Role of Rab family GTPases and their effectors in melanosomal logistics

TBC proteins: GAPs for mammalian small GTPase Rab?

(2011) Mitsunori Fukuda   BIOSCIENCE REPORTS

EPI64 Protein Functions as a Physiological GTPase-activating Protein for Rab27 Protein and Regulates Amylase Release in Rat Parotid Acinar Cells

(2011) Akane Imai et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

RUTBC1 Protein, a Rab9A Effector That Activates GTP Hydrolysis by Rab32 and Rab33B Proteins

(2011) Ryan M. Nottingham et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The Rab21-GEF activity of Varp, but not its Rab32/38 effector function, is required for dendrite formation in melanocytes

(2011) Norihiko Ohbayashi et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

The Recycling Endosome Protein Rab17 Regulates Melanocytic Filopodia Formation and Melanosome Trafficking

(2011) Kimberley A. Beaumont et al.   TRAFFIC

Thousands of Rab GTPases for the Cell Biologist

(2011) Yoan Diekmann et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Linking molecular motors to membrane cargo

(2010) Anna Akhmanova et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Melanin transfer in human skin cells is mediated by filopodia—a model for homotypic and heterotypic lysosome-related organelle transfer

(2010) Suman K. Singh et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Structure-Function Analysis of VPS9-Ankyrin-repeat Protein (Varp) in the Trafficking of Tyrosinase-related Protein 1 in Melanocytes

(2010) Kanako Tamura et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Assembly of the Biogenesis of Lysosome-related Organelles Complex-3 (BLOC-3) and Its Interaction with Rab9

(2010) Daniel P. Kloer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

AP-3-dependent trafficking and disease: the first decade

(2009) Esteban C Dell’Angelica   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Role of Varp, a Rab21 exchange factor and TI-VAMP/VAMP7 partner, in neurite growth

(2009) Andrea Burgo et al.   EMBO REPORTS

Genetic modifiers of abnormal organelle biogenesis in a Drosophila model of BLOC-1 deficiency

(2009) Verónica T. Cheli et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Melanoregulin (MREG) Modulates Lysosome Function in Pigment Epithelial Cells

(2009) Monika Damek-Poprawa et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

AP-1 and KIF13A coordinate endosomal sorting and positioning during melanosome biogenesis

(2009) Cédric Delevoye et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Varp Is a Novel Rab32/38-binding Protein That Regulates Tyrp1 Trafficking in Melanocytes

(2009) Kanako Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Rab GTPases as coordinators of vesicle traffic

(2009) Harald Stenmark   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Kinesin superfamily motor proteins and intracellular transport

(2009) Nobutaka Hirokawa et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Regulators of the cytoplasmic dynein motor

(2009) Julia R. Kardon et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Plasma membrane expansion: a neuron's Herculean task

(2009) Karl H. Pfenninger   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Griscelli syndrome: a model system to study vesicular trafficking

(2009) Mireille Van Gele et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

Membrane traffic in the secretory pathway

(2008) M. Fukuda   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Rab3GEP Is the Non-redundant Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factor for Rab27a in Melanocytes

(2008) Ana C. Figueiredo et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Large Scale Screening for Novel Rab Effectors Reveals Unexpected Broad Rab Binding Specificity

(2008) Mitsunori Fukuda et al.   MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS

Structural Basis for the Exclusive Specificity of Slac2-a/Melanophilin for the Rab27 GTPases

(2008) Mutsuko Kukimoto-Niino et al.   STRUCTURE

Rab7 Regulates Maturation of Melanosomal Matrix Protein gp100/Pmel17/Silv

(2007) Akinori Kawakami et al.   JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY