melanosome
Sign in to savethumb|7× speed timelapse video of fish melanophores responding to 200 uM adrenaline; the melanosomes retreat to the center of the star-shaped melanophore cells. thumb|Fish and frog melanophores are cells that can change colour by dispersing or aggregating pigment-containing melanosomes.
Research
4,372 papers- Melanosome transport and regulation in development and disease.Pharmacology & therapeutics · 2021
- Melanosome Transport and Processing in Skin Pigmentation: Mechanisms and Targets for Pigmentation Modulation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
- Senescent melanocytes driven by glycolytic changes are characterized by melanosome transport dysfunction.Theranostics · 2023
- Melanosome Biogenesis in the Pigmentation of Mammalian Skin.Integrative and comparative biology · 2021
- SNARE dynamics during melanosome maturation.Biochemical Society transactions · 2018
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Structure
- Synthesis of melanin
- Pseudopodia and tanning
- In animals
- In fossils
- Templating
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thumb|7× speed timelapse video of fish melanophores responding to 200 uM adrenaline; the melanosomes retreat to the center of the star-shaped melanophore cells. thumb|Fish and frog melanophores are cells that can change colour by dispersing or aggregating pigment-containing melanosomes.
A melanosome is an organelle found in animal cells and is the site for synthesis, storage and transport of melanin, the most common light-absorbing pigment found in the animal kingdom. Melanosomes are responsible for color and photoprotection in animal cells and tissues.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “melanosome” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.