Regulation of the catalytic activity of preexisting tyrosinase in black and caucasian human melanocyte cell cultures

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 262, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 197-208

  Fuller, Bryan B ^a   Spaulding, Deborah T ^a   Smith, Dustin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Lysosomotropic compounds; Melanocyte; Melanosome; Tyrosinase; V ATPase

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; BAFILOMYCIN; IONOPHORE; MONENSIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NIGERICIN; PROTON PUMP;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CELL PH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOSOME; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 0035862188     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/excr.2000.5092     Document Type: Article

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