How a member of a family of light-sensitive proteins adjusts skin color

ScienceDaily
May 17, 2019, 4:10 pm214 pts
Researchers have found that opsin 3 -- a protein closely related to rhodopsin, the protein that enables low-light vision -- has a role in adjusting the amount of pigment produced in human skin, a determinant of skin color.

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