Tuning the surface chemistry of melanin-mimetic polydopamine nanoparticles drastically enhances their accumulation into excised human skin

S Sunoqrot, NN Mahmoud, LH Ibrahim… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2020 - ACS Publications
… the role of PDA NP surface chemistry in modulating their skin … showed a strong dependence
on surface chemistry, with anionic (… chemistry in enhancing the skin accumulation of melanin-…

Unraveling the structure and function of melanin through synthesis

W Cao, X Zhou, NC McCallum, Z Hu… - … American Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
… In this Perspective we will give an overview of synthetic efforts for each melanin, starting
from what is known of the natural melanins, with an eye to the chemistry of these systems, …

Melanin biopolymers: Tailoring chemical complexity for materials design

M d'Ischia, A Napolitano, A Pezzella… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… It aims at: a) critically examining chemical disorder in the expanding range of melanin-type …
melanin complexity into improved design rules that may guide future developments in melanin

[PDF][PDF] Biomedical overview of melanin. 1. Updating melanin biology and chemistry, physico-chemical properties, melanoma tumors, and photothermal therapy

A Blázquez-Castro, JC Stockert - Biocell, 2021 - cdn.techscience.cn
… Regarding chemical types of melanin (referred as catechol-melanins and indolemelanins)
(… Melanin refers to the chemical name of the pigment, whereas melanosome is the specific …

Melanoma, melanin, and melanogenesis: The Yin and Yang relationship

RM Slominski, T Sarna, PM Płonka, C Raman… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… Arguably, one of the most distinct chemical properties of melanin is its ability to participate
in redox reactions. This is consistent with the composition of melanin, which contains …

The role of melanin in the biology and ecology of nematophagous Fungi

DF Freitas, IM da Rocha, O Vieira-da-Motta… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - Springer
… Thus, this review presents an overview of the different types of melanin, with an emphasis …
is its chemical structure, which can be explained by the simple fact that melanin is practically …

Bioinspired chemoenzymatic route to artificial melanin for hair pigmentation

C Battistella, NC McCallum, B Vanthournout… - Chemistry of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
… In humans, melanin … of melanin is polydopamine, and its successful deposition on human
hair was recently reported. Herein, we describe an enzymatic approach to synthetic melanin for …

Melanin of fungi: From classification to application

R Liu, X Meng, C Mo, X Wei, A Ma - World Journal of Microbiology and …, 2022 - Springer
… of fungal melanin in water, acids … chemical modification methods of fungal melanin are
summarized to increase its solubility and expand the application fields. Although fungal melanin

Melanin, the what, the why and the how: An introductory review for materials scientists interested in flexible and versatile polymers

AB Mostert - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
… the above physico-chemical properties of melanin have been employed, which may serve
as inspiration to the potential researcher to develop their own applications for melanin as a …

Decoding the evolution of melanin in vertebrates

ME McNamara, V Rossi, TS Slater, CS Rogers… - Trends in ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
chemistry of vertebrate melanosomes are linked to the evolution of endothermy. These shifts
in melanin … Tissue-specific and taxonomic trends in melanin chemistry support evidence for …