... melanocytes and in a single melanoma line (SKMEL-188; representative panelFig. 1A). The l ower band detected in keratinocytes, squa-mous cell carcinoma and melanoma cells (Fig. 1A, lanes 2,3, ... in Genomics and Bioinformatics (to A.S.), UTHSC, and NIH grants1R01-AR047079-0 1A2 (to A.S.) and RR017854. W e thank ProfessorCedric Shackelton, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute,Oakland, ... Institute,Oakland, CA, USA for performing G C/MS an alyses, and Pr ofessorWalter Miller, U niversity o f C alifornia, San Francisco for the gift of N-62 StAR protein and StAR protei n antiserum. The ex...