Cytotoxic T lymphocyte-induced killing in the absence of granzymes A and B is unique and distinct from both apoptosis and perforin-dependent lysis

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 133-144

  Waterhouse, Nigel J ^a,b   Sutton, Vivien R ^a   Sedelies, Karin A ^a   Ciccone, Annette ^a   Jenkins, Misty ^b   Turner, Stephen J ^b   Bird, Phillip I ^c   Trapani, Joseph A ^a,b  

^a PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANZYME A; GRANZYME B; PERFORIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; KINETICS; LYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; CELL SURFACE EXTENSIONS; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; GRANZYMES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33645742877     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200510072     Document Type: Article

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