| Bioactivity | Urocanic acid, produced in the upper layers of mammalian skin, is a major absorber of ultraviolet radiation (UVR). | ||||||||||||
| Invitro | Urocanic acid (UCA) is formed in the upper layers of the epidermis where filaggrin, a histidine-rich filamentous protein produced after caspase-14 cleavage of profilaggrin, is broken down by proteinases into component amino acids[1]. | ||||||||||||
| Name | Urocanic acid | ||||||||||||
| CAS | 104-98-3 | ||||||||||||
| Formula | C6H6N2O2 | ||||||||||||
| Molar Mass | 138.12 | ||||||||||||
| Transport | Room temperature in continental US; may vary elsewhere. | ||||||||||||
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