Rifampicin is not an inhibitor of tyrosinase.
Tarasek D, Wojtasek H.
Tarasek D, et al.
Int J Biol Macromol. 2022 Sep 1;216:830-835. doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2022.07.217. Epub 2022 Jul 30.
Int J Biol Macromol. 2022.
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However, rifampicin contains a p-diphenol group and compounds with such a moiety have been shown before to reduce tyrosinase-generated o-quinones. Rifampicin also shows strong absorption in a region completely overlapping with the visible absorption band of dopachrome, the …
However, rifampicin contains a p-diphenol group and compounds with such a moiety have been shown before to reduce tyrosinase-generated o- …