The Metabolism of Melatonin (N-Acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) and 5-Methoxytryptamine
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The metabolism of melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) and 5-methoxytryptamine.
The potent frog skin-lightening agent “melatonin” was isolated from pineal tissue and characterized as N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine by Lerner, Case, and Takahashi (1). Recently, Axelrod and Weissbach (2), studying the biogenesis of this hormone, have shown it to be the product of a specific methylating enzyme system in the pineal gland which acts on the substrate N-acetylserotonin, a substance ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biological Chemistry
سال: 1961
ISSN: 0021-9258
DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)93998-0