Brazzein sweetener

Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Products per se – or processes of preparing or treating... – Noncarbohydrate sweetener or composition containing same

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536 236, 530324, 435 691, A23L 1236, C12N 1529, C07K 14415

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055275559

ABSTRACT:
Disclosed herein is a protein sweetener that has been isolated from Pentadiplandra brazzeana Baillon. The sweetener is thermostable, lysine rich, and has a relative lasting taste. Also disclosed is a recombinant host capable of producing the sweetener in large quantities. Compositions of this sweetener with other sweeteners are also disclosed.

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patent: 5326580 (1994-07-01), Hellekant et al.
patent: 5346998 (1994-09-01), Hellekant et al.
Ming, et al., "Brazzein, a natural thermostable sweet protein from Pantadiplandra brazzeana," Chemical Senses; Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences, Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A., 18(5):601, 1993.
Ming, et al., "Chemical modification of Brazzein, a sweet protein from Pentadiplandra brazzeana," Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sceinces, Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A., 19(5):521, 1994.
Yamashita, et al., "Purification and Complete Amino Acid Sequence of a New Type of Sweet Protein with Taste-modifying Activity, Curculin," J. Biolog. Chem. 265:15770-15775, 1990.
van der Wel, et al., "Isolation and characterization of pentadin the sweet principle of Pentadiplandra-brazzeana baillon," Chem. Sen.14(1):75-80, 1989.

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