Monellin

Monellin, subunit A ( Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii )
	Existing structural data: s. UniProt
Mass / length primary structure	50 amino acids
Identifier
External IDs	UniProt : P02882 ;

Monellin, subunit A ( Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii )
	Existing structural data: s. UniProt
Mass / length primary structure	45 amino acids
Identifier
External IDs	UniProt : P02881 ;

Monellin is a natural sweetener , a protein found in the pulp of the moon seed family Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii . It consists of 2 peptide chains with 45 and 50 amino acids , which are not covalently linked and only taste sweet together; characterized the sweet taste is not thermostable . Monellin is about 1,500 to 2,500 times as sweet as sucrose ( table sugar ).

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Werner Baltes: Food chemistry . 3. Edition. Springer, Berlin 1992, ISBN 978-3-540-66525-0 , pp. 182 .
Hans-Dieter Belitz , Werner Grosch, Andreas Schieberle: Textbook of food chemistry . 5th edition. Springer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-540-73201-3 , pp. 428-430 .
Entry on Monellin. In: Römpp Online . Georg Thieme Verlag, accessed on December 30, 2019.