Also known as 2,3,5,6-tetrahydro-5,6-dioxo-1H-indole-2-carboxylic acid, (D/L)-dopachrome
Dopachrome is a cyclization product of L-DOPA and is an intermediate in the biosynthesis of melanin. It may tautomerise to form DHICA.
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Dopachrome is a cyclization product of L-DOPA and is an intermediate in the biosynthesis of melanin. It may tautomerise to form DHICA.
== See also == Dopachrome tautomerase, a human gene
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).