The predominant defect in dilute melanocytes is in melanosome distribution and not cell shape, supporting a role for myosin V in melanosome transport
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility
- Vol. 18 (5) , 517-527
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1018659117569
Abstract
Mice with mutations at the dilute locus, which encodes the heavy chain of a type V unconventional myosin, exhibit a reduction in coat colour intensity. This defect is thought to be caused by the...Keywords
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