El-Naggar Noura El-Ahmady, Saber WesamEldin I A
Department of Bioprocess Development, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute, City of Scientific Research and Technological Applications (SRTA-City), Alexandria 21934, Egypt.
Microbial Activity Unit, Microbiology Department, Soils, Water and Environment Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza 12619, Egypt.
Polymers (Basel). 2022 Mar 25;14(7):1339. doi: 10.3390/polym14071339.
Melanin is a universal natural dark polymeric pigment, arising in microorganisms, animals, and plants. There is a couple of pieces of literature on melanin, each focusing on a different issue, the goal of the present review is to focus on microbial melanin. It has numerous benefits with very few drawbacks. The current situation and expected trends are discussed. Intriguing, numerous studies have provoked a serious necessity for a comprehensive assessment of microbial melanin pigments. So that, such review would help scholars from diverse backgrounds to realize the importance of melanin pigments isolated from microorganisms, with this aim in mind, information, and hypothesis from this review could be the paradigm for studies on melanin in the next era.
黑色素是一种普遍存在的天然深色聚合色素，存在于微生物、动物和植物中。关于黑色素有几篇文献，每篇都聚焦于不同的问题，本综述的目的是聚焦于微生物黑色素。它有许多优点，缺点很少。文中讨论了当前的情况和预期趋势。有趣的是，众多研究引发了对微生物黑色素进行全面评估的迫切需求。因此，这样的综述将有助于不同背景的学者认识到从微生物中分离出的黑色素色素的重要性，出于这一目的，本综述中的信息和假设可能成为下一时代黑色素研究的范例。
