Making sense of melanosome dynamics in mouse melanocytes

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 241-247

  Wu, Xufeng ^a   Hammer III, John A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Melanocytes; Melanosomes; Molecular motors; Myosin

Indexed keywords

INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR; MYO5A PROTEIN, MOUSE; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; MYOSIN V;

ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; MELANOCYTE; MELANOSOME; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELLS, CULTURED; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MELANOCYTES; MELANOSOMES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOVEMENT; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; MYOSIN TYPE V;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; MELANOPHORA;

EID: 0033853883     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0749.2000.130405.x     Document Type: Review

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