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Killing of target cells by redirected granzyme B in the absence of perforin

Florian C Kurschus1, Martin Kleinschmidt, Edward Fellows

  • 1Department of Neuroimmunology, Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology, Am Klopferspitz 18A, D-82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany. kurschus@neuro.mpg.de

FEBS Letters
|March 27, 2004
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