Here we report the purification and characterization of one of these down-regulatory factors, the cytokine, oncostatin M (OSM), which transmits its signal via the gp130 cell surface receptor, resulting in the selective down-modulation of the melanocyte lineage antigens: Melan-A/MART-1, gp100, tyrosinase, tyrosinase-related proteins 1 and 2, and the M isoform of microphthalmia transcription factor.
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Microphthalmos