A review focuses on the pigments derived biogenetically from tyrosine and produced intracellularly within specialized cells. Melanin pigments, eumelanins and pheomelanins, can be described today as collections of mol. species with different chem. structures and properties, thus encompassing diverse degrees of chem. heterogeneity. This mol. heterogeneity can be ascribed to a no. of factors, including the range of different monomer units; the different mdes of inter-unit coupling; differences in mol. wt.; the redox state; and the extent and mode of aggregation

Structure of melanins

D'Ischia M.;
2011

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A review focuses on the pigments derived biogenetically from tyrosine and produced intracellularly within specialized cells. Melanin pigments, eumelanins and pheomelanins, can be described today as collections of mol. species with different chem. structures and properties, thus encompassing diverse degrees of chem. heterogeneity. This mol. heterogeneity can be ascribed to a no. of factors, including the range of different monomer units; the different mdes of inter-unit coupling; differences in mol. wt.; the redox state; and the extent and mode of aggregation
2011
Melanins and Melanosomes
Wiley-Blackwell
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