Riboflavin-binding protein is a novel bitter inhibitor

Chemical Senses

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-63

  Maehashi, Kenji ^a   Matano, Mami ^a   Nonaka, Miho ^a   Udaka, Shigezo ^a   Yamamoto, Yasushi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bitter inhibitor; Caffeine; Quinine; Riboflavin binding protein

Indexed keywords

AURANTIIN; BETA LACTOGLOBULIN; CAFFEINE; DENATONIUM BENZOATE; GLYCYLPHENYLALANINE; OVALBUMIN; QUININE; RIBOFLAVIN BINDING PROTEIN; THEOBROMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BITTER TASTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; STIMULATION; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE AVERSION; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

ACID PHOSPHATASE; ADULT; CAFFEINE; DIPEPTIDES; EGG WHITE; EGG YOLK; FEMALE; FLAVANONES; HUMANS; LACTOGLOBULINS; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; OVALBUMIN; PROTEIN BINDING; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; QUININE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SERUM ALBUMIN, BOVINE; TASTE; THEOBROMINE;

EID: 38949127962     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjm062     Document Type: Article

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