SEPARATION OF SELF FROM NON-SELF IN THE COMPLEMENT-SYSTEM
SEPARATION OF SELF FROM NON-SELF IN THE COMPLEMENT-SYSTEM
复制标题
DOI:
10.1016/0167-5699(87)90167-8
复制
发表时间:
1987-07-01
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
FARRIES, T
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
ATKINSON, JP;FARRIES, T
The alternative complement pathway is a serf-contained and independent recognition and effector pathway that evolved to protect the host from microbes. As such, it must separate self from non-self Via low grade continuous turnover fiickover) of the pivotal C3 component, the a/temat/ve complement pathway is always on guard to defend the host. Activated C3 binds continuously to self tissue and to foreign tissue, if present. There is no apparent discrimination at this initiation step. However, the amplification of C3 deposition on self (but not foreign) tissue, a necessity in establishing the effector fun~'ons of this pathway is inhibited by a series of func~ bnally, structurally and genetically related plasma and membrane glycopro~'ns which down-regulate complement activation. These regulatory molecules are widely distributed on human tissue. The plasma proteins are preferentially active on fluid-phase components~ Vnile membrane-bound forms act on ceil-bound components. Here, John Atkinson and timothy Farries discuss these inhibitors of complement activation and suggest that their action explat'm_ the abih'ty of Lhe a! termtive n,= th~-~ u tn............ i,,,~,, vv~ l,, v amplify on foreign P= sue but be down-regulated on autologous tissue.Traditionally, the complement system has been considered to represent an effector arm of the humoral immune system. In the immune host, antibody selects the target and the resulting antigen-antibody complex may activate the classical complement pathway. This pathway assists antibody in the handling of immune complexes through the deposition of its opsonic (C3b, C4b) fragments on antigens recognized as foreign by the hJmoral immune system. These bound opsonic fragments can in turn interact with complement receptors and C3b can also initiate the terminal lytic complex. The inflammatory response is promoted by the release of chemotactic factors and anaphylatoxins. In this view of comp! ement a.-tivation the alternative pathway is just a means of amplifying C3 deposition at the site where the immune complex has formed and fixed complement. A second way of looking at the system is that the alternative pathway is the primitive or original complement system and the classical pathway is primarily a means of connect; ng another (humoral) immune s~ stem