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Moreover, the murine homolog shows six putative transmembrane domains, as observed for the human gene, indicating that the overall structure of the two proteins is conserved. The genomic organization is also conserved between the two species across the entire coding region with splice sites located in the same positions. Like its human counterpart, the expression pattern of Oa1, apart from the eye, is restricted to the epidermal melanocyte lineage. A transcript of approximately 1.8 kb was readily detected by this probe in 5 out of 5 murine melanocyte lines, 4 out of 4 murine melanoblast lines, 1 out of 2 murine melanoma lines, and 1 out of 2 human melanoma lines tested, but it was not detected in 2 out of 2 lines of a developmentally earlier normal cell type, melanoblast precursor cells, suggesting that the gene is transcriptionally activated in epidermal melanocytes at the same stage as most other tested melanosomal proteins. 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