Possible paracrine function of α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone and inhibition of its melanin-dispersing activity by N-terminal acetylation in the skin of the barfin flounder, Verasper moseri

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 419-424

  Kobayashi, Yuki ^a   Mizusawa, Kanta ^a   Yamanome, Takeshi ^b   Chiba, Hiroaki ^a   Takahashi, Akiyoshi ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IWATE FISHERIES TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flounder; Mass spectrometry; Melanocyte stimulating hormone; Melanophore; MSH; Paracrine system; Pigmentation; POMC; Proopiomelanocortin; Skin; Xanthophore

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; HORMONE RECEPTOR; MELANIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ACETYLATION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOUNDER; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE INHIBITION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MELANOPHORE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN CELL; SKIN PIGMENTATION; VERASPER MOSERI; XANTHOPHORE;

EID: 63449092252     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2009.02.009     Document Type: Article

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