curculin
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Curculin or neoculin is a sweet protein complex that was discovered and isolated in 1990 from the fruit of Curculigo latifolia (Hypoxidaceae). Like miraculin, curculin exhibits taste-modifying activity; however, unlike miraculin, it also exhibits a sweet taste by itself. After consumption of curculin, water and sour solutions taste sweet.
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- Nonhuman protein.Name
- Curculin-2
- Nonhuman protein.caption
- A curculin homodimer. From .
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- Nonhuman protein.Symbol
- CURC2_CURLA
- Nonhuman protein.UniProt
- Q6F495
- Nonhuman protein.PDB
- 2DPF
- Nonhuman protein.Organism
- Molineria latifolia
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- Protein structure
- Sweetness properties
- As a sweetener
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Curculin or neoculin is a sweet protein complex that was discovered and isolated in 1990 from the fruit of Curculigo latifolia (Hypoxidaceae). Like miraculin, curculin exhibits taste-modifying activity; however, unlike miraculin, it also exhibits a sweet taste by itself. After consumption of curculin, water and sour solutions taste sweet.
mRNAs for a related protein complex is found in Curculigo capitulata fruits, though at a much lower level of expression – so low that the product is undetectable by immunoblotting.