Chelsey D Kline   Madeleine Anderson   John W Bassett   Gail Kent   Rachel Berryman   Matthew Honeggar   Shosuke Ito   Kazumasa Wakamatsu   Arup K Indra   Philip J Moos   Sancy A Leachman   Pamela B Cassidy   
Cancers 14(20) 2022年10月
TR1 and other selenoproteins have paradoxical effects in melanocytes and melanomas. Increasing selenoprotein activity with supplemental selenium in a mouse model of UV-induced melanoma prevents oxidative damage to melanocytes and delays melanoma t...
Journal of Investigative Dermatology 143(2) 317-327 2022年9月
Palmitoylation is a lipid modification involving the attachment of palmitic acid to a cysteine residue, thereby affecting protein function. We investigated the effect of palmitoylation of tyrosinase, the rate-limiting enzyme in melanin synthesis, ...
Emily E. Puckett   Isis S. Davis   Dawn C. Harper   Kazumasa Wakamatsu   Gopal Battu   Jerrold L. Belant   Dean E. Beyer, Jr.   Colin Carpenter   Anthony P. Crupi   Maria Davidson   Christopher S. DePerno   Nicholas Forman   Nicholas L. Fowler   David L. Garshelis   Nicholas Gould   Kerry Gunther   Mark Haroldson   Shosuke Ito   David Kocka   Carl Lackey   Ryan Leahy   Caitlin Lee-Roney   Tania Lewis   Ashley Lutto   Kelly McGowan   Colleen Olfenbuttel   Mike Orlando   Alexander Platt   Matthew D. Pollard   Megan Ramaker   Heather Reich   Jaime L. Sajecki   Stephanie K. Sell   Jennifer Strules   Seth Thompson   Frank van Manen   Craig Whitman   Ryan Williamson   Frederic Winslow   Christopher B. Kaelin   Michael S. Marks   Gregory S. Barsh   
Current Biology 33(1) 86-97 2022年8月
Color variation is a frequent evolutionary substrate for camouflage in small mammals, but the underlying genetics and evolutionary forces that drive color variation in natural populations of large mammals are mostly unexplained. The American black...
Sandra Del Bino   Shosuke Ito   Juliette Sok   Kazumasa Wakamatsu   
Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research 35(6) 622-626 2022年8月
Human skin contains two distinct components: brown to black, insoluble eumelanin and light colored, alkaline-soluble pheomelanin. Eumelanin consists of 5,6-dihydroxyindole (DHI) and 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid (DHICA) moieties, while phe...
International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23(12) 2022年6月
A major advance in drug discovery and targeted therapy directed at cancer cells may be achieved by the exploitation and immunomodulation of their unique biological properties. This review summarizes our efforts to develop novel chemo-thermo-immuno...
Okamura, K   Araki, Y   Abe, Y   Wakamatsu, K   Tamiya, G   Seishima, M   Umetsu, T   Kato, A   Kawaguchi, M   Hayashi, M   Hozomi, Y   Suzuki, T   
23rd International Pigment Cell Conference. 2017年8月27日