Also known as (S)-2-amino-3-(3,4-dioxocyclohexa-1,5-dien-1-yl)propanoate, L-dopaquinone
-Dopaquinone also known as '''o-dopaquinone''' is a metabolite of L-DOPA (L-dihydroxyphenylalanine) and a precursor of melanin.
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-Dopaquinone also known as '''o-dopaquinone''' is a metabolite of L-DOPA (L-dihydroxyphenylalanine) and a precursor of melanin.
Biosynthesis of melanin occurs in melanocytes, where tyrosine is converted into DOPA and then dopaquinone, which goes on to be formed into pheomelanin or eumelanin.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).