Wnt/β-catenin signaling is stimulated by α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in melanoma and melanocyte cells: Implication in cell differentiation

Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 309-325

  Bellei, Barbara ^a   Pitisci, Angela ^a   Catricalà, Caterina ^a   Larue, Lionel ^b   Picardo, Mauro ^a  

^a SAN GALLICANO DERMATOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

MSH; catenin; CAMP; CREB; Melanogenesis; PKA

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; AXIN; BETA CATENIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN BINDING PROTEIN; CYCLIN D1; FORSKOLIN; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; LYMPHOID ENHANCER FACTOR 1; MESSENGER RNA; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NATURAL RESISTANCE ASSOCIATED MACROPHAGE PROTEIN 2; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SURVIVIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN 1; UBIQUITIN; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STIMULATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; MELANOMA CELL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ADULT; ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CYCLIC AMP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MICE; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 79952600202     PISSN: 17551471     EISSN: 1755148X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-148X.2010.00800.x     Document Type: Article

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