Title : Human tyrosinase related protein-1 (TRP-1) does not function as a DHICA oxidase activity in contrast to murine TRP-1.

Pub. Date : 1998 Aug

PMID : 9758418






1 Functional Relationships(s)
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1 In murine melanocytes, TRP-1 functions as a 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid [DHICA] oxidase during the biosynthetic conversion of tyrosine to eumelanin and mutations affecting TRP-1 result in the synthesis of brown rather than black pelage coloration. eumelanin tyrosinase-related protein 1 Mus musculus