Editing Monellin (section)

{{short description|Protein}}
{{infobox nonhuman protein
| Name = '''Monellin Chain B'''
| caption = X-ray crystal structure of an engineered single-chain monellin protein.<ref name="pmid17329805">{{PDB|2O9U}}; {{cite journal |vauthors=Hobbs JR, Munger SD, Conn GL | title = Monellin (MNEI) at 1.15 A resolution | journal = Acta Crystallographica Section F | volume = 63 | issue = Pt 3 | pages = 162–7 |date=March 2007 | pmid = 17329805 | pmc = 2330190 | doi = 10.1107/S1744309107005271 }}</ref>
| image = hmonellin.png
| Symbol = MonB
| AltSymbols = 
| RefSeq = 
| UniProt = P02882
| PDB = 2O9U
| PDB_supplemental = 
| Organism=Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii
}}
{{infobox nonhuman protein
| Name = '''Monellin Chain A'''
| Symbol = MonA
| AltSymbols = 
| RefSeq = 
| UniProt = P02881
| PDB = 1IV7
| PDB_supplemental = 
| Organism=Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii
}}
{{Infobox protein family
|Symbol=Monellin
|InterPro=IPR015283
|Pfam=PF09200
}}
'''Monellin''', a sweet [[protein]], was discovered in 1969 in the fruit of the West African shrub known as [[serendipity berry]] (''[[Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii]]''); it was first reported as a [[carbohydrate]].<ref name="jfs-34-408">GE Inglett, JF May. Serendipity berries - Source of a new intense sweetener. J Food Sci 1969, 34:408-411.</ref> The protein was named in 1972 after the [[Monell Chemical Senses Center]] in [[Philadelphia]], U.S.A., where it was isolated and characterized.<ref name="jbc-248-534">{{cite journal |vauthors=Morris JA, Martenson R, Deibler G, Cagan RH | title = Characterization of monellin, a protein that tastes sweet | journal = J. Biol. Chem. | volume = 248 | issue = 2 | pages = 534–9 |date=January 1973 | doi = 10.1016/S0021-9258(19)44407-4 | pmid = 4684691 | doi-access = free }}</ref>