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Temperature sensitivity of human perforin mutants unmasks subtotal loss of cytotoxicity, delayed FHL, and a predisposition to cancer.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 16 Jun 2009
Chia Jenny, Yeo Kim Pin, Whisstock James C, Dunstone Michelle A, Trapani Joseph A, Voskoboinik Ilia
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The pore-forming protein perforin is critical for defense against many human pathogens and for preventing a catastrophic collapse of immune homeostasis, manifested in infancy as Type 2 familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHL). However, no evidence has yet linked defective perforin cytoto...
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