Granzyme B (GraB) autonomously crosses the cell membrane and perforin initiates apoptosis and GraB nuclear localization

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 185, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 855-866

  Shi, Lianfa ^a   Mai, Sabine ^a   Israels, Sara ^a   Browne, Kylie ^b   Trapani, Joseph A ^b   Greenberg, Arnold H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b AUSTIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANZYME B; PERFORIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOPLASM; ENERGY METABOLISM; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; GRANZYMES; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; RATS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 0030892138     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.185.5.855     Document Type: Article

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