Granzyme B: A natural born killer

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 193, Issue , 2003, Pages 31-38

  Lord, Sarah J ^a   Rajotte, Ray V ^a   Korbutt, Gregory S ^a   Bleackley, R Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CASPASE 10; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 6; CASPASE 7; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; CYTOCHROME C; DNA FRAGMENT; GRANZYME B; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; PERFORIN; PROTEIN BID;

APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOSOL; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOSOME; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXOCYTOSIS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TARGET CELL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GRANZYMES; HUMANS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

EID: 0037833737     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-065X.2003.00044.x     Document Type: Review

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