monellin
Identification
| Name | monellin |
| CAS Number | 9062-83-3 |
| FDA UNII | Search |
| MDL Number | MFCD00131618 |
Regulatory
Physical Properties
| Food Chemicals Codex Listed | No |
No sensory data available
Safety Information
| Preferred SDS | View |
| Oral/Parenteral Toxicity | Not determined |
| Dermal Toxicity | Not determined |
| Inhalation Toxicity | Not determined |
GHS Classification
['GHS Classification in accordance with 29 CFR 1910 (OSHA HCS)', 'GHS Label elements, including precautionary statements']
Safety in Use
| Category | sweeteners, flavor enhancers |
| Recommendation for monellin usage levels up to | not for fragrance use. |
| Recommendation for monellin flavor usage levels up to | not for flavor use. |
No supplier data available
Potential Uses
Natural Occurrence
Synonyms
monellin
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Picosecond fluorescence dynamics of tryptophan and 5-fluorotryptophan in monellin: slow water-protein relaxation unmasked.
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Improving Flavour and Quality of Tomatoes by Expression of Synthetic Gene Encoding Sweet Protein Monellin.
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Design of sweet protein based sweeteners: hints from structure-function relationships.
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Expression of monellin in a food-grade delivery system in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
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High-energy intermediates in protein unfolding characterized by thiol labeling under nativelike conditions.
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Amyloid fibril formation by the chain B subunit of monellin occurs by a nucleation-dependent polymerization mechanism.
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Charge dependent retardation of amyloid β aggregation by hydrophilic proteins.
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The utilization of competing unfolding pathways of monellin is dictated by enthalpic barriers.
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A buried ionizable residue destabilizes the native state and the transition state in the folding of monellin.
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Functional characterization of the heterodimeric sweet taste receptor T1R2 and T1R3 from a New World monkey species (squirrel monkey) and its response to sweet-tasting proteins.
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Kinetic studies of the folding of heterodimeric monellin: evidence for switching between alternative parallel pathways.
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The effect of nanoparticles on amyloid aggregation depends on the protein stability and intrinsic aggregation rate.
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Identification of novel sweet protein for nutritional applications.
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Determinants of sweetness in proteins: a topological approach.
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Identification of multiple folding pathways of monellin using pulsed thiol labeling and mass spectrometry.
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Equilibrium unfolding studies of monellin: the double-chain variant appears to be more stable than the single-chain variant.
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Reduced sweetness of a monellin (MNEI) mutant results from increased protein flexibility and disruption of a distant poly-(L-proline) II helix.
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Expression and secretion of a single-chain sweet protein, monellin, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by an α-factor signal peptide.
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Interactions in the native state of monellin, which play a protective role against aggregation.
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Heterologous expression, purification and characterization of heterodimeric monellin.
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Key amino acid residues involved in multi-point binding interactions between brazzein, a sweet protein, and the T1R2-T1R3 human sweet receptor.
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Aggregation mechanisms of cystatins: a comparative study of monellin and oryzacystatin.
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Modeling the fluorescence of protein-embedded tryptophans with ab initio multiconfigurational quantum chemistry: the limiting cases of parvalbumin and monellin.
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Direct evidence for a dry molten globule intermediate during the unfolding of a small protein.
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Continuous dissolution of structure during the unfolding of a small protein.
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GroEL can unfold late intermediates populated on the folding pathways of monellin.
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Characterization of Solanum tuberosum multicystatin and its structural comparison with other cystatins.
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Role of protein surface charge in monellin sweetness.
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[Cloning, characterization and application of the promoter region of the alkaline protease gene in Bacillus alcalophillus PB92].
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Dehydration of main-chain amides in the final folding step of single-chain monellin revealed by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy.
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Characterization of the folding and unfolding reactions of single-chain monellin: evidence for multiple intermediates and competing pathways.
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Monellin (MNEI) at 1.15 A resolution.
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Developments in biotechnological production of sweet proteins.
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Riboflavin-binding protein exhibits selective sweet suppression toward protein sweeteners.
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Expression and secretion of a single-chain sweet protein monellin in Bacillus subtilis by sacB promoter and signal peptide.
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Sucrose substitutes and their role in caries prevention.
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The importance of electrostatic potential in the interaction of sweet proteins with the sweet taste receptor.
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Intra- versus intermolecular interactions in monellin: contribution of surface charges to protein assembly.
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Toward the understanding of MNEI sweetness from hydration map surfaces.
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Ultrafast fluorescence dynamics of tryptophan in the proteins monellin and IIAGlc.
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High-level expression of a synthetic gene encoding a sweet protein, monellin, in Escherichia coli.
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[Overexpression of a sweet protein monellin in Escherichia coli].
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Probing the sweet determinants of brazzein: wild-type brazzein and a tasteless variant, brazzein-ins(R18a-I18b), exhibit different pH-dependent NMR chemical shifts.
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Specific collapse followed by slow hydrogen-bond formation of beta-sheet in the folding of single-chain monellin.
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Sweet proteins--potential replacement for artificial low calorie sweeteners.
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Multi-method global analysis of thermodynamics and kinetics in reconstitution of monellin.
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Structure of monellin refined to 2.3 a resolution in the orthorhombic crystal form.
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The cysteine-rich region of T1R3 determines responses to intensely sweet proteins.
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Interaction of sweet proteins with their receptor. A conformational study of peptides corresponding to loops of brazzein, monellin and thaumatin.
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Fluorescence studies of protein thermostability in ionic liquids.
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Behavioral study in the gray mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus) using compounds considered sweet by humans.
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Monkey electrophysiological and human psychophysical responses to mutants of the sweet protein brazzein: delineating brazzein sweetness.
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Activation mechanism of HSP16.5 from Methanococcus jannaschii.
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On the mechanism of chaperone activity of the small heat-shock protein of Methanococcus jannaschii.
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The mechanism of interaction of sweet proteins with the T1R2-T1R3 receptor: evidence from the solution structure of G16A-MNEI.
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Ultrafast surface hydration dynamics and expression of protein functionality: alpha -Chymotrypsin.
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Why are sweet proteins sweet? Interaction of brazzein, monellin and thaumatin with the T1R2-T1R3 receptor.
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Hydration at the surface of the protein Monellin: dynamics with femtosecond resolution.
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Sense of taste in a new world monkey, the common marmoset: recordings from the chorda tympani and glossopharyngeal nerves.
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Multistep nucleus formation and a separate subunit contribution of the amyloidgenesis of heat-denatured monellin.
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Folding and stability of sweet protein single-chain monellin. An insight to protein engineering.
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Probing the surface of a sweet protein: NMR study of MNEI with a paramagnetic probe.
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Physicochemical evaluation of protein folds predicted by threading.
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Solution structure, backbone dynamics, and stability of a double mutant single-chain monellin. structural origin of sweetness.
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Solution structure of a sweet protein: NMR study of MNEI, a single chain monellin.
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Three-dimensional solution structure of oryzacystatin-I, a cysteine proteinase inhibitor of the rice, Oryza sativa L. japonica.
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Electrophoresis of proteins and protein-protein complexes in a native agarose gel.
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Recent developments in the characterization and biotechnological production of sweet-tasting proteins.
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Amyloid-like aggregates of a plant protein: a case of a sweet-tasting protein, monellin.
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Enzymatic ligation for synthesis of single-chain analogue of monellin by transglutaminase.
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Solution structure of a sweet protein single-chain monellin determined by nuclear magnetic resonance and dynamical simulated annealing calculations.
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Structural differences in D and L-monellin in the crystals of racemic mixture.
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Structure of an enantiomeric protein, D-monellin at 1.8 A resolution.
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Solid-phase synthesis of single-chain monellin, a sweet protein.
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Small heat shock protein of Methanococcus jannaschii, a hyperthermophile.
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Solution structure of the thermostable sweet-tasting protein brazzein.
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Measurement of Fluorescence from Tryptophan To Probe the Environment and Reaction Kinetics within Protein-Doped Sol-Gel-Derived Glass Monoliths.
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Structure and dynamic studies by NMR of the potent sweet protein monellin and a non-sweet analog. Evidence on the importance of residue AspB7 for sweet taste.
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Taste in chimpanzees II: single chorda tympani fibers.
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Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of D-monellin.
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High-level expression of a sweet protein, monellin, in the food yeast Candida utilis.
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Sweet science: overexpression of monellin in yeast.
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Gustatory receptor cell responses to the sweeteners, monellin and thaumatin.
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Possible active site of the sweet-tasting protein thaumatin.
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Detection of water proximity to tryptophan residues in proteins by single photon radioluminescence.
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Controlling susceptibility against protease digestion.
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The taste-active regions of monellin, a potently sweet protein.
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Production and characterization of cross-reactive monoclonal antibodies to sweet proteins.
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Two crystal structures of a potently sweet protein. Natural monellin at 2.75 A resolution and single-chain monellin at 1.7 A resolution.
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Monoclonal antibodies to sweet taste proteins: II. Development of two different immunoassays for thaumatin and monellin.
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Sweet-tasting protein monellin is related to the cystatin family of thiol proteinase inhibitors.
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Structural characterization of monellin in the alcohol-denatured state by NMR: evidence for beta-sheet to alpha-helix conversion.
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Gustatory neural coding in the monkey cortex: the quality of sweetness.
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Highly probable active site of the sweet protein monellin.
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1H resonance assignments, secondary structure and general topology of single-chain monellin in solution as determined by 1H 2D-NMR.
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Structural determination of the active site of a sweet protein. A 1H NMR investigation of pMNEI.
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Solid-phase synthesis of [AsnA16]-, [AsnA22]-, [GlnA25]-, and [AsnA26]monellin, analogues of the sweet protein monellin.
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An enzyme immunoassay and immunoblot analysis for curculin, a new type of taste-modifying protein: cross-reactivity of curculin and miraculin to both antibodies.
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Characteristics of antisweet substances, sweet proteins, and sweetness-inducing proteins.
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Monoclonal antibodies to sweet taste proteins. I. Analysis of antigenic epitopes on thaumatin by competitive inhibition assays.
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Solid-phase synthesis of crystalline [Ser41] B-chain monellin, an analogue of the sweet protein monellin.
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Solid-phase synthesis of crystalline monellin, a sweet protein.
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Anisotropy decays of single tryptophan proteins measured by GHz frequency-domain fluorometry with collisional quenching.
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Solid-phase synthesis and crystallization of [Asn22, Gln25, Asn26]-A-chain-[Asn49, Glu50]-B-chain-monellin, an analogue of the sweet protein monellin.
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The locked rotation function.
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Purification and complete amino acid sequence of a new type of sweet protein taste-modifying activity, curculin.
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Complete amino acid sequence of the sweet protein monellin.
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Solid-phase synthesis and crystallization of monellin, an intensely sweet protein.
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Redesigning a sweet protein: increased stability and renaturability.
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The sweet taste in the calf. II. Glossopharyngeal nerve responses to taste stimulation of the tongue.
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Three-dimensional reconstructions from incomplete data: interpretability of density maps at "atomic" resolution.
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The sweet taste in the calf. I. Chorda tympani proper nerve responses to taste stimulation of the tongue.
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Binding proteins for sweet compounds from gustatory papillae of the cow, pig and rat.
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Crystal structures of two intensely sweet proteins.
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Does the fluorescence quencher acrylamide bind to proteins?
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Crystal structure of the intensely sweet protein monellin.
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The association of acrylamide with proteins. The interpretation of fluorescence quenching experiments.
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Measurement of subnanosecond anisotropy decays of protein fluorescence using frequency-domain fluorometry.
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Effects of gymnemic acid on the chorda tympani proper nerve responses to sweet, sour, salty and bitter taste stimuli in the chimpanzee.
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Conformational changes of the sweet protein monellin as measured by fluorescence emission.
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Three-dimensional structure of thaumatin I, an intensely sweet protein.
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Peptide interactions with taste receptors: overlap in taste receptor specificity.
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Fast atom bombardment - high field magnet mass spectrometry of 6000 dalton polypeptides.
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Preliminary crystallographic studies of a sweet protein, monellin.
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Fluorescence quenching studies with proteins.
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Formation of oligomeric monellin in protein denaturants.
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Enzymatic properties of the sweet-tasting proteins thaumatin and monellin after partial reduction.
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Non-nutritive sweetening agents.
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Monellin, a sweet-tasting protein, and the biochemistry of sweet taste.
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Qualitative differences among sweeteners.
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The complete amino-acid sequence of the sweet protein thaumatin I.
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Effect of the sweet-tasting protein monellin on growth of a cariogenic bacterium: a microbiological study.
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Biochemical studies of taste sensation: binding to taste tissue of 3H-labeled monellin, a sweet-tasting protein.
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Methylation of the lysine residues of monellin.
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The taste responses in primates to the proteins thaumatin and monellin and their phylogenetic implications.
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Fluorescence characteristics of native and denatured monellin.
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Conformational transitions of monellin, an intensely sweet protein.
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The sulfhydryl group of monellin: its chemical reactivity and importance to the sweet taste.
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Enzymatic proteolysis of monellin. Absence of sweet peptides.
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Mass spectrometric sequencing of proteins. The structure of subunit I of monellin.
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Gustatory effects of miraculin, monellin and thaumatin in the Saguinus midas tamarin monkey studied with electrophysiological and behavioural techniques.
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The complete amino acid sequences of both subunits of the sweet protein monellin.
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The structure of monellin and its relation to the sweetness of the protein.
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Sweetening agents from natural sources.
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Proceedings: Immunological studies with monellin, a protein that tastes sweet.
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Effects of denaturants on the sweet-tasting protein monellin.
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Crystallization and crystal data of monellin.
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Electrophysiological study of the gustatory effects of the sweet proteins monellin and thaumatin in monkey, guinea pig and rat.
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Chemostimulatory protein: a new type of taste stimulus.
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Characterization of monellin, a protein that tastes sweet.
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Purification of monellin, the sweet principle of Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii.