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NATURE IMMUNOLOGY
卷 12, 期 8, 页码 770-U146出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ni.2050
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- US National Institutes of Health [AI063430, GM075252]
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Canadian Cancer Society
- Stiefel-Zangger Foundation
- Human Frontier Science Program Organization
- Harvard Digestive Diseases Center
- Immune Disease Institute
- GlaxoSmithKline Alliance
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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