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Perforin-2 clockwise hand-over-hand pre-pore to pore transition mechanism
Perforin-2 (PFN2, MPEG1) is a pore-forming protein that acts as a first line of defense in the mammalian immune system, rapidly killing engulfed microbes within the phagolysosome in macrophages. PFN2 self-assembles into hexadecameric pre-pore rings that transition upon acidification into pores damag...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9418332/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36028507 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32757-4 |