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China Surfactant Detergent & Cosmetics ›› 2023, Vol. 53 ›› Issue (10): 1194-1203.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2097-2806.2023.10.011

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Progress in metabolic mechanism and research methods of melanin production

Yang Xiaoyu1,Liu Jinjun2,Liu Lei1,*(),He Congfen1,Bi Yongxian2,Li Hao2   

  1. 1. Beijing Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Research and Development, School of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China
    2. Zhejiang Yige Enterprise Management Group Co., Ltd, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310000, China
  • Received:2022-09-08 Revised:2023-09-24 Online:2023-10-22 Published:2023-10-27
  • Contact: *Tel.: +86-18611801510, E-mail: liulei@btbu.edu.cn.

Abstract:

With the development of the times, the market demand of whitening agent is increasing day by day, which has a high development value. Skin color mainly depends on the proportion of true melanin and brown melanin, as well as the number, size, distribution and degree of melanization of melanosomes, so the development of whitening active substances mainly depends on the process of melanin production. Based on this, this paper focuses on the literature reports in the past few years, summarizes and discusses the latest progress in the regulation process of melanin production in five steps, and summarizes the key regulation signal pathways, important markers and their detection methods from the regulation mechanism. It provides a theoretical basis for the development of whitening products from a more comprehensive and specific perspective. Finally, with reference to the action mechanism of different stages of melanogenesis, the different ways and current research progress of the development of whitening active components are summarized. The combined use of whitening active ingredients can play a greater whitening effect to a certain extent, and it has gradually become the development trend of whitening agents. This paper can provide a reference for melanin production through the regulation of different stages of melanin, and provide a more scientific research and development direction for whitening products.

Key words: whitening, melanocyte, melanosome, melanogenesis

CLC Number: 

  • TQ658