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 samples. Here, we show that Raman spectroscopy is a non-invasive technique that can be used to quantify melanins. We made parallel analyses of the characteristics of pheomelanin and eumelanin Raman spectra as measured by confocal Raman microscopy and of degradation products of pheomelanin (4-amino-3-hydroxyphenylalanine, 4-AHP) and eumelanin (pyrrole-2,3,5-tricarboxylic acid, PTCA) as measured by HPLC in feathers of red-legged partridges and hairs of wild boars and humans. We found strong correlations between the spectral Raman characteristics and 4-AHP and PTCA levels, which indicates that the Raman spectra of melanins can be used to determine their content.
journal_name
Pigment Cell Melanoma Resjournal_title
Pigment cell & melanoma researchauthors
Galván I,Jorge A,Ito K,Tabuchi K,Solano F,Wakamatsu Kdoi
10.1111/pcmr.12140subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2013-11-01 00:00:00pages
917-23issue
6eissn
1755-1471issn
1755-148Xjournal_volume
26pub_type
杂志文章abstract::Mutations within the OCA2 gene or the complete absence of the OCA2 protein leads to oculocutaneous albinism type 2. The OCA2 protein plays a central role in melanosome biogenesis, and it is a strong determinant of the eumelanin content in melanocytes. Transcript levels of the OCA2 gene are strongly correlated with pig...
journal_title:Pigment cell & melanoma research
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1111/pcmr.12210
更新日期:2014-03-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/pcmr.12735
更新日期:2019-03-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/pcmr.12845
更新日期:2020-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::BRAF inhibitors improve melanoma patient survival, but resistance invariably develops. Here we report the discovery of a novel BRAF mutation that confers resistance to PLX4032 employing whole-exome sequencing of drug-resistant BRAF(V600K) melanoma cells. We further describe a new screening approach, a genome-wide pigg...
journal_title:Pigment cell & melanoma research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/pcmr.12197
更新日期:2014-03-01 00:00:00
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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1111/j.1755-148X.2011.00939.x
更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Acral melanoma is a rare melanoma subtype with distinct epidemiological, clinical and genetic features. To determine if acral melanoma cell lines are representative of this melanoma subtype, six lines were analysed by whole-exome sequencing and array comparative genomic hybridisation. We demonstrate that the cell line...
journal_title:Pigment cell & melanoma research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1755-148X.2012.01016.x
更新日期:2012-07-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1755-148X.2010.00702.x
更新日期:2010-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::One of the main advantages of using inducible and conditional transgenes to study pigment cell biology is that they allow for genetic manipulation within melanocytes after roles in general neural crest or melanoblast development have been fulfilled. Specifically, we focus here on the ability of the Tyr::CreER(T) ...
journal_title:Pigment cell & melanoma research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/pcmr.12048
更新日期:2013-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Hair color and skin color are frequently coordinated in mammalian species. To explore this, we have studied mutations in two different G protein coupled pathways, each of which affects the darkness of both hair and skin color. In each mouse mutant (Gnaq(Dsk1), Gna11(Dsk7), and Mc1r(e)), we analyzed the melanocyte dens...
journal_title:Pigment cell & melanoma research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1755-148X.2009.00609.x
更新日期:2009-12-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/pcmr.12155
更新日期:2013-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::While sunlight is important for life, ultraviolet radiation (UVR) can have harmful and mutagenic effects. This duality is particularly relevant to human skin, in which UVR both participates in evolutionarily important photochemical reactions yet may act as a potential carcinogen. UVR can upregulate production of melan...
journal_title:Pigment cell & melanoma research
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1111/j.1755-148X.2010.00775.x
更新日期:2010-12-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1755-148X.2009.00640.x
更新日期:2010-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The protease-activated receptor-2 (PAR-2) is a seven transmembrane G-protein-coupled receptor that could be activated by serine protease cleavage or by synthetic peptide agonists. We showed earlier that activation of PAR-2 with Ser-Leu-Ile-Gly-Arg-Leu-NH(2) (SLIGRL), a known PAR-2 activating peptide, induces keratinoc...
journal_title:Pigment cell & melanoma research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1755-148X.2008.00441.x
更新日期:2008-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Human melanomas exhibit relatively high somatic mutation burden compared to other malignancies. These somatic mutations may produce neoantigens that are recognized by the immune system, leading to an antitumor response. By irradiating a parental mouse melanoma cell line carrying three driver mutations with UVB and exp...
journal_title:Pigment cell & melanoma research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/pcmr.12591
更新日期:2017-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Dyschromatosis symmetrica hereditaria (DSH) is a pigmentary genodermatosis caused by mutations in ADAR1. In this study, we performed mutation analysis on a family that included typical DSH patients. No mutations were found in any coding regions or exon-intron boundary regions of ADAR1, but a previously unreported non-...
journal_title:Pigment cell & melanoma research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/pcmr.12863
更新日期:2020-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::The complex genetic changes underlying metastatic melanoma need to be deciphered to develop new and effective therapeutics. Previously, genome-wide microarray analyses of human melanoma identified two reciprocal gene expression programs, including transcripts regulated by either transforming growth factor, beta 1 (TGF...
journal_title:Pigment cell & melanoma research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/pcmr.12255
更新日期:2014-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Binding of melanocortin peptide agonists to the melanocortin-1 receptor of melanocytes results in eumelanin production, whereas binding of the agouti signalling protein inverse agonist results in pheomelanin synthesis. Recently, a novel melanocortin-1 receptor ligand was reported. A β-defensin gene mutation was found ...
journal_title:Pigment cell & melanoma research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1755-148X.2012.00990.x
更新日期:2012-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::PMEL is a pigment cell-specific protein responsible for the formation of fibrillar sheets within the pigment organelle, the melanosome. The fibrillar sheets serve as a template upon which melanins polymerize as they are synthesized. The PMEL fibrils are required for optimal pigment cell function, as animals that eithe...
journal_title:Pigment cell & melanoma research
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1111/pcmr.12067
更新日期:2013-05-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1111/j.1755-148X.2009.00606.x
更新日期:2009-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::From the onset of melanocyte specification from the neural crest, throughout their migration during embryogenesis and until they reside in their niche in the basal keratinocyte layer, melanocytes interact in dynamic ways with the extracellular environment of the growing embryo. To recognize and to adhere to their envi...
journal_title:Pigment cell & melanoma research
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1111/j.1755-148X.2010.00806.x
更新日期:2011-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Ultraviolet radiation (UVR) can play two roles: induce cellular senescence and convert skin melanocytes into melanoma. To assess whether this conversion might rely on melanocytes having to first acquire a senescent phenotype, we studied the effects of physiological doses of UVR (UVA + UVB) on quiescent melanocytes in ...
journal_title:Pigment cell & melanoma research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/pcmr.12888
更新日期:2020-09-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/pcmr.12925
更新日期:2020-09-10 00:00:00
abstract::RS-4-(4-Hydroxyphenyl)-2-butanol (rhododendrol, RD) was reported to induce leukoderma of the skin. To explore the mechanism underlying that effect, we previously showed that oxidation of RD with mushroom tyrosinase produces RD-quinone, which is converted to secondary quinone products, and we suggested that those quino...
journal_title:Pigment cell & melanoma research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/pcmr.12363
更新日期:2015-05-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1755-148X.2008.00480.x
更新日期:2008-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer; a primary driver of this high level of morbidity is the propensity of melanoma cells to metastasize. When malignant tumours develop distant metastatic lesions the new local tissue niche is known to impact on the biology of the cancer cells. However, little is known about ...
journal_title:Pigment cell & melanoma research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/pcmr.12812
更新日期:2020-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1111/j.1755-148X.2008.00514.x
更新日期:2008-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::The aim of present study was to evaluate CD4(+) /CD8(+) ratio and CD4(+) CD25(hi) FoxP3(+) Tregs in GV patients with reference to their effect on disease onset and progression. Flow cytometry was used for determination of CD4(+) /CD8(+) ratio and Tregs in 82 patients and 50 controls. CD8(+) T-cell counts were signific...
journal_title:Pigment cell & melanoma research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/pcmr.12105
更新日期:2013-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Albinism is a rare genetic condition globally characterized by a number of specific deficits in the visual system, resulting in poor vision, in association with a variable hypopigmentation phenotype. This lack or reduction in pigment might affect the eyes, skin, and hair (oculocutaneous albinism, OCA), or only the eye...
journal_title:Pigment cell & melanoma research
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1111/pcmr.12167
更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Metformin is the most widely used antidiabetic drug that belongs to the biguanide class. It is very well tolerated and has the major clinical advantage of not inducing hypoglycemia. Metformin decreases hepatic glucose production via a mechanism requiring liver kinase B1, which controls the metabolic checkpoint, AMP-ac...
journal_title:Pigment cell & melanoma research
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1111/pcmr.12267
更新日期:2015-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Oculocutaneous albinism type 1 (OCA1) is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the tyrosinase gene. Two subtypes of OCA1 have been described: severe OCA1A with complete absence of tyrosinase activity and less severe OCA1B with residual tyrosinase activity. Here, we characterize the recombinant human t...
journal_title:Pigment cell & melanoma research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/pcmr.12546
更新日期:2017-01-01 00:00:00