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Kangning Xu

Osaka Metropolitan University

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Staurosporine drives non-canonical melanocyte maturation by coupling β-catenin signaling to actin-dependent dendrite remodeling

Kangning Xu, Lingli Yang, Sylvia Lai, Fei Yang, Yasutaka Kuroda, Daisuke Tsuruta, Ichiro Katayama

This paper shows that staurosporine induces non-canonical melanocyte maturation by enhancing melanogenesis and dendritic remodeling, promoting pigmentation in vitro and in vivo.

Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research · Aug 13, 2026Peer-reviewedCell Biology