monellin
Sign in to saveMonellin, a sweet protein, was discovered in 1969 in the fruit of the West African shrub known as serendipity berry (Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii); it was first reported as a carbohydrate. The protein was named in 1972 after the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, U.S.A., where it was isolated and characterized.
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- Nonhuman protein.Name
- Monellin Chain A
- Nonhuman protein.caption
- X-ray crystal structure of an engineered single-chain monellin protein.
- Nonhuman protein.image
- hmonellin.png
- Nonhuman protein.Symbol
- MonA
- Nonhuman protein.UniProt
- P02881
- Nonhuman protein.PDB
- 1IV7
- Nonhuman protein.Organism
- Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii
- Protein family.Symbol
- Monellin
- Protein family.InterPro
- IPR015283
- Protein family.Pfam
- PF09200
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- Protein composition
- Sweetness properties
- As a sweetener
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Monellin, a sweet protein, was discovered in 1969 in the fruit of the West African shrub known as serendipity berry (Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii); it was first reported as a carbohydrate. The protein was named in 1972 after the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, U.S.A., where it was isolated and characterized.
== Protein composition == Monellin's molecular weight is 10.7 kDa. It has two noncovalently associated polypeptide chains: an A chain sequence with 44 amino acid residues, and a B chain with 50 residues.