Structural role of the terminal disulfide bond in the sweetness of brazzein

Chemical Senses

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 821-830

  Dittli, Sannali M ^a   Rao, Hongyu ^a   Tonelli, Marco ^a   Quijada, Jeniffer ^b   Markley, John L ^a   Max, Marianna ^c   Assadi Porter, Fariba ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazzein; Dynamics; Multibinding site; Sweet receptor; Sweet tasting protein

Indexed keywords

BRAZZEIN; SWEET PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR BINDING; SWEETNESS; TASTE BUD; WILD TYPE;

DISULFIDES; HYDROGEN BONDING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PLANT PROTEINS; SWEETENING AGENTS; TASTE;

EID: 80054957571     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjr057     Document Type: Article

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