Perforin-enhancing protein, a low molecular weight protein of cytotoxic lymphocyte granules, enhances perforin lysis

U Winkler, SA Fraser, D Hudig - Biochemical and biophysical research …, 1997 - Elsevier
… first report of a cytotoxic granule protein that enhances lysis by perforin. The protein, PEPr,
increases the number of red cells that are lysed by fixed amounts of perforin. PEPr appears …

Regulation of perforin lysis: Implications for protein disulfide isomerase proteins

DL Tamang, BN Alves, V Elliott, D Redelman… - Cellular …, 2009 - Elsevier
… unknown perforin inhibitor that is associated with cytotoxic granule … Dry NaCl was added to
increase the salt concentration to 1.15 M. … The low molecular weight protein bands contained …

Perforin lytic activity is controlled by calreticulin

SA Fraser, R Karimi, M Michalak… - The Journal of …, 2000 - journals.aai.org
… Calreticulin is the only KDEL protein found in cytotoxic lymphocyte granules, which … that
the increase in specific gravity of granules over the specific gravity of water was due to the …

Purification and characterization of lymphocyte chymase I, a granzyme implicated in perforin-mediated lysis

SL Woodard, SA Fraser, U Winkler… - The Journal of …, 1998 - journals.aai.org
… Our RNK-16 subline has retained granule lytic activity while … and irreversible conformation
that will not enhance lysis. … At this time, perforin and perforin enhancing protein (PEPr; …

Delivering the kiss of death

CM Trambas, GM Griffiths - Nature immunology, 2003 - nature.com
… specialized granules that contain potent cytotoxic molecules. … that perforin secretion from
the lytic granules caused cell … , perforin-deficient mice show enhanced lymphocyte expansion …

Decreased susceptibility of leukemic cells with PIG-Amutation to natural killer cells in vitro

S Nagakura, S Ishihara, DE Dunn… - Blood, The Journal …, 2002 - ashpublications.org
Perforin was purified from a mouse cytotoxic lymphocyte cell line (CTLL-R8.6) as reported …
of perforin by an increase in the pH of lytic granules.61 To inhibit perforin-mediated cytotoxicity

[图书][B] Regulation of perforin-mediated lysis by two endogenous granule proteins, calreticulin and Chymase I

SA Fraser - 1999 - search.proquest.com
… an increase in the granule pH, the granules become irregularly shaped and loose the small
… Thus, a mechanism to protect the cytotoxic lymphocyte from perforinmediated lysis must …

Sequence analysis of the granulysin and granzyme B genes in familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis

K Ericson, B Fadeel, M Andersson, GH Gudmundsson… - Human genetics, 2003 - Springer
… Moreover, a previously characterised “perforin-enhancing protein”, … ) Perforin-enhancing
protein, a low molecular weight protein of cytotoxic lymphocyte granules, enhances perforin lysis

NK Cells in Gamma-Interferon-Deficient Mice Suppress Lung Innate Immunity against Mycoplasma spp

MD Woolard, D Hudig, L Tabor, JA Ivey… - Infection and …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
… to mycoplasma infection, lymphocytes were isolated from cell … with perforin and block the
lytic activity of the granule extracts… with an increase in IFN-γ production. The BAL cells show an …

[图书][B] Granulysin-induced apoptosis involves membrane disruption, mitochondrial damage, and caspase 9 activation

AA Kaspar - 1999 - search.proquest.com
… Granulysin-induced apoptosis is associated with an increase in ceramide content and a …
perforin enhancing protein and that perforin and granulysin act individually to induce lysis. …