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- noun biochemistry A
sweet protein found in Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii.
Etymologies
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Monell + -in, named in 1972 after the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, USA, where it was isolated and characterized.
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Kinetic IR spectroscopy was used to reveal β-sheet formation and water expulsion in the folding of single-chain monellin (SMN) composed of a five-stranded β-sheet and an α-helix.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue 2008
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