Publication Date:
2007-10-20
Description:
Genetic analysis of mammalian color variation has provided fundamental insight into human biology and disease. In most vertebrates, two key genes, Agouti and Melanocortin 1 receptor (Mc1r), encode a ligand-receptor system that controls pigment type-switching, but in domestic dogs, a third gene is implicated, the K locus, whose genetic characteristics predict a previously unrecognized component of the melanocortin pathway. We identify the K locus as beta-defensin 103 (CBD103) and show that its protein product binds with high affinity to the Mc1r and has a simple and strong effect on pigment type-switching in domestic dogs and transgenic mice. These results expand the functional role of beta-defensins, a protein family previously implicated in innate immunity, and identify an additional class of ligands for signaling through melanocortin receptors.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2906624/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2906624/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Candille, Sophie I -- Kaelin, Christopher B -- Cattanach, Bruce M -- Yu, Bin -- Thompson, Darren A -- Nix, Matthew A -- Kerns, Julie A -- Schmutz, Sheila M -- Millhauser, Glenn L -- Barsh, Gregory S -- R01 DK064265/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK064265-08/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2007 Nov 30;318(5855):1418-23. Epub 2007 Oct 18.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Departments of Genetics and Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17947548" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Agouti Signaling Protein/genetics/metabolism
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Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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Cell Line
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Chromosome Mapping
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Dogs/*genetics/metabolism
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Female
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Hair Color/*genetics
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Haplotypes
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Humans
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Keratinocytes/metabolism
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Male
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Mice
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Mice, Transgenic
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Mutation
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Polymorphism, Genetic
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Receptor, Melanocortin, Type 1/*metabolism
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Sequence Deletion
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Signal Transduction
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Skin/metabolism
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beta-Defensins/chemistry/*genetics/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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