Design of sweet protein based sweeteners: Hints from structure-function relationships

Food Chemistry

Volumn 173, Issue , 2015, Pages 1179-1186

  Rega, Michele Fortunato ^a   Di Monaco, Rossella ^a   Leone, Serena ^a   Donnarumma, Federica ^a   Spadaccini, Roberta ^b   Cavella, Silvana ^a   Picone, Delia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

MNEI; Monellin; Protein sweeteners; Single chain monellin; Sweet proteins

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CHAINS; FOOD ADDITIVES;

AMINO ACID RESIDUES; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; MNEI; MONELLIN; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; SINGLE-CHAIN MONELLIN; STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIP; SWEET PROTEIN;

PROTEINS;

AMINO ACID; MONELLIN; SWEET PROTEIN; SWEETENING AGENT; MONELLIN PROTEIN, DIOSCOREOPHYLLUM CUMMINSII; MUTANT PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BEVERAGE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MODULATION; PH; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SOLUBILITY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SWEETNESS; TASTE; THERMOSTABILITY; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MUTANT PROTEINS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SWEETENING AGENTS; TASTE;

EID: 84910674302     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: 18737072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2014.10.151     Document Type: Article

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