Talk:Tyrosinase

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tyrosinase is requied for ripening of friut?

[edit] The origin of the word 'tyrosinase'

From the article:

A German scientist named Albert Rugerstein named this enzyme Tyrosinase after his friend, Tyro Sinaster. Tyro means to be an inexperienced person; beginner.

Is this true? In the tyrosine article appears this contradictory, and more plausible, statement:

Tyrosine (from the Greek tyros, meaning cheese, as it was first discovered in 1846 by German chemist Justus von Liebig in cheese[1][2]) ...

--GrimRC 86.4.58.252 05:24, 20 December 2006 (UTC)