CHEBI:25179 - melanins

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ChEBI Name melanins
ChEBI ID CHEBI:25179
Definition Melanin is a class of polyphenol compounds, which mainly serve as pigments in plants, animals and protists. The most common biological form is eumelanin.
Stars This entity has not been annotated and is a preliminary ChEBI entity.
Secondary ChEBI IDs CHEBI:6727
Roles Classification
Biological Role(s): biological pigment
An endogenous molecular entity that results in a colour of an organism as the consequence of the selective absorption of light.
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Outgoing melanins (CHEBI:25179) has role biological pigment (CHEBI:26130)
melanins (CHEBI:25179) is a polyphenol (CHEBI:26195)
Incoming 1,8-dihydroxynaphthalene-melanin (CHEBI:167605) is a melanins (CHEBI:25179)
catechol melanin (CHEBI:23055) is a melanins (CHEBI:25179)
eumelanin (CHEBI:24009) is a melanins (CHEBI:25179)
Melanin (CHEBI:89634) is a melanins (CHEBI:25179)
Last Modified
04 March 2021