“…In this context, the cysteine-rich, ~6 kDa modules called granulins (GRNs 1-7), which are the proteolytic products of PGRN (Zhu et al, 2002) have been of great interest to us for their potential roles in FTLD and other related pathologies. It is now known that extracellular PGRN is endocytosed into the lysosome via a sortillin-mediated pathway to be processed by cathepsins into GRNs (C. W. Lee et al, 2017), which are thus speculated to possess lysosomal functions (Holler, Taylor, Deng, & Kukar, 2017;Root, Merino, Nuckols, Johnson, & Kukar, 2021). GRNs also function in a plethora of roles in normal cell biology (Park et al, 2011;Shoyab, McDonald, Byles, Todaro, & Plowman, 1990;Philip Van Damme et al, 2008) but possess opposing inflammatory properties to PGRN; while PGRN is anti-inflammatory, GRNs show proinflammatory properties (Zhu et al, 2002).…”