Proprotein convertase cleavage liberates a fibrillogenic fragment of a resident glycoprotein to initiate melanosome biogenesis.

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Published in J Cell Biol on May 05, 2003

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Joanne F Berson1, Alexander C Theos, Dawn C Harper, Danielle Tenza, Graça Raposo, Michael S Marks

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1: Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6082, USA.

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