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The authors wish to apologize to the many authors involved in studies that were uncited in this article and acknowledge that numerous references were not included due to space/reference limitation. Many of the references therefore refer to review articles where the original studies are cited.

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    Christopher T. Turner, Valerio Russo, Stephanie Santacruz, Cameron Oram & David J. Granville

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Turner, C.T., Russo, V., Santacruz, S., Oram, C., Granville, D.J. (2018). Granzyme B. In: Choi, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67199-4_101961

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