Extracellular production of neoculin, a sweet-tasting heterodimeric protein with taste-modifying activity, by Aspergillus oryzae

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 3716-3723

  Nakajima, Ken Ichiro ^a   Asakura, Tomiko ^b   Maruyama, Jun Ichi ^a   Morita, Yuji ^a   Oike, Hideaki ^a   Shimizu Ibuka, Akiko ^a,c   Misaka, Takumi ^a   Sorimachi, Hiroyuki ^a,d   Arai, Soichi ^c   Kitamoto, Katsuhiko ^a   Abe, Keiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Atomigakuen Junior College   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CELLS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DIMERS; DNA; IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; DISULFIDE BONDS; HUMAN SWEET TASTE RECEPTORS; TASTE-MODIFYING ACTIVITY;

PROTEINS;

AMYLASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HETERODIMER; HYBRID PROTEIN; NEOCULIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTEINASE; SWEETENING AGENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRIGLYCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; CALCIUM; DNA; PLASMID; PROTEIN; SUGAR;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SWEETNESS; TASTE BUD;

ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL LINE; CURCULIGO; DIMERIZATION; HUMANS; PLANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SWEETENING AGENTS; TASTE;

ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE;

EID: 33646565945     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.5.3716-3723.2006     Document Type: Article

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