Melanocytes are more responsive to IFN-γ and produce higher amounts of kynurenine than melanoma cells

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 397, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 85-90

  Clara, Renan Orsati ^a   Assmann, Nadine ^b   Ramos Moreno, Ana Carolina ^a   Coimbra, Janine Baptista ^a   Nurenberger, Nadine ^b   Dettmer Wilde, Katja ^b   Oefner, Peter Josef ^b   Campa, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

interferon ; melanocytes; melanoma; metabolism; tryptophan

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; KYNURENINE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOREGULATION; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA CELL; MELANOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SKIN CELL; SKIN FUNCTION; STROMA CELL; TUMOR ESCAPE; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; BIOSYNTHESIS; MELANOMA; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; KYNURENINE; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA;

EID: 84950151992     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2015-0173     Document Type: Article

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