Curculin, a sweet-tasting and taste-modifying protein, is a non-functional mannose-binding lectin

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 691-698

  Barre, Annick ^a   Van Damme, Els J M ^b   Peumans, Willy J ^b   Rougé, Pierre ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE ET DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

curculin; docking; epitopes; lectins; molecular modelling; sweet proteins

Indexed keywords

CURCULIN PROTEIN, PLANT; LECTIN; MANNOSE; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN; PLANT LECTIN; SNOWDROP LECTIN; SWEETENING AGENT; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG EFFECT; GALANTHUS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TASTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GALANTHUS; LECTINS; MANNOSE; MANNOSE-BINDING LECTINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT LECTINS; PLANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SWEETENING AGENTS; TASTE;

CURCULIGO LATIFOLIA; GALANTHUS; GALANTHUS NIVALIS;

EID: 0031105098     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005704616565     Document Type: Article

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