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SUBMITTER: Chitirala P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6692471 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chitirala Praneeth P Ravichandran Keerthana K Galgano Donatella D Sleiman Marwa M Krause Elmar E Bryceson Yenan T YT Rettig Jens J
Frontiers in immunology 20190807
Cytotoxic T lymphocytes kill infected or malignant cells through the directed release of cytotoxic substances at the site of target cell contact, the immunological synapse. While genetic association studies of genes predisposing to early-onset life-threatening hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis has identified components of the plasma membrane fusion machinery, the identity of the vesicular components remain enigmatic. Here, we identify VAMP7 as an essential component of the vesicular fusion mach ...[more]