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SUBMITTER: Levy F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1073660 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lévy Frédéric F Muehlethaler Katja K Salvi Suzanne S Peitrequin Anne-Lise AL Lindholm Cecilia K CK Cerottini Jean-Charles JC Rimoldi Donata D
Molecular biology of the cell 20050209 4
The production of pigment by melanocytic cells of the skin involves a series of enzymatic reactions that take place in specialized organelles called melanosomes. Melan-A/MART-1 is a melanocytic transmembrane protein with no enzymatic activity that accumulates in vesicles at the trans side of the Golgi and in melanosomes. We show here that, in melanoma cells, Melan-A associates with two homologous to E6-AP C-terminus (HECT)-E3 ubiquitin ligases, NEDD4 and Itch, and is ubiquitylated. Both NEDD4 an ...[more]