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1 Complement Pathways Complement Activation Proteins are normally inactive - need to be activated (or transient) Activation - sequential proteolysis Covalent Attachment - become stably active after attaching to microbe (ab complexes) Regulation! - important to minimize complement mediated damage to host cells

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Complement Pathways

Complement Activation

Proteins are normally inactive -need to be activated (or transient)

Activation - sequential proteolysis

Covalent Attachment - becomestably active after attaching tomicrobe (ab complexes)

Regulation! - important tominimize complement mediateddamage to host cells

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C1 Inhibitor Regulation

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Inhibition of C3 Convertase Formation

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Factor I mediated cleavage of C3b