ArticleiScience2020
Granzyme B Attenuates Bacterial Virulence by Targeting Secreted Factors.
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- Pathotype-Specific Expression of Granzyme-Perforin Pathway Genes and Their Association With Clinical Disease Activity in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis and in a Randomized Clinical Trial.Immune network · 2025Article
- Chronic Wound Initiation: Single-Cell RNAseq of Cutaneous Wound Tissue and Contributions of Oxidative Stress to Initiation of Chronicity.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Executioner caspases degrade essential mediators of pathogen-host interactions to inhibit growth of intracellular Listeria monocytogenes.Cell death & disease · 2025Article
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- Natural killer cells kill extracellular Pseudomonas aeruginosa using contact-dependent release of granzymes B and H.PLoS pathogens · 2022Article
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- Oxidative and Non-Oxidative Antimicrobial Activities of the Granzymes.Frontiers in immunology · 2021Review
- A Profound Membrane Reorganization Defines Susceptibility ofFrontiers in immunology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Pathogenic bacteria secrete virulence factors that interact with the human host to establish infections. The human immune system evolved multiple mechanisms to fight bacterial invaders, including immune proteases that were demonstrated to contribute crucially to antibacterial defense. Here we show that granzyme B degrades multiple secreted virulence mediators from Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella typhimurium, and Mycobacteria tuberculosis. Pathogenic bacteria, when infected in the presence of granzyme B or granzyme-secreting killer cells, fail to grow in human macrophages and epithelial cells owing to their crippled virulence. A granzyme B-uncleavable mutant form of the major Listeria virulence factor, listeriolysin O, rescued the virulence defect in response to granzyme treatment. Hence, we link the degradation of a single factor with the observed decrease in virulent bacteria growth. Overall, we reveal here an innate immune barrier function of granzyme B by disrupting bacterial virulence to facilitate bacteria clearance by bystander immune and non-immune cells.
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