in our body for many years, but the problem
is not from the worm itself, it is from the eggs which produces and its body's secretions;
what comes out the eggs.
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Chapter 25
Hypersensitivity reactions
We said that we have successes in the immune system, like clearance of infection, making
vaccines, monoclonal antibodies… All of these are successes. And we have failure, and the
failure that we could have is the excessive production of immune products that are not
needed and these excessive products are not against the microorganism only, they could be
against environmental antigen where we should not respond against, so as a response our
tissue could be damaged.
are defined as reactions that occur because of hyper-stimulation of
our immune system; over-reactive immune system. Over-reactive means it has lots of
protection but on the other side we could have damage as well.
Around 10 -20% of all humans all over the world have one element of a hypersensitivity
reaction, and those are overprotected; they are less likely to be infected with microorganisms
and less likely to develop malignancy as well, so they live longer compared to ones that they
don't have hypersensitivity. But the other side of the story is that these hypersensitivity
reactions could kill as well! So it depends where the balance is going to be.
These excessive reactions that we have in our immune system could have so many factors that
involve; microorganisms could induce hypersensitivity reaction, like group A beta hemolytic
strep and these reactions against it damage our tissue, while it's supposed to react against the
microorganism itself, but it turns around and damages our cells. When we are infected with
influenza virus or common cold, we'll see lots of secretion; the mucus glands get infected,
running nose, this is a form of hypersensitivity reaction to these viruses. When we get infected
with mycobacterium tuberculosis, the damage that occurs to the lungs is a hypersensitivity
reaction. The damage that occurs to the liver when we get infected with hepatitis B virus,
when it turns into chronic, IFN gamma damages the cells (the hepatocytes) and not just that!
The virus is oncogenic; it can convert the cells into malignant and we could have
hepatocellular carcinoma.
Harmless environmental substances like pollens of flowers, and in our part of the world themost common harmless environmental substances that we are exposed to is the pollen of the
olives; many people are allergic to the pollens of the olive tree and the pollens antigens can
induce hypersensitivity reactions which could end up with rhinitis or what we used to call
, sneezing, coughing… At the time of the pollens production between the end of March,
April and early May, this is the time of the year where people are allergic. Some people are
allergic to dust, for example. Some mite excretions, fecal material of mites, and so on, which
people could be allergic too.
Some people could be allergic to self antigens; hypersensitivity reaction to a self antigen, this
is a form of autoimmune diseases.
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Using Coombs and Gell system and based on the types of immune response involved, we
classify the hypersensitivity reactions into 4 types:
we call it which involves an antigen that
stimulates IgE antibody production sensitizing mast cells then degranulation of those mast
cells and the secretion of vasoactive amines. It is the most rapid one; it acts within minutes.
when we have an antibody (IgM or IgG) reacts against an antigen on a surface of a
cell, so the antibody develops against that part of the cell, so complement will be activated
and the cell will be damaged. We call it .
when immune complexes develop. We have antigen-antibody reaction then
immune complexes develop and these immune complexes precipitate in tissues and then
complement will be activated and all what complement is going to bring into.
we call it . Occurs after 48-72 hours, like Mycobacterium
tuberculosis and contact dermatitis where macrophages and T-helper cells are going to be
involved and granuloma development as well.
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To Raghad Al-Sheyyab <3 ta7eyyeh mn il 8alb :') & to ALL the beloved ones.
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will
never forget how you made them feel" - Maya Angelou
… And that was it! :D
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