@misc{Peter1980,
  author    = {Peter, Martin G.},
  title     = {Products of in vitro oxidation of N-acetyldopamine as possible components in the sclerotization of insect cuticle},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-16759},
  year      = {1980},
  abstract  = {[1-14C]-N-Acetyldopamine (NADA) was oxidized in the presence of methyl [3-3H]-β-alanate with mushroom tyrosinase. The complex mixture of reaction products was partly resolved by chromatographic procedures and analyzed by spectroscopic methods. Methyl-β-alanate is incorporated to only a small extent into oxidation products of NADA which inter alia are presumed to be oligomeric hydroxyquinones. After oxidation of [1-14C, 2-3H]-NADA with preparations from tanning Manduca sexta pupal cuticle, N-acetylnoradrenalin was identified as one of the products. Binding of radioactivity to melanin-like material was also observed. These results suggest that oxidation products different from those formulated usually for the crosslinkages between protein amino groups and N-acetyldopaquinone are deposited in darkly brown coloured insect cuticles during sclerotization.},
  language  = {en}
}