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Extraction and Purification of Melanin from Different Sources and Tissues

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Melanins are phenolic biopolymers synthesised by most of the living organism mainly for photoprotection or surviving in harsh conditions. Melanin is localised in different areas or complexed with different other biomolecules when observed from animals to microbes. This makes the melanin extraction procedure different in animal, plant and microbial tissues. Basically, the alkali-acid extraction is used in most protocols of which slight variations are there depending on the tissue used. This review will try to compile melanin extraction procedures from different cells and tissues ranging from animals to bacteria.

Source: Exon.

DOI: 10.69936/kn9j5p95

Author: Noble K Kurian

Institutions: Atmiya University, B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology

Language: English

Topic: melanin and skin pigmentation

Subfield: Cell Biology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4403575934

FWCI: 0.946

Cites: 14

Cited by: 6

Related to: 10