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Shedding light on melanins within in situ human eye melanocytes using 2-photon microscopy profiling techniques. [PDF]

, 2019
Choroidal melanocytes (HCMs) are melanin-producing cells in the vascular uvea of the human eye (iris, ciliary body and choroid). These cranial neural crest-derived cells migrate to populate a mesodermal microenvironment, and display cellular functions ...
Cherepanoff, Svetlana, Conway, Robert Max, Gratton, Enrico, Macmillan, Alexander, Madigan, Michele C, Sitiwin, Ephrem, Whan, Renee   +6 more
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Towards Structure-Property-Function Relationships for Eumelanin

, 2005
We discuss recent progress towards the establishment of important structure-property-function relationships in eumelanins - key functional bio-macromolecular systems responsible for photo-protection and immune response in humans, and implicated in the ...
Ben J. Powell, Bolivar-Marinez, Boulton, Burkhart, Clancy, Crippa, da Silva, Damjanovic, Evan G. Moore, Forest, Gallas, Galvao, Hanyz, Il'ichev, Jastrzebska, Jennifer Riesz, Jung, Kipp, Kozikowski, Lakowicz, Longuet-Higgins, Mark R. Pederson, McGinnes, Meredith, Meredith, Nighswander-Rempel, Nighswander-Rempel, Nofsinger, Nofsinger, Paul Meredith, Pederson, Powell, Powell, Pullman, Richmond, Rosei, Sarna, Stark, Stark, Stark, Stephen P. Nighswander-Rempel, Teuchner, Tran, Wolbarsht, Zajac, Zhang, Zucca   +46 more
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Promelanogenic Effects by an Annurca Apple-Based Natural Formulation in Human Primary Melanocytes

Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology, 2021
Maria Grazia Ferraro,1 Marialuisa Piccolo,1 Alessandro Pezzella,2 Fabrizia Guerra,1 Francesco Maione,1 Gian Carlo Tenore,1 Rita Santamaria,1 Carlo Irace,1 Ettore Novellino1 1Department of Pharmacy, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples ...
Ferraro MG, Piccolo M, Pezzella A, Guerra F, Maione F, Tenore GC, Santamaria R, Irace C, Novellino E   +8 more
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Comparative Biophysical and Ultrastructural Analysis of Melanins Produced by Clinical Strains of Different Species From the Trichosporonaceae Family

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
Melanin is one of the most studied virulence factors in pathogenic fungi. This pigment protects them from a series of both environmental and host stressors.
Iara Bastos de Andrade, Iara Bastos de Andrade, Glauber Ribeiro de Sousa Araújo, Fábio Brito-Santos, Maria Helena Galdino Figueiredo-Carvalho, Rosely Maria Zancopé-Oliveira, Susana Frases, Susana Frases, Rodrigo Almeida-Paes, Rodrigo Almeida-Paes   +9 more
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Antioxidative Properties of Melanins and Ommochromes from Black Soldier Fly Hermetia illucens

Biomolecules, 2019
A comparative study of melanin and ommochrome-containing samples, isolated from the black soldier fly (BSF) by enzymatic hydrolysis, alkaline and acid alcohol extraction or by acid hydrolysis, was carried out.
Nina Ushakova, Alexander Dontsov, Natalia Sakina, Alexander Bastrakov, Mikhail Ostrovsky   +4 more
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Raman Characterization of Fungal DHN and DOPA Melanin Biosynthesis Pathways

Journal of Fungi, 2021
Fungal melanins represent a resource for important breakthroughs in industry and medicine, but the characterization of their composition, synthesis, and structure is not well understood.
Benjamin D. Strycker, Zehua Han, Aysan Bahari, Tuyetnhu Pham, Xiaorong Lin, Brian D. Shaw, Alexei V. Sokolov, Marlan O. Scully   +7 more
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Synthetic Porous Melanin

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021
Commonly known as a skin pigment, melanin has a vital role in UV radiation protection, primarily acting as a radical scavenger. However, a lesser known natural property of melanin, observed in some melanized organisms, is its capacity to adsorb toxins, including metals and organic molecules.
Zofia E. Siwicka, Florencia A. Son, Claudia Battistella, Martin H. Moore, Joanna Korpanty, Naneki C. McCallum, Zheng Wang, Brandy J. Johnson, Omar K. Farha, Nathan C. Gianneschi   +9 more
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Polymeric peptide pigments with sequence-encoded properties [PDF]

, 2017
Melanins are a family of heterogeneous polymeric pigments that provide ultraviolet (UV) light protection, structural support, coloration, and free radical scavenging.
Abzalimov, Rinat R., Bettinger, Christopher J., Frederix, Pim W. J. M., Greenbaum, Steven G., Hekstra, Doeke R., Hu, Chunhua, Humagain, Sunita, Lampel, Ayala, Li, Tai-De, McPhee, Scott A., Park, Hang-Ah, Scott, Gary G., Tuttle, Tell, Ulijn, Rein V., Yoo, Barney   +14 more
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GENES DETERMINING THE SYNTHESIS OF LAVONOID AND MELANIN PIGMENTS IN BARLEY

Вавиловский журнал генетики и селекции, 2018
In addition to the green color caused by chlorophyll, grain and vegetative organs of barley can be colored by compounds of phenolic nature, such as melanins and lavonoids, which include anthocyanins, proanthocyanidins. Due to the wide biological activity
O. Yu. Shoeva, K. V. Strygina, E. K. Khlestkina   +2 more
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The Fungal Cell Wall : Structure, Biosynthesis, and Function [PDF]

, 2017
N.G. is funded by the Wellcome Trust via a senior investigator award and a strategic award and by the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology. C.M. acknowledges the support of the Wellcome Trust and the MRC. N.G. and C.M.
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