Skin, Hair & Glow · commonly explored around skin and hair
Melanotan II
Melanotan II switches on the skin’s pigment signal and a brain desire signal. Small human studies showed tanning and improved erections, which is why it is known as the tanning peptide.
Informational profile
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Also known as MT-II · MT-2
Mapped targets
- Sequence
- XDHFRWK
- Length
- 7 residues
- MW
- 1024.19 Da computed
- Product tags
- melanocortin · cyclic lactam · d residue
- Checked sources
- No checked source added yet
- Structure provenance
- Sequence-derived illustration (not a measured structure)
Melanotan II has an amidated C terminus, unlike bremelanotide (PT-141).
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Meet Melanotan II
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Melanotan II switches on the skin’s pigment signal and a brain desire signal. Small human studies showed tanning and improved erections, which is why it is known as the tanning peptide.
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Section B
The quick read
Section C
Research at a glance
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Section D
What the sources looked at
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Section E
Why people look it up
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skin and hair
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Section F
What the record can tell us
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Section H
How far it has been tested
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Section I
How many separate teams
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Section J
What doesn’t fit?
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Section K
Timeline
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Research
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Real-world reports
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Section L
Sources
Every study we used. Only studies we confirmed on PubMed are shown as sources. Where a drug is FDA-approved, its official label sits beside them — that is an approval, not a sales pitch.
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The building blocks, one by one
| # | Code | Residue | Class | Chirality | Features |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nle | Norleucine | hydrophobic | L | Non-standard residueN-acetyl cap |
| 2 | D | Aspartate | negative | L | |
| 3 | H | Histidine | positive | L | |
| 4 | F | Phenylalanine | hydrophobic | D | D-residue |
| 5 | R | Arginine | positive | L | |
| 6 | W | Tryptophan | hydrophobic | L | |
| 7 | K | Lysine | positive | L | C-terminal amide |