• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제20권11호
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• pp.1513-1520
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• 2010

A bacterium capable of producing melanin pigment in the presence of L-tyrosine was isolated from a crop field soil sample and identified as Klebsiella sp. GSK based on morphological, biochemical, and 16S rDNA sequencing. The polymerization of this pigment occurs outside the cell wall, which has a granular structure as melanin ghosts. Chemical characterization of the pigment particles showed then to be acid resistant, alkali soluble, and insoluble in most of the organic solvents and water. The pigment got bleached when subjected to the action of oxidants as well as reductants. This pigment was precipitated with $FeCl_3$, ammoniacal silver nitrate, and potassium ferricynide. The pigment showed high absorbance in the UV region and decreased absorbance when shifted towards the visible region. The melanin pigment was further charecterized by FT-IR and EPR spectroscopies. A key enzyme, 4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid hydroxylase, that catalyzes the formation of melanin pigment by hydroxylation of L-tyrosine was detected in this bacterium. Inhibition studies with specific inhibitors, kojic acid and KCN, proved that melanin is synthesized by the DOPA-melanin pathway.

• Applied Microscopy
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• 제51권
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• pp.14.1-14.11
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• 2021

Melanin has been a widely researched pigment by scientists for decades as it is undoubtedly the most ubiquitous and ancient pigment found in nature. Melanin plays very signifcant roles in structural plumage colors in birds: it has visible light-absorbing capabilities, and nanoscale structures can be formed by self-assembling melanin granules. Herein, we review recent progress on melanin-based structural coloration research. We hope that this review will provide current understanding of melanin's structural and optical properties, natural coloration mechanisms, and biomimetic methods to implement artifcial melanin-based structural colors.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.1825-1838
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• 2016

The detection of skin pigment is crucial in the diagnosis of skin diseases and in the evaluation of medical cosmetics and hairdressing. Accuracy in the detection is a basis for the prompt cure of skin diseases. This study presents a method to recognize and measure human skin pigment using Hemoglobin-Melanin (HM) coordinate. The proposed method extracts the skin area through a Gaussian skin-color model estimated from statistical analysis and decomposes the skin area into two pigments of hemoglobin and melanin using an Independent Component Analysis (ICA) algorithm. Then, we divide the two-dimensional (2D) HM coordinate into rectangular bins and compute the location histograms of hemoglobin and melanin for all the bins. We label the skin pigment of hemoglobin, melanin, and normal skin on all bins according to the Bayesian classifier. These bin-based HM projective histograms can quantify the skin pigment and compute the standard deviation on the total quantification of skin pigments surrounding normal skin. We tested our scheme using images taken under different illumination conditions. Several cosmetic coverings were used to test the performance of the proposed method. The experimental results show that the proposed method can detect skin pigments with more accuracy and evaluate cosmetic covering effects more effectively than conventional methods.

• 산업식품공학
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.282-288
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• 2009

A dark brownish pigment from fruit body of Auricularia auricula was isolated and characterized in this report. The pigment was obtained with a yield of 0.61%(w/w) by alkaline extraction and subsequent purification steps. It showed the positive $FeCl_3$ test which was the indication of phenolic compounds. A synthetic melanin showed a similar spectrometric characteristics to the pigment extract regarding a characteristic UV absorption between 200-250 nm and infrared absorptions profiles in the finger print region including absorption peaks at 1701 and 1624 $cm^{-1}$. Its element analysis indicated that its atomic copmposition is close to that of DOPA melanin (eumelanin). With the result of its antioxidant activity in the TNBT (5-thio-2-nitrobenzoic acid) assay, we concluded that the dark brownish pigment from A. auricula is a melanin-like compound having a powerful antioxidative activity.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.60-69
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• 2013

Purified melanin pigment from Klebsiella sp. GSK was characterized by thermogravimetric, differential thermal, X-ray diffraction and elemental analysis. This melanin pigment is structurally amorphous in nature. It is thermally stable up to $300^{\circ}C$ and emits a strong exothermic peak at $700^{\circ}C$. Its carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen composition is 47.9%, 6.9% and 12.0%, respectively. It was used to scavenge metal ions and free radicals. After immobilizing the pigment and using it to adsorb copper and lead ions, the metal ion adsorption capacity was evaluated by atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) and the identity of melanin functional groups involved in the binding of metal ions was determined by Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. Batch adsorption studies showed that 169 mg/g of copper and 280 mg/g of lead were adsorbed onto melanin-alginate beads. The metal ion adsorption capacity of the melanin-alginate beads was relatively significant compared to alginate beads. The metal ion desorption capacity of HCl was greater (81.5% and 99% for copper and lead, respectively) than that of EDTA (80% and 71% for copper and lead, respectively). The ability of the melanin pigment to scavenge free radicals was evaluated by inhibition of the oxidation of 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and 2,2'-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) (ABTS) and was shown to be about 74% and 98%, respectively, compared with standard antioxidants.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.1074-1079
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• 1996

적갈색을 띄는 연체부위의 긴 발을 가지는 새조개는 육질과 맛이 닭고기와 비슷하며 단맛이 많이 나서 패류 중 고가품으로 취급되고 식용으로 호평받고 있어 약간 데친 후 동결하여 주로 일본으로 수출하고 있다. 그러나 자숙과정에서 기다란 연체부의 적갈색 색소가 상당량 소실 또는 변퇴색을 일으켜 상품성을 잃기 쉽다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 기다란 연체부의 발을 가지고 이 부위에 적갈색의 색소를 띄고 있는 새조개의 탈각, 자숙 및 동결처리 과정에서 적갈색 색소의 소실을 방지하여 상품성을 높이기 위한 방안의 하나로 새조개 연체부의 적갈색 색소를 추출, 분리하고, 색소의 이화학적인 특성을 검토한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 새조개 색소의 추출은 먼저 연체부위의 색소를 일단 물에서 벗겨낸 후 여과하고, 물로써 3회 수세하여 소량의 2N NaOH용액에 용해시켜 추출하였다. 2N NaOH-ace-tone(1 : 1) 혼합용액을 전개용매로 하여 preparative-TLC를 행하여 불순물을 제거한 새조개 색소액은 자외부 및 가시부 흡수스펙트럼을 측정하였을 때 표준품 melanin과 동일한 226nm에서 단일의 큰 흡수대를 보였고, 표준품으로 사용한 melanin과 분리된 색소를 물, methanol, acetone, ethyl ether, hexane, formic acid, HCI용액 및 NaOH용액에서 용해시켰을 때 NaOH용 액에서만 용해되었고, 과산화수소에서는 단시간에 표백이 일어나 거의 무색으로 탈색되어 표준품 melanin 과 동일한 상태를 나타내었다. 이것으로 미루어 새조개에서 추출한 색소는 melanin형 색소로 동정하였다. 새조개 색소를 $온도70^{\circ}C,$ $80^{\circ}C,$ $90^{\circ}C및$ $100^{\circ}C에서$ 시간별로 가열시켰을 때 가열 초기에 색소의 파괴가 빠르게 일어나, 가열 1시간 후 색소의 잔존율이 $70^{\circ}C,$ $80^{\circ}C,$ $90^{\circ}C$ 및 $100^{\circ}C에서$ 각각 98.2%, 97.3%, 95.3% 및 94.1% 였고, 가열 8시간 후의 잔존율은 각각 95.0%, 93.3%, 90.8%및 87.6%로 나타나 대체로 열에 대하여 안정성이 높았다.

• 한국동물학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.292-300
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• 1987

The ultrastructure of the tentacular pigment cells and the origin of the pigment granules in the Chinese mystery snail, Cipangopaludina chinensis malleata Reeve, are studied with electron microscope. Tentacular pigment cells of the Enail are the melanophores which contain electron dense melanosomes(melanin pigment granules) . Melanophores are distributed among the connective tissues but otter kind of dermal chromatephores are not observed. The epidermal melanin units are observed in the epithelial tissues of the tentacles. Among the several kinds of epithelial cells, only the epithelial supporting cells contain these pigment granules. Synthesis of the pigment materials is from the rough ER and pigment granules are finally being packaged and released by the Golgi complexes but limiting membrane of these granules are presumed to be originated from the smooth ER.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.48-50
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• 1995

We discovered that the Bacillus licheniformis SSA3, fermenting traditional Korean soy sauce and soybean paste, involved in the synthesis of a dark-brown pigment. This pigment produced in the minimal medium supplemented with tyrosine only as precursor. We showed that this pigment is novel, and differed from melanoidin and melanin, and an antimutagenic substance.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.134-142
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• 1989

Aureobasidium pullulans에 의한 세포외 다속류 생성연구를 통한 결론은 다음과 같다. (1) sucrose 농도가 50 g/l 이상일 때는 기질에 의한 저해 작용이 나타나고 있음을 알았으며 실소원의 증가에 따라서 균체량은 증가하지만 세포외 다속류 생성은 최적농도 (1 g/l )까지 증가하고 그 이상에서는 감소했으며 멜라닌 색소 출현시간은 길어졌다. (2) 최대 균체 성장은 초기 pH 3.0에서 보인 반면에 세포외 다속류 생성은 초기 pH 7.5에서 최대 값은 나타내었고 최대 PH가 증가함에 따라서 효모형 비율이 증가했으며 멜라닌 색소 출현시간은 pH 4.5~8까지는 거의 일정하게 나타났지만 pH 3 이하에서는 전혀 멜라닌 색소가 나타나지 않았다. (3) 탄소원과 실소원을 증가시켰을 때 pH 5 이하에서는 멜라닌 색소는 나타나지 않았으나 pH 6에서 pH 8.5 로 pH가 높아짐에 따라 멜라닌 색소는 빨리 나타나는 경향을 보였다. (4) 용존산소 농도가 높을수록 균체량과 세포외 다속류 생성이 증가했고 멜라닌 색소 출현시간이 빨라졌으며 potassium phosphate가 전혀 들어있지 않는 배지에서는 멜라닌 색소 출현은 관찰할수가 없었다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2015년도 제49회 하계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.161.2-161.2
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• 2015

Melanin is a black pigment, responsible for hair and skin color. In order to find the melanin stimulatory technique which prove useful for a gray and a white hair-preventive agent or tanning agent, we developed atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ) and tested for tyrosinase activity and melanin production in melanoma (B16F10) cells in vitro. We found plasma dose dependent increase in melanin production. To explore the contributing mechanism in melanin synthesis, intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) and MAP kinase signaling pathways were studied. Furthermore, the development of plasma technology for melanin synthesis and planning for in-vivo future studies will be discussed.