Publications related to Melanin

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BCG hydrogel promotes CTSS-mediated antigen processing and presentation, thereby suppressing metastasis and prolonging survival in melanoma

Background The use of intralesional Mycobacterium bovis BCG (intralesional live BCG) for the treatment of metastatic melanoma resulted in regression of directly injected, and occasionally of distal lesions. However, intralesional-BCG is less effective in p ...

BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP2022

More Than Black or White: Melanization and Toll Share Regulatory Serine Proteases in Drosophila

Bruno Lemaitre, Mark Austin Hanson, Jan Paul Dudzic, Igor Iatsenko

The melanization response is an important defense mechanism in arthropods. This reaction is mediated by phenoloxidases (POs), which are activated by complex extracellular serine protease (SP) cascades. Here, we investigate the role of SPs in the melanizati ...

2019

The melanization reaction in Drosophila: More than black or white

Jan Paul Dudzic

The melanization reaction is a rapid and important immune mechanism in arthropods. It results in the production of melanin at the site of injury and around invading microbes. The enzymes responsible for melanogenesis are phenoloxidases (PO), which catalyze ...

EPFL2018

Micro- and nanoscale hierarchical structure of core-shell protein microgels

Giovanni Dietler, Raffaele Mezzenga, Francesco Simone Ruggeri

Protein nanofibrils were first discovered in the context of misfolding and neurodegenerative diseases but have recently been found in naturally occurring functional materials including algal adhesives, bacterial coatings, and even mammalian melanosomes. Th ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Multiple scanning electrochemical microscopy mapping of tyrosinase in micro-contact printed fruit samples on polyvinylidene fluoride membrane

Hubert Girault, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Liang Qiao, Fernando Cortes Salazar, Alexandra Bondarenko, Tzu-En Lin

Herein, we introduce three orthogonal and compatible methods for detecting tyrosinase, a key factor in fruit browning and skin disorders, with high spatial resolution by means of scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM). All methods are performed subsequ ...

Elsevier2015

Prophenoloxidase Activation Is Required for Survival to Microbial Infections in Drosophila

Bruno Lemaitre, Claudine Danielle Patricia Öngen, Olivier Binggeli

The melanization reaction is a major immune response in Arthropods and involves the rapid synthesis of melanin at the site of infection and injury. A key enzyme in the melanization process is phenoloxidase (PO), which catalyzes the oxidation of phenols to ...

Public Library of Science2014

Biomimetic Pieris rapae’s Nanostructure and Its Use as a Simple Sucrose Sensor

Philippe Renaud, David Vincent Bonzon, Rodrigo Martinez Duarte

iomimetics often provides efficient ways to create a product incorporating novel properties. Here we present the replication of the Pieris rapae butterfly optical structure. This butterfly has white wings with black spots. The white coloration is produced ...

MDPI2014

What impacts skin color in digital photos?

Stefan Winkler, Albrecht Johannes Lindner

Skin colors are important for a broad range of imaging applications to assure quality and naturalness. We discuss the impact of various metadata on skin colors in images, i.e. how does the presence of a metadata attribute influence the expected skin color ...

2014

A Subpopulation of Smooth Muscle Cells, Derived from Melanocyte-Competent Precursors, Prevents Patent Ductus Arteriosus

Friedrich Beermann

Background: Patent ductus arteriosus is a life-threatening condition frequent in premature newborns but also present in some term infants. Current mouse models of this malformation generally lead to perinatal death, not reproducing the full phenotypic spec ...

Public Library of Science2013

Photodynamic therapy for polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy

Hubert van den Bergh, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska

The first effective therapy for exudative macular degeneration (AMD) was Photodynamic Therapy (PDT). Diagnosis of the disease was to a large extent by fluorescein angiography (FA). Distinguishing between the leaky choroidal neovessels (CNV) associated with ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013

Role and regulation of the melanization reaction in Drosophila immune response

Olivier Binggeli

In arthropods, the melanization reaction consists in the rapid synthesis of melanin at the site of infection and injury. A key enzyme in the melanization process is phenoloxidase (PO), which catalyzes the oxidation of phenols to quinones that subsequently ...

EPFL2013

Coat color dilution in mice because of inactivation of the melanoma antigen MART-1

Friedrich Beermann, Iraz Toprak Aydin

Melanoma antigen recognized by T cells 1 (MART-1) is a melanoma-specific antigen, which has been thoroughly studied in the context of immunotherapy against malignant melanoma and which is found only in the pigment cell lineage. However, its exact function ...

2012

Evidence Of Adaptation From Ancestral Variation In Young Populations Of Beach Mice

Jeffrey David Jensen

To understand how organisms adapt to novel habitats, which involves both demographic and selective events, we require knowledge of the evolutionary history of populations and also selected alleles. There are still few cases in which the precise mutations ( ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

Regulation of DHICA-mediated antioxidation by dopachrome tautomerase: Implication for skin photoprotection against UVA radiation

Friedrich Beermann

Dopachrome tautomerase (Dct) is a critical enzyme in the melanogenesis pathway that isomerizes the intermediate dopachrome to 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid (DHICA) and influences the proportion of DHICA monomer incorporated into the 5,6-dihydroxyin ...

Elsevier2010

Analysis of the Pigment Cell Specific Gene MART-1/Melan-A/mlana : Expressional Regulation and Function

Iraz Toprak Aydin

Pigmentation is a complex process that provides many diverse benefits for the organism. Pigment production takes place in the pigment cell lineage in dedicated organelles called melanosomes. Several proteins are specifically recruited to melanosomes for th ...

EPFL2010

Differential roles of the pRb and Arf/p53 pathways in murine naevus and melanoma genesis

Friedrich Beermann

Summary We report on a systematic analysis of genotype-specific melanocyte UVR responses in transgenic mouse melanoma models along with tumour penetrance and comparative histopathology. pRb or p53 pathway mutations cooperated with Nras(Q61K) to transform m ...

2010

Murine Neonatal Melanocytes Exhibit a Heightened Proliferative Response to Ultraviolet Radiation and Migrate to the Epidermal Basal Layer

Friedrich Beermann

Melanocytes respond to UVR not only by producing melanin, but also by proliferating. This is essentially a protective response. We have studied the melanocyte proliferative response after a single UVR exposure to neonatal mice. At 3 days post-UVR in wild-t ...

2009

A serpin that regulates immune melanization in the respiratory system of Drosophila

Bruno Lemaitre

Epithelial tissues facing the external environment are essential to combating microbial infection. In addition to providing a physical barrier, epithelial tissues mount chemical defenses to prevent invasion of internal tissues by pathogens. Here, we descri ...

Cell Press - Elsevier2008

Drosophila Serpin-28D regulates hemolymph phenoloxidase activity and adult pigmentation

Bruno Lemaitre

In insects the enzyme phenoloxidase (PO) catalyzes melanin deposition at the wound site and around parasitoid eggs. Its proenzyme prophenoloxidase (proPO) is proteolytically cleaved to active phenoloxidase by a cascade consisting of serine proteases and in ...

2008