Membrane glycoproteins common to vesicles and melanosomes in mouse melanoma cells.
Membrane glycoproteins common to vesicles and melanosomes in mouse melanoma cells.
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小鼠黑色素瘤细胞中囊泡和黑素体常见的膜糖蛋白。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1600-0749.1990.tb00368.x
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发表时间:
1992
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Pawelek,JM
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作者:
Orlow,SJ;Chakraborty,AK;Pawelek,JM
Since Herrmann and Boss (1945) and Lerner et al.(1949) demonstrated the particulate nature of tyrosinase, it has been recognized that melanin is synthesized in or associated with a subcellular organelle termed the melanosome. Seiji and coworkers (1963) isolated the melanosome, and delineated four stages in its maturation (I-IV). The maturation of melanosomes involves a class of coated vesicles, as suggested from electron microscopic studies (Maul, 1969; Novikoff et al., 1968; Maul and Brumbaugh, 1971). a key enzyme in melanogenesis. appeared to arise from the GEXL (Golgi-Endoplasmic reticulum-lysosomal) network and later fuse with Stage I1 melanosomes (Maul, 1969; Novikoff et al., 1968; Maul and Brumbaugh, 1971). Recently, by utilizing techniques for the purification of coated vesicles from brain (Usami et al., 1984), it has been shown that vesicles derived from murine and hamster melanoma cells are not only highly enriched for tyrosinase activity over other membranous fractions from those cells, but also contain high levels of dopachrome conversion factor and gammaglutamyl transferase (Chakraborty et al., 1989). Both of these enzymes are believed to be important regulatory factors in the synthesis of both euand pheomelanin. In addition, two melanogenic precursors, dihydroxyindole and dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid, have been demonstrated to be present in the vesicular fraction (Hatta et al., 1988). Taken together, such data suggest a key role for coated vesicles in initiating melanogenesis in the immature melanosomes with which they are believed to fuse. This model predicts that certain proteins present in coated vesicles are" donated" to melanosomes upon vesicular fusion with those organelles. The Cloudman murine melanoma cell line provides an excellent system for studying this process: In culture, untreated cells are amelanotic and contain only Stage 1-11 melanosomes (Pawelek et al., 1973). No reaction product is seen upon histochemical examination for tyrosinase activity, nor can such activity be demonstrated in cell extracts. Within hours of treat ent with melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH)', however, tyrosinase activity within the