Hypothesis/review: The structural basis of sweetness perception of sweet-tasting plant proteins can be deduced from sequence analysis

Plant Science

Volumn 181, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 347-354

  Wintjens, René ^a   Viet, Tran Melody Vu Ngoc ^a   Mbosso, Emmanuel ^a   Huet, Joëlle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Brazzein; Protein homology; Sequence analysis; Structure function; Sweetness receptor; Thaumatin

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TASTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TASTE; TASTE PERCEPTION;

EID: 80052320849     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2011.06.009     Document Type: Review

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