The pink-eyed dilution locus controls the biogenesis of melanosomes and levels of melanosomal proteins in the eye

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 147-154

  Orlow, Seth J ^a   Brilliant, Murray H ^b,c  

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

^b FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

P locus controls melanosome biogenesis

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MELANIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CHOROID; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; MELANOCYTE; MELANOSOME; MOUSE MUTANT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033083648     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exer.1998.0599     Document Type: Article

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