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ArticleBiotechnologia2021

Melanin production by

Seelam Siva Deepthi, Mohan K Reddy, Neelam Mishra, Dayanand Agsar

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Article in Biotechnologia, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Seelam Siva DeepthiDepartment of Microbiology, Gulbarga University, Kalaburagi, Karnataka, India.
Mohan K ReddyDepartment of Biotechnology, Gulbarga University, Kalaburagi, Karnataka, India.
Neelam MishraDepartment of Microbiology, Gulbarga University, Kalaburagi, Karnataka, India.
Dayanand AgsarDepartment of Microbiology, Gulbarga University, Kalaburagi, Karnataka, India.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Melanin finds enormous applications in different industries for its unique photoprotective and anti-oxidant properties. Due to its emerging demand, scientific researchers are putting efforts to unravel more microorganisms with a potential of producing melanin on large scale. Hence, the present study was aimed at the isolation of extracellular melanin producing microorganisms from lime quarries of Karnataka, India. Besides this, the tyrosinase gene governing melanin synthesis in different organisms were compared Material and methods: Melanin producing microorganisms were screened on tyrosine gelatin beef extract agar medium. Potential isolate was explored for submerged production of melanin in broth containing L-tyrosine. Melanin was characterized by UV-Vis spectroscopy, thin layer and high performance liquid chromatographic techniques. Antibacterial activity of melanin was performed by agar well assay. Comparative tyrosinase gene sequence analysis was performed by using Geneious 2021.1 trial version software. Results: Conclusions: Our study shows the production of melanin in good quantities by the isolate

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common central domainHomo sapiensmelanogenic genesnatural pigmentPseudomonas sps.

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