Lighting a path to pigmentation: mechanisms of MITF induction by UV.

abstract：:From a therapeutic standpoint, vitiligo is still regarded by many physicians as a simple problem of regenerative medicine, with the main aim to repopulate the depigmented skin with functional melanocytes from the margins of the lesions or from intact progenitors in hair follicles. However, recent research in vitiligo ...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Taïeb A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) is caused by mutations in six different genes, and their molecular diagnosis encompasses the search for point mutations and intragenic rearrangements. Here, we used high-resolution array-comparative genome hybridization (CGH) to search for rearrangements across exons, introns and regulato...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Morice-Picard F,Lasseaux E,Cailley D,Gros A,Toutain J,Plaisant C,Simon D,François S,Gilbert-Dussardier B,Kaplan J,Rooryck C,Lacombe D,Arveiler B

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF) is a survival factor in melanocytes and melanoma cells. MITF regulates expression of antiapoptotic genes and promotes lineage-specific survival in response to ultraviolet (UV) radiation and to chemotherapeutics. SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling enzymes interact with MI...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Saladi SV,Wong PG,Trivedi AR,Marathe HG,Keenen B,Aras S,Liew ZQ,Setaluri V,de la Serna IL

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma central nervous system metastases are increasing, and the challenges presented by this patient population remain complex. In December 2015, the Melanoma Research Foundation and the Wistar Institute hosted the First Summit on Melanoma Central Nervous System (CNS) Metastases in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Here,...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Cohen JV,Tawbi H,Margolin KA,Amravadi R,Bosenberg M,Brastianos PK,Chiang VL,de Groot J,Glitza IC,Herlyn M,Holmen SL,Jilaveanu LB,Lassman A,Moschos S,Postow MA,Thomas R,Tsiouris JA,Wen P,White RM,Turnham T,Davies M

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncogenic mutations in BRAF are common in melanoma and drive constitutive activation of the MEK/ERK pathway. To elucidate the transcriptional events downstream of (V600E)BRAF/MEK signalling we performed gene expression profiling of A375 melanoma cells treated with potent and selective inhibitors of (V600E)BRAF and MEK...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Packer LM,East P,Reis-Filho JS,Marais R

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deubiquitinating enzyme BAP1 is mutated in a hereditary cancer syndrome with a high risk of mesothelioma and melanocytic tumors. Here, we show that Bap1 deletion in melanocytes cooperates with the constitutively active, oncogenic form of BRAF (BRAFV600E ) and UV to cause melanoma in mice, albeit at very low freque...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Webster JD,Pham TH,Wu X,Hughes NW,Li Z,Totpal K,Lee HJ,Calses PC,Chaurushiya MS,Stawiski EW,Modrusan Z,Chang MT,Tran C,Lee WP,Chalasani S,Hung J,Sharma N,Chan S,Hotzel K,Talevich E,Shain A,Xu M,Lill J,Dixit

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently reported that human melanoma cells express a variety of voltage-gated calcium (Ca(2+) ) channel types, including low-voltage-activated T-type channels that play a significant role in melanoma cell cycle progression. Here, we challenged melanoma metastatic cells with T-type channel blockers of clinical...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Das A,Pushparaj C,Herreros J,Nager M,Vilella R,Portero M,Pamplona R,Matias-Guiu X,Martí RM,Cantí C

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS) is a rare recessive disorder characterized by hypopigmentation, bleeding diathesis, and other symptoms due to multiple defects in lysosome-related organelles. Ten HPS subtypes have been identified with mutations in HPS1 to HPS10. Only four patients with HPS-1 have been reported in Chine...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Wei A,Yuan Y,Bai D,Ma J,Hao Z,Zhang Y,Yu J,Zhou Z,Yang L,Yang X,Li L,Li W

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology offers a novel approach for conversion of human primary fibroblasts into melanocytes. During attempts to explore various protocols for differentiation of iPSCs into melanocytes, we found a distinct and self-renewing cell lineage that could differentiate into melanocytes,...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Hosaka C,Kunisada M,Koyanagi-Aoi M,Masaki T,Takemori C,Taniguchi-Ikeda M,Aoi T,Nishigori C

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of melanin pigment within the iris is responsible for the visual impression of human eye colouration with complex patterns also evident in this tissue, including Fuchs' crypts, nevi, Wolfflin nodules and contraction furrows. The genetic basis underlying the determination and inheritance of these traits ha...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Sturm RA,Larsson M

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence on the relationship between the vitamin D pathway and outcomes in melanoma is growing, although it is not always clear. We investigated the impact of measured levels of sun exposure at diagnosis on associations of vitamin D receptor gene (VDR) polymorphisms and melanoma death in 3336 incident primary melanoma...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Orlow I,Shi Y,Kanetsky PA,Thomas NE,Luo L,Corrales-Guerrero S,Cust AE,Sacchetto L,Zanetti R,Rosso S,Armstrong BK,Dwyer T,Venn A,Gallagher RP,Gruber SB,Marrett LD,Anton-Culver H,Busam K,Begg CB,Berwick M,GEM Study

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a frequent genetic disease leading to the development of Schwann cell-derived neurofibromas or melanocytic lesions called café-au-lait macules (CALMs). The molecular mechanisms involved in CALMs formation remain largely unknown. In this report, we show for the first time pathophysiolo...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Larribere L,Wu H,Novak D,Galach M,Bernhardt M,Orouji E,Weina K,Knappe N,Sachpekidis C,Umansky L,Beckhove P,Umansky V,De Schepper S,Kaufmann D,Ballotti R,Bertolotto C,Utikal J

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription factors initiate programs of gene expression and are catalysts in downstream molecular cascades that modulate a variety of cellular processes. Pax3 is a transcription factor that is important in the melanocyte and influences melanocytic proliferation, resistance to apoptosis, migration, lineage specifici...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Kubic JD,Young KP,Plummer RS,Ludvik AE,Lang D

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanins (eumelanin and pheomelanin) are synthesized in insects for several purposes including cuticle sclerotization and color patterning, clot formation, organogenesis, and innate immunity. Traditional views of insect immunity detail the storage of pro-phenoloxidases inside specialized blood cells (hemocytes) and th...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Whitten MMA,Coates CJ

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantification of melanins is a complex task due to the chemical heterogeneity of the pigments and the difficulty of their isolation. The best accepted procedure currently consists in the chemical cleavage of melanins and the subsequent detection of degradation products by HPLC, which implies the destruction of sa...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Galván I,Jorge A,Ito K,Tabuchi K,Solano F,Wakamatsu K

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many melanoma cells are resistant to the anti-proliferative effect of all trans retinoic acid (ATRA). Retinoic Acid Receptor-beta2 (RAR-beta2) mediates the ATRA growth inhibition. We found a correlation between the anti-proliferative activity of ATRA and expression of RAR-beta2. There was not a strict correlation betw...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Fan J,Eastham L,Varney ME,Hall A,Adkins NL,Chetel L,Sollars VE,Georgel P,Niles RM

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are many techniques for evaluating melanosome transfer to keratinocytes but the spectrophotometric quantification of melanosomes incorporated by keratinocyte phagocytosis has not been previously reported. Here we describe a new method that allows the spectrophotometric visualization of melanosome uptake by norma...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Ando H,Niki Y,Yoshida M,Ito M,Akiyama K,Kim JH,Yoon TJ,Lee JH,Matsui MS,Ichihashi M

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giant congenital melanocytic nevi may be symptomatically isolated or syndromic. Associations with capillary malformations are exceptional, and development of epidermal cysts has not been described. A 71-year-old patient with a giant congenital melanocytic nevus (CMN) of the lower back, buttocks, and thighs was asympto...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Etchevers HC,Rose C,Kahle B,Vorbringer H,Fina F,Heux P,Berger I,Schwarz B,Zaffran S,Macagno N,Krengel S

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uveal melanoma (UVM) is the most common primary intraocular malignancy in adults. With over 50% of patients developing metastatic disease, there is an unmet need for improved diagnostic and therapeutic options. Efforts to understand the molecular biology of the disease have revealed several markers that correlate with...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Londin E,Magee R,Shields CL,Lally SE,Sato T,Rigoutsos I

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bromodomain and extra-terminal inhibitors (BETi) delay tumor growth, in part, through tumor cell intrinsic alterations and initiation of anti-tumor CD8+ T-cell responses. By contrast, BETi effects on pro-tumoral immune responses remain unclear. Here, we show that the next-generation BETi, PLX51107, delayed tumor growt...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Erkes DA,Rosenbaum SR,Field CO,Chervoneva I,Villanueva J,Aplin AE

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastatic melanoma is extremely refractory to existing chemotherapeutic drugs and bioimmune adjuvant therapies, and the life span of patients with metastatic melanoma is often measured in months. Understanding the mechanisms responsible for the development of tumor metastasis is critical for finding successful curati...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Melnikova VO,Bar-Eli M

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 4th international melanoma congress of the Society for Melanoma Research (SMR), organized by Marianne Berwick (University of New Mexico), Paul Chapman (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), Rene Gonzalez (University of Colorado) and Ze'ev Ronai (Burnham Institute), was held at the Marriott Hotel in downtown New...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Fisher DE,Medrano EE,McMahon M,Soengas MS,Schuchter L,Wolchok JD,Merlino G

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined nevi and melanomas in 10 xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) patients with defective DNA repair. The lesions had a lentiginous appearance with markedly increased numbers of melanocytes. Using laser capture microdissection, we performed DNA sequencing of 18 benign and atypical nevi and 75 melanomas (melanoma in situ...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Masaki T,Wang Y,DiGiovanna JJ,Khan SG,Raffeld M,Beltaifa S,Hornyak TJ,Darling TN,Lee CC,Kraemer KH

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma incidence continues to rise at an alarming rate while effective systemic therapies remain very limited. Microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF) is required for development of melanocytes and is an amplified oncogene in a fraction of human melanomas. Microphthalmia-associated transcription factor...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Yokoyama S,Feige E,Poling LL,Levy C,Widlund HR,Khaled M,Kung AL,Fisher DE

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle is the central hub of oxidative metabolism, running in the classic forward direction to provide carbon for biosynthesis and reducing agents for generation of ATP. Our metabolic tracer studies in melanoma cells showed that in hypoxic conditions the TCA cycle is largely disconnected fr...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Filipp FV,Scott DA,Ronai ZA,Osterman AL,Smith JW

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncogenic BRAF and NRAS mutations drive human melanoma initiation. We used transgenic zebrafish to model NRAS-mutant melanoma, and the rapid tumor onset allowed us to study candidate tumor suppressors. We identified P38α-MAPK14 as a potential tumor suppressor in The Cancer Genome Atlas melanoma cohort of NRAS-mutant m...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Banik I,Cheng PF,Dooley CM,Travnickova J,Merteroglu M,Dummer R,Patton EE,Busch-Nentwich EM,Levesque MP

更新日期：2020-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncogenic BRAF mutations are more frequent in cutaneous melanoma occurring at sites with little or moderate sun-induced damage than at sites with severe cumulative solar ultraviolet (UV) damage. We studied cutaneous melanomas from geographic regions with different levels of ambient UV radiation to delineate the relati...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Bauer J,Büttner P,Murali R,Okamoto I,Kolaitis NA,Landi MT,Scolyer RA,Bastian BC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A SNP within intron4 of the interferon regulatory factor4 (IRF4) gene, rs12203592*C/T, has been independently associated with pigmentation and age-specific effects on naevus count in European-derived populations. We have characterized the cis-regulatory activity of this intronic region and using human foreskin-derived...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Chhabra Y,Yong HXL,Fane ME,Soogrim A,Lim W,Mahiuddin DN,Kim RSQ,Ashcroft M,Beatson SA,Ainger SA,Smit DJ,Jagirdar K,Walker GJ,Sturm RA,Smith AG

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that Wnt5A-mediated signaling can promote melanoma metastasis. It has been shown that Wnt signaling is antagonized by the protein Klotho, which has been implicated in aging. We show here that in melanoma cells, expressions of Wnt5A and Klotho are inversely correlated. In the presence of recomb...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Camilli TC,Xu M,O'Connell MP,Chien B,Frank BP,Subaran S,Indig FE,Morin PJ,Hewitt SM,Weeraratna AT

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although L-tyrosine is well known for its melanogenic effect, the contribution of D-tyrosine to melanin synthesis was previously unexplored. Here, we reveal that, unlike L-tyrosine, D-tyrosine dose-dependently reduced the melanin contents of human MNT-1 melanoma cells and primary human melanocytes. In addition, 500 μM...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Park J,Jung H,Kim K,Lim KM,Kim JY,Jho EH,Oh ES

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00