Chapter 6 New Insights into Melanosome Transport in Vertebrate Pigment Cells

International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology

Volumn 272, Issue C, 2008, Pages 245-302

  Aspengren, Sara ^a,b   Hedberg, Daniel ^b   Sköld, Helen Nilsson ^b   Wallin, Margareta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Camouflage; Chromatophore; Coloration; Cytoskeleton; Melanin; Melanocyte; Melanophore; Molecular motors

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; DYNACTIN; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GLYCOPROTEIN; HORMONE; INTERMEDIN; KINESIN; LECTIN; MELANIN; MELANOPHILIN; MELATONIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE; MOLECULAR MOTOR; MYOSIN V; NORADRENALIN; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN KINASE C ETA; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 2; RAB27A PROTEIN; RABS PROTEIN; RAC PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR; SNARE PROTEIN; SPECTRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; AMPHIBIA; CELL FUNCTION; CHROMATOPHORE; FISH; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LIGHT; MAMMAL; MELANOCYTE; MELANOPHORE; MELANOSOME; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PIGMENT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN CELL; SKIN COLOR; SKIN STRUCTURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; KERATINOCYTE; METABOLISM; MICROFILAMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SKIN; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; MELANINS; MELANOPHORES; MELANOSOMES; MICROFILAMENTS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; PIGMENTATION; SKIN; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SPECTRIN;

EID: 58049174237     PISSN: 19376448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1937-6448(08)01606-7     Document Type: Review

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