Natural Killer Cells are a Form of Granular Lymphocytes of Varying Sizes

 

Natural Killer Cells
Natural Killer Cells

Natural killer cells undergo positive and negative selection to weed out self-targeting cells as they develop in the primary lymphoid tissue of the bone marrow. When fully developed, they relocate to secondary lymphoid tissues where they go through terminal maturation.

Both stimulatory and inhibitory receptors, such as killer cell immunoglobulin like receptors (KIR) and NKG2D, are present on mature NK cells and regulate the activity of the cell. It is known that there are over 20 activating receptors that are used to identify proteins that are not typically found on a cell's surface. Self-MHC I proteins are primarily recognised by inhibitory receptors. This is due to the fact that numerous virus types have developed immunological evasion mechanisms by downregulating MHC class I, which prevents the immune system from recognising their viral antigens.

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Overall, if there is a balance between inhibitory and stimulatory signals, the inhibitory signals will take precedence over the activation signals, preventing the activation of the NK cell and preventing the killing of the self-cell. However, NK cells will be activated if there is a low inhibitory signal as a result of decreased MHC I on the cell surface or a high activation signal as a result of increased production of stress ligands. When NK cells become active, they introduce cytotoxic chemical-containing lytic granules into the infected cell. Before perforins and granzyme B are released, an immunological synapse is established between the NK cells and the infected cell. Granzyme B, an enzyme that causes cell death, enters the cell through pores in the membrane that perforins create. Granzyme B then triggers caspase-mediated apoptosis, which kills the cell. In addition to producing the cytokines IFN and TNF, activated NK cells also stimulate the acquired immune response by drawing in additional immune system players.

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