Affiliation:
1. Preeminent Medical Photonics Education & Research Center Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu Shizuoka Japan
2. Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science Nagoya University Nagoya Japan
Abstract
AbstractIn whitish parts of teleost skin, the coloration is attributed to a light scattering phenomenon within light‐reflecting chromatophores, namely leucophores and iridophores, which contain high refractive index materials in their cytoplasmic organelles, leucosomes and light‐reflecting platelets, respectively. Previous chemical examinations revealed that guanine is a major constituent of the materials in the platelets of the iridophores, while, in leucophores, the detailed chemical nature of the materials contained in the leucosomes has not been reported. Here, using liquid chromatography‐tandem mass spectroscopy, we investigated the chemical features of materials eluted from scales, larvae, and single chromatophores of the medaka. Results of the liquid chromatography‐tandem mass spectroscopy suggested that uric acid is a major constituent of the high refractive index materials in medaka leucophores and is a unique marker to investigate the presence of leucophores in the fish. The whitish appearance of the medaka leucophores may be attributed to the light‐scattering phenomenon in leucosomes, which contain highly concentrated uric acid.
Subject
Dermatology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,Oncology
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