Key facts
- Nonhuman protein.Name
- Miraculin glycoprotein
- Nonhuman protein.caption
- Crystallographic structure of a dimeric miraculin-like protein from seeds of Murraya koenigii.
- Nonhuman protein.image
- Miraculin.png
- Nonhuman protein.Symbol
- MIRA_RICDU
- Nonhuman protein.UniProt
- P13087
- Nonhuman protein.PDB
- 3IIR
- Nonhuman protein.Organism
- Synsepalum dulcificu
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Protein · UniProt
Miraculin
- Organism
- Synsepalum dulcificum (Miracle fruit)
- Length
- 220 aa
- Molecular mass
- 24,367 Da
- Evidence
- 1: Evidence at protein level
Miraculin has the property of modifying a sour taste into a sweet taste. This alteration of taste perception persists for many minutes
Direct protein sequencingDisulfide bondGlycoproteinSignalTaste-modifying protein
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Swiss-Prot (reviewed) · via UniProt
Clinical Trials
1 registered- PHASE3RECRUITINGAddressing Taste Dysfunction With Miraculin in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Receiving Radiation TherapyUniversity of California, San Francisco · NCT05273307
Wikidata facts
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- natural product of taxon
- Synsepalum dulcificum
- Commons category
- Miraculin
Sources (2)
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Article · Italiano
La miracolina, o miraculina (MLC), è una glicoproteina, contenente anche polifenoli attivi, presente nei frutti di Synsepalum dulcificum. È un dolcificante naturale, con la caratteristica di alterare la percezione di alimenti amari e acidi, facendoli sembrare dolci.
Abstract from DBpedia / Wikipedia · CC BY-SA