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Tyrosinase

Tyrosinase makes the brown pigment in your skin, hair, and eyes. Different gene versions make different amounts.

Tyrosinase: its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P14679, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

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Fun fact

In one common kind of albinism, tyrosinase does not work, so the body makes little or none of this pigment.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P14679. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P14679.

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