PMEL: A pigment cell-specific model for functional amyloid formation

Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 300-315

  Watt, Brenda ^a   Van Niel, Guillaume ^b,c   Raposo, Graça ^b,c   Marks, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Alzheimer Disease; Fibrils; Melanosome; Multivesicular body; Pmel17; Proprotein processing; Silver

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; GLYCOPROTEIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PMEL PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENDOSOME; FIBER; HUMAN; MELANOCYTE; MELANOSOME; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SECRETORY PATHWAY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMYLOID; ANIMALS; GP100 MELANOMA ANTIGEN; HUMANS; MELANOCYTES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84876816383     PISSN: 17551471     EISSN: 1755148X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pcmr.12067     Document Type: Article

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