UV-induced somatic mutations elicit a functional T cell response in the YUMMER1.7 mouse melanoma model.

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：:Monobenzone is a 4-substituted phenol that can induce vitiligo and antimelanoma immunity. We investigated the influence of the chemical structure on the biological activity of a series of structurally related 4-substituted phenols. All phenols inhibited cellular melanin synthesis, and eight of ten phenols inhibited ty...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Kammeyer A,Willemsen KJ,Ouwerkerk W,Bakker WJ,Ratsma D,Pronk SD,Smit NPM,Luiten RM

更新日期：2019-07-01 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：:The advent of immune checkpoint blockers and targeted therapies has changed the outcome of melanoma. However, many patients experience relapses, emphasizing the need for predictive and prognostic biomarkers. We developed a strategy based on plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) loaded with melanoma tumor antigens that a...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Charles J,Chaperot L,Revol B,Baudin M,Mouret S,Hamon A,Leccia MT,Plumas J,Aspord C

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copy number variations (CNVs) have been shown to contribute substantially to disease susceptibility in several inherited diseases including cancer. We conducted a genome-wide search for CNVs in blood-derived DNA from 79 individuals (62 melanoma patients and 17 spouse controls) of 30 high-risk melanoma-prone families w...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Yang XR,Brown K,Landi MT,Ghiorzo P,Badenas C,Xu M,Hayward NK,Calista D,Landi G,Bruno W,Bianchi-Scarrà G,Aguilera P,Puig S,Goldstein AM,Tucker MA

更新日期：2012-03-01 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

authors： Choi J,Landrette SF,Wang T,Evans P,Bacchiocchi A,Bjornson R,Cheng E,Stiegler AL,Gathiaka S,Acevedo O,Boggon TJ,Krauthammer M,Halaban R,Xu T

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuregulin (NRG) signaling through the receptor tyrosine kinase, ERBB3, is required for embryonic development, and dysregulated signaling has been associated with cancer progression. Here, we show that NRG1/ERBB3 signaling inhibits melanocyte (MC) maturation and promotes undifferentiated, migratory and proliferative c...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Buac K,Xu M,Cronin J,Weeraratna AT,Hewitt SM,Pavan WJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hair pigmentation is one of the most conspicuous phenotypes in humans. Melanocytes produce two distinct types of melanin pigment: brown to black, indolic eumelanin and yellow to reddish brown, sulfur-containing pheomelanin. Biochemically, the precursor tyrosine and the key enzyme tyrosinase and the tyrosinase-related ...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Ito S,Wakamatsu K

更新日期：2011-02-01 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 Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway is involved in the melanocyte differentiation and melanoma development. However, the effect of beta-catenin for dendrite formation has not been clearly elucidated yet in normal human epidermal melanocytes (NHEM). To investigate the effect of beta-catenin, we transduced NHEM with ...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Kim JH,Sohn KC,Choi TY,Kim MY,Ando H,Choi SJ,Kim S,Lee YH,Lee JH,Kim CD,Yoon TJ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two biological processes regulate light-induced skin colour change. A fast 'physiological pigmentation change' (i.e. circadian variations or camouflage) involves alterations in the distribution of pigment containing granules in the cytoplasm of chromatophores, while a slower 'morphological pigmentation change' (i.e. s...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Bertolesi GE,Hehr CL,Munn H,McFarlane S

更新日期：2016-11-01 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

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

authors： Visser M,Kayser M,Grosveld F,Palstra RJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 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

authors： Montoliu L,Grønskov K,Wei AH,Martínez-García M,Fernández A,Arveiler B,Morice-Picard F,Riazuddin S,Suzuki T,Ahmed ZM,Rosenberg T,Li W

更新日期：2014-01-01 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

authors： Ferguson J,Wilcock DJ,McEntegart S,Badrock AP,Levesque M,Dummer R,Wellbrock C,Smith MP

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver is the organ usually affected by metastatic uveal melanoma (MUM). Current treatments are almost always ineffective and mortality remains high. In this study, copy number variations (CNVs) were identified in 12 metastatic and five matched primary UMs (PUMs). Our data revealed a wide spectrum of genetic altera...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： McCarthy C,Kalirai H,Lake SL,Dodson A,Damato BE,Coupland SE

更新日期：2016-01-01 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

authors： Lin CB,Chen N,Scarpa R,Guan F,Babiarz-Magee L,Liebel F,Li WH,Kizoulis M,Shapiro S,Seiberg M

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The novel mutation named ru2(d) /Hps5(ru2-d) , characterized by light-colored coats and ruby-eyes, prohibits differentiation of melanocytes by inhibiting tyrosinase (Tyr) activity, expression of Tyr, Tyr-related protein 1 (Tyrp1), Tyrp2, and Kit. However, it is not known whether the ru2(d) allele affects pheomelanin s...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Hirobe T,Ito S,Wakamatsu K

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural crest is a transient structure in vertebrate embryos that generates multiple neural and mesenchymal cell types as well as melanocytes. Melanocytes in the skin either derive directly from neural crest cells populating the skin via a dorsolateral migratory pathway or arise by detaching from nerves innervating...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Sommer L

更新日期：2011-06-01 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

authors： Harris ML,Pavan WJ

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the contributions of Tyrp1 and Gpnmb to the iris transillumination defect (TID) in five age cohorts of BXD mice. Using systems genetics, we also evaluated the role of other known pigmentation genes (PGs). Mapping studies indicate that Tyrp1 contributes to the phenotype at all ages, yet the TID maps to ...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Swaminathan S,Lu H,Williams RW,Lu L,Jablonski MM

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zebrafish respond to visual stimuli to adapt their body colour to the background. If, rather than being a simple on/off reaction to visual stimulation, the colour change involves cognitive and memory-related processes, training fish with cyclical changes of the background would be expected to increase its ability to c...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Hatamoto K,Shingyoji C

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:Several studies observed that adiponectin, an important adipokine that improves glucose metabolism by regulating AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) signaling, is dermatologically beneficial. In our recent microarray data, we found that adiponectin expression was lower in lesional skin than in non-lesional skin of mel...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Bang S,Won KH,Moon HR,Yoo H,Hong A,Song Y,Chang SE

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:In response to the dynamic intra-tumor microenvironment, melanoma cells adopt distinct phenotypic states associated with differential expression of the microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF). The response to hypoxia is driven by hypoxia-inducible transcription factors (HIFs) that reprogram metabolism an...

journal_title：Pigment cell & melanoma research

authors： Louphrasitthiphol P,Ledaki I,Chauhan J,Falletta P,Siddaway R,Buffa FM,Mole DR,Soga T,Goding CR

更新日期：2019-11-01 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

authors： Van Raamsdonk CD,Barsh GS,Wakamatsu K,Ito S

更新日期：2009-12-01 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

authors： Liu JJ,Fisher DE

更新日期：2010-12-01 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 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