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Perforin pores in the endosomal membrane trigger the release of endocytosed granzyme B into the cytosol of target cells.

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It is shown that perforin formed pores in the gigantosome membrane, allowing endosomal cargo, including granzymes, to be gradually released.
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How the pore-forming protein perforin delivers apoptosis-inducing granzymes to the cytosol of target cells is uncertain. Perforin induces a transient Ca2+ flux in the target cell, which triggers a process to repair the damaged cell membrane. As a consequence, both perforin and granzymes are endocytosed into enlarged endosomes called 'gigantosomes'. Here we show that perforin formed pores in the gigantosome membrane, allowing endosomal cargo, including granzymes, to be gradually released. After about 15 min, gigantosomes ruptured, releasing their remaining content. Thus, perforin delivers granzymes by a two-step process that involves first transient pores in the cell membrane that trigger the endocytosis of granzyme and perforin and then pore formation in endosomes to trigger cytosolic release.

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Investigating the role of T-cells in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Reiss Reed
TL;DR: This thesis addressed contradictory aspects of the role of T-cells in CLL by investigating the basis for immune dysfunction, and characterisation, involving mass spectrometry and HPLC, mapped T-cell specificity to a modified peptide (LLSY(3-tBu)FGTPT).
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Hemocompatible L-Type amino acid transporter 1 (LAT1)-Utilizing prodrugs of perforin inhibitors can accumulate into the pancreas and alleviate inflammation-induced apoptosis.

TL;DR: In this article, the distribution of two LAT1-utilizing prodrugs of investigational perforin inhibitors into the pancreas was explored after intraperitoneal (i.p., 30μmol/kg) bolus injection to mice.
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Immunohistochemical expression of perforin in lichen planus lesions.

TL;DR: Accumulation of perforin + cells in the epidermis of LP lesions suggest a potential role of per forin in the apoptosis of basal keratinocytes.
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Bucket lists must be completed during cell death.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors define a set of effector programs before they die, which they define as a cellular "bucket list". These effector program are specific to the cell type, and mode and circumstances of death.
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The Immunological Synapse: A Molecular Machine Controlling T Cell Activation

TL;DR: Immunological synapse formation is now shown to be an active and dynamic mechanism that allows T cells to distinguish potential antigenic ligands and was a determinative event for T cell proliferation.
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Vacuolar ATPases: rotary proton pumps in physiology and pathophysiology.

TL;DR: The acidity of intracellular compartments and the extracellular environment is crucial to various cellular processes, including membrane trafficking, protein degradation, bone resorption and sperm maturation, and the V-ATPases represent attractive and potentially highly specific drug targets.
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The small GTPase rab5 functions as a regulatory factor in the early endocytic pathway.

TL;DR: It is concluded that rab5 is a rate-limiting component of the machinery regulating the kinetics of membrane traffic in the early endocytic pathway.
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Bafilomycin A1, a specific inhibitor of vacuolar-type H(+)-ATPase, inhibits acidification and protein degradation in lysosomes of cultured cells.

TL;DR: Results suggest that the vacuolar type H(+)-ATPase plays a pivotal role in acidification and protein degradation in the lysosomes in vivo.
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