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== <h4><span style="color: purple;"> Introduction to Miraculin </span> </h4> == | == <h4><span style="color: purple;"> Introduction to Miraculin </span> </h4> == | ||
Miracle? I think you mean ''Miraculin''. | Miracle? I think you mean ''Miraculin''. | ||
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Miraculin is a protein that is best known for its ability to deceive human taste buds into thinking | Miraculin is a protein that is best known for its ability to deceive human taste buds into thinking | ||
sour or acidic food is sweet. This homodimeric glycoprotein was first identified in the West | sour or acidic food is sweet. This homodimeric glycoprotein was first identified in the West | ||
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prevented its commercial use in the food industry. | prevented its commercial use in the food industry. | ||
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== <h4><span style="color: purple;"> What We Know About Miraculin’s Structure </span></h4> == | == <h4><span style="color: purple;"> What We Know About Miraculin’s Structure </span></h4> == | ||
Miraculin is composed of 191 amino acid residues linked primarily by disulfide bonds, | Miraculin is composed of 191 amino acid residues linked primarily by disulfide bonds, | ||
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are cross-linked through a disulfide bridge. Miraculin can also exist in a tetramer form. | are cross-linked through a disulfide bridge. Miraculin can also exist in a tetramer form. | ||
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| + | == <h4><span style="color: purple;"> Predictivley-modeled structure of miraculin </span></h4> == | ||
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| + | == <h4><span style="color: purple;"> Miraculin’s interactions with human tongue receptors </span></h4> == | ||
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| - | + | == <h4><span style="color: purple;"> Miraculin-Like Proteins (MLPs) </span></h4> == | |
| - | == Miraculin-Like Proteins (MLPs) == | + | test |
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</StructureSection> | </StructureSection> | ||
Revision as of 07:30, 24 April 2020
Miraculin, a taste-deceiving protein
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References
- ↑ Hanson, R. M., Prilusky, J., Renjian, Z., Nakane, T. and Sussman, J. L. (2013), JSmol and the Next-Generation Web-Based Representation of 3D Molecular Structure as Applied to Proteopedia. Isr. J. Chem., 53:207-216. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ijch.201300024
- ↑ Herraez A. Biomolecules in the computer: Jmol to the rescue. Biochem Mol Biol Educ. 2006 Jul;34(4):255-61. doi: 10.1002/bmb.2006.494034042644. PMID:21638687 doi:10.1002/bmb.2006.494034042644
- ↑ https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_120.html
- ↑ https://www.jbc.org/content/263/23/11536.full.pdf+html
