RE: Natural Killers

[mcw]

Actually I am not too sure what is granules (I thought granules is small particulates? but you said it is something with enzyme?)
Sounds like lysosome ? or it is not an organelle

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[suesa]

Cytolytic lymphocytes contain specialized lytic granules whose secretion during cell-mediated cytolysis results in target cell death. Using serial section EM of RNK-16, a natural killer cell line, we show that there are structurally distinct types of granules. Each type is composed of varying proportions of a dense core domain and a multivesicular cortical domain. The dense core domains contain secretory proteins thought to play a role in cytolysis, including cytolysin and chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan. In contrast, the multivesicular domains contain lysosomal proteins

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2116378/

[mcw]

Haha i see~
Still got a long way for me to learn biology lol