Melanosomal defects in melanocytes from mice lacking expression of the pink-eyed dilution gene: Correction by culture in the presence of excess tyrosine

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 239, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 344-352

  Rosemblat, Susana ^a   Sviderskaya, Elena V ^b   Easty, David J ^b   Wilson, Amanda ^b   Kwon, Byoung S ^c   Bennett, Dorothy C ^b   Orlow, Seth J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OCULOCUTANEOUS ALBINISM; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0031815187     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/excr.1997.3901     Document Type: Article

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