MITF: A stream flowing for pigment cells

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 230-240

  Tachibana, Masayoshi ^a,b  

^a SAITAMA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endothelin; GSK 3 ; Melanocyte; MITF; Phosphorylation; Retinal pigment epithelium; Steel factor; WNT

Indexed keywords

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; ENDOTHELIN; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE ISOFORM; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN GENE; MELANOCYTE; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PIGMENT CELL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RETINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIETZE SYNDROME; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WAARDENBURG SYNDROME;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MELANOCYTES; MICE; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNDROME; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0033854056     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0749.2000.130404.x     Document Type: Review

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