What is it about?
This was the first paper introducing the new name tautomerase to an enzyme that before it hd been described as dopachome conversion factor.
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Why is it important?
The characterization of the enzyme prove that dopachrome was transformed to 5.6-dihydroxyindole-2 carboxylic acid (DHICA). The importance of this catalysis is the no decarboxylation tautomerization of dopachrome, explaining the incorporation of DHICA units to the eumelanin polymer
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This page is a summary of: A new spectrophotometric assay for dopachrome tautomerase, Journal of Biochemical and Biophysical Methods, June 1990, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/0165-022x(90)90043-c.
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