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- W1036685284 abstract "This chapter provides a concise, yet comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the field of melanins, with particular emphasis on the chemical, physical, and biosynthetic aspects of these important and ubiquitous pigments. Tyrosinase is known to catalyze the biosynthesis of not only black but also brown, yellow, reddish brown, and carrot-red pigments. Melanin pigmentation is mainly determined by two chemically distinct but biogenetically related types of pigments. One of them is the dark, insoluble eumelanins that are produced from the tyrosinase-catalyzed oxidation of tyrosine, and the other is the alkalisoluble phaeomelanins that originate from an altered eumelanin pathway through the intervention of cysteine. Evidence suggests that certain heavy metal ions, commonly found in pigmented tissues, play an important role in melanogenesis. Of particular interest is the finding that copper and, to a lesser degree, zinc, cobalt, and iron have the ability to catalyze the rearrangement of dopachrome to 5,6-dihydroxyindole(s), which is a key regulatory step in the biosynthesis of eumelanins." @default.
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