The cytotoxic protease granzyme M is expressed by lymphocytes of both the innate and adaptive immune system

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 903-911

  de Koning, Pieter J A ^a   Tesselaar, Kiki ^a   Bovenschen, Niels ^a   Çolak, Selçuk ^a   Quadir, Razi ^a   Volman, Thomas J H ^a   Kummer, J Alain ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antibody; Expression; Granzyme; Granzyme M; NK cell; Protease; Regulation; T cell

Indexed keywords

GRANZYME; GRANZYME B; GRANZYME M; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PERFORIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECTOR CELL; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME REGULATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GAMMA DELTA T CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL LINE; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GRANZYMES; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY, INNATE; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTES; PERFORIN; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 72949102631     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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