“…Although human tyrosinase can be isolated from melanomas [ 6 , 7 , 8 ], well-defined preparations of recombinant hTyr with activities sufficient for large-scale inhibition studies have become available only in recent years [ 9 , 10 , 11 ]. Moreover, in the last decade, several X-ray structures of tyrosinases and tyrosinase-like proteins have been published, including mTyr [ 12 , 13 ], bacterial tyrosinases from Streptomyces castaneoglobisporus (sTyr, [ 14 ]) and Bacillus megaterium (bTyr, [ 15 ]), respectively, and, most recently, the human tyrosinase-related protein 1 (hTrp1), a melanogenic protein of yet unknown function in humans [ 16 ]. Common structural features of these proteins have been reviewed by several authors [ 17 , 18 , 19 ].…”