Excess tyrosine rescues the reduced activity of proliferation and differentiation of cultured recessive yellow melanocytes derived from neonatal mouse epidermis

European Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 315-330

  Hirobe, Tomohisa ^a,b   Abe, Hiyoyuki ^c   Wakamatsu, Kazumasa ^d   Ito, Shosuke ^d   Kawa, Yoko ^e   Soma, Yoshinao ^e   Mizoguchi, Masako ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eumelanin; Mc1r; Melanocyte; Melanosome; Pheomelanin; Recessive yellow; TRP1; TRP2 (DCT); Tyrosinase

Indexed keywords

BUCLADESINE; DOPACHROME TAUTOMERASE; EUMELANIN; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PHEOMELANIN; RECOMBINANT GAMMA INTERFERON; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIDERMIS; GENE MUTATION; MELANOCYTE; MELANOSOME; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; WILD TYPE;

MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 34249752183     PISSN: 01719335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcb.2007.03.007     Document Type: Article

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