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Purification and Structural Characterization of Homologues of the Heat-Stable Sweet Protein, Mabinlin

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Olfaction and Taste XI

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The plants, Capparis masaikai Lévl. (local name mabinlang), which grows in the subtropical region of Yunnan province in China, bears fruit of tennis-ball size. The mature seed is used as traditional Chinese medicine and elicits a sweet taste. The seeds of C. masaikai contain the heat-stable sweet protein named mabinlin.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Facutly of Education, Yokohama National University, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, 240, Japan

    Satoru Nirasawa & Yoshie Kurihara

  2. Kunming Institute of Botany, The Academy of Sciences of China, Yunnan, Kunming, China

    Xiaozhu Liu & Zhong Hu

  3. Department of Biochemistry, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, 236, Japan

    Tomoko Nishino

  4. Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, 240, Japan

    Masato Katahira & Seiichi Uesugi

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  1. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, N-13 W-6, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060, Japan

    Kenzo Kurihara D.S. (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Animal Behavior and Intelligence, Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, N-10 W-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060, Japan

    Noriyo Suzuki D.S. (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

  3. Department of Physiology, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, 2-2-1 Honjo, Kumamoto, 860, Japan

    Hisashi Ogawa M.D., D.M.S. (Professor) (Professor)

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Nirasawa, S. et al. (1994). Purification and Structural Characterization of Homologues of the Heat-Stable Sweet Protein, Mabinlin. In: Kurihara, K., Suzuki, N., Ogawa, H. (eds) Olfaction and Taste XI. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68355-1_105

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