Graça Raposo: Melanosomes, more than skin deep
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Graça Raposo: Melanosomes, more than skin deep
T iny, membrane-bound packets of tinted protein, called melano-somes, dictate the color of human skin. Defi ciencies in melanosome production underlie pigmentation diseases, so it is important to understand how melanosomes are generated. But melanosomes are just one example of a larger family of lyso-some-related organelles, many of which are associated with pathologies when they are functional...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cell Biology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1540-8140,0021-9525
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.1975pi