Summary: Thaumatin family
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| Cartoon diagram of thaumatin I. From PDB 1RQW. | |||||||||
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| Symbol | Thaumatin | ||||||||
| Pfam | PF00314 | ||||||||
| InterPro | IPR001938 | ||||||||
| SMART | SM00205 | ||||||||
| PROSITE | PDOC00286 | ||||||||
| SCOP | 1thu | ||||||||
| SUPERFAMILY | 1thu | ||||||||
| OPM superfamily | 189 | ||||||||
| OPM protein | 1aun | ||||||||
| CDD | cd09215 | ||||||||
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| Thaumatin I | |
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| Identifiers | |
| Symbol | THM1_THADA |
| PDB | 1RQW More structures |
| UniProt | P02883 |
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| Thaumatin II | |
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| Identifiers | |
| Symbol | THM2_THADA |
| UniProt | P02884 |
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Thaumatin is a low-calorie sweetener and flavour modifier. The protein is often used primarily for its flavour-modifying properties and not exclusively as a sweetener.[1]
The thaumatins were first found as a mixture of proteins isolated from the katemfe fruit (Thaumatococcus daniellii Bennett) of west Africa. Some proteins in the thaumatin family of sweeteners are roughly 2000 times more potent than sugar. Although very sweet, thaumatin's taste is markedly different from sugar's. The sweetness of thaumatin builds very slowly. Perception lasts a long time, leaving a liquorice-like aftertaste at high usage levels. Thaumatin is highly water soluble, stable to heating, and stable under acidic conditions.
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[edit] Biological role
Thaumatin production is induced in katemfe in response to an attack upon the plant by viroid pathogens. Several members of the thaumatin protein family display significant in vitro inhibition of hyphal growth and sporulation by various fungi. The thaumatin protein is considered a prototype for a pathogen-response protein domain. This thaumatin domain has been found in species as diverse as rice and Caenorhabditis elegans. Thaumatins are pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins, which are induced by various agents ranging from ethylene to pathogens, and are structurally diverse and ubiquitous in plants:[2] They include thaumatin, osmotin, tobacco major and minor PR proteins, alpha-amylase/trypsin inhibitor, and P21 and PWIR2 soybean and wheat leaf proteins. The proteins are involved in systematically acquired resistance and stress response in plants, although their precise role is unknown.[2] Thaumatin is an intensely sweet-tasting protein (on a molar basis about 100,000 times as sweet as sucrose[3]) found in the West African shrub Thaumatococcus daniellii: it is induced by attack by viroids, which are single-stranded unencapsulated RNA molecules that do not code for protein. The thaumatin protein I consists of a single polypeptide chain of 207 residues.
Like other PR proteins, thaumatin is predicted to have a mainly beta structure, with a high content of beta-turns and little helix.[2] Tobacco cells exposed to gradually increased salt concentrations develop a greatly increased tolerance to salt, due to the expression of osmotin,[4] a member of the PR protein family. Wheat plants attacked by barley powdery mildew express a PR protein (PWIR2), which results in resistance against that infection.[5] The similarity between this PR protein and other PR proteins to the maize alpha-amylase/trypsin inhibitor has suggested PR proteins may act as some form of inhibitor.[5]
The thaumatin-like proteins isolated from kiwi fruit or apple appear to have their allergenic properties minimally reduced by gastroduodenal digestive processes, but not by heating.[6][7]
[edit] Production
Within West Africa, the katemfe fruit has been locally cultivated and used to flavor foods and beverages for some time. The fruit's seeds are encased in a membranous sac, or aril, that is the source of thaumatin. In the 1970s, Tate and Lyle began extracting thaumatin from the fruit. In 1990, researchers at Unilever reported the isolation and sequencing of the two principal proteins found in thaumatin, which they dubbed thaumatin I and thaumatin II. These researchers were also able to express thaumatin in genetically engineered bacteria.
Thaumatin has been approved as a sweetener in the European Union (E957), Israel, and Japan. In the United States, it is a Generally Recognized as Safe flavoring agent (FEMA GRAS 3732).
[edit] Crystallization of thaumatin
Since thaumatin crystallizes rapidly and easily in the presence of tartrate ions, thaumatin-tartrate mixtures are frequently used as model systems to study protein crystallization. Interestingly, the solubility of thaumatin, its crystal habit, and mechanism of crystal formation is dependent upon the chirality of precipitant used. When crystallized with L- tartrate, thaumatin forms bipyramidal crystals and displays a solubility that increases with temperature; with D- and meso-tartrate, it forms stubby and prismatic crystals and displays a solubility that decreases with temperature.[8] This suggests control of precipitant chirality may be an important factor in protein crystallization in general.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Green C (1999). "Thaumatin: a natural flavour ingredient". World Rev Nutr Diet. World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics 85: 129â32. doi:10.1159/000059716. ISBN 3-8055-6938-6. PMID 10647344.
- ^ a b c Herrera-Estrella L, Ruiz-Medrano R, Jimenez-Moraila B, Rivera-Bustamante RF (1992). "Nucleotide sequence of an osmotin-like cDNA induced in tomato during viroid infection". Plant Mol. Biol. 20 (6): 1199â1202. doi:10.1007/BF00028909. PMID 1463856.
- ^ Edens L, Heslinga L, Klok R, Ledeboer MNJ, Toonen MY, Visser C, Verrips CT (1982). "Cloning of cDNA encoding the sweet-tasting plant protein thaumatin and its expression in Escherichia coli". Gene 18 (1): 1â12. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(82)90050-6. PMID 7049841.
- ^ Singh NK, Nelson DE, Kuhn D, Hasegawa PM, Bressan RA (1989). "Molecular Cloning of Osmotin and Regulation of Its Expression by ABA and Adaptation to Low Water Potential". Plant Physiol. 90 (3): 1096â1101. doi:10.1104/pp.90.3.1096. PMC 1061849. PMID 16666857.
- ^ a b Rebmann G, Mauch F, Dudler R, Hertig C, Bull J (1991). "A wheat glutathione-S-transferase gene with transposon-like sequences in the promoter region". Plant Mol. Biol. 16 (6): 1089â1091. doi:10.1007/BF00016083. PMID 1650615.
- ^ Bublin M, Radauer C, Knulst A, Wagner S, Scheiner O, Mackie AR, Mills EN, Breiteneder H., Effects of gastrointestinal digestion and heating on the allergenicity of the kiwi allergens Act d 1, actinidin, and Act d 2, a thaumatin-like protein. Mol Nutr Food Res. 2008 Oct;52(10):1130-9.
- ^ Smole U, Bublin M, Radauer C, Ebner C, Breiteneder H., Mal d 2, the thaumatin-like allergen from apple, is highly resistant to gastrointestinal digestion and thermal processing. Int Arch Allergy Immunol. 2008;147(4):289-98. Epub 2008 Jul 11.
- ^ Asherie, Ginsberg, Greenbaum, Blass and Knafo. Effects of Protein Purity and Precipitant Stereochemistry on the Crystallization of Thaumatin, Crystal Growth and Design, Volume 8, issue 12 (December 3, 2008), p. 4200-4207. ISSN: 1528-7483 DOI: 10.1021/cg800616q
[edit] Further reading
- Higginbotham JD (1986). In Gelardi RC, Nabors LO. Alternative sweeteners. New York: M. Dekker, Inc. ISBN 0-8247-7491-4.
- Higginbotham J, Witty M (1994). Thaumatin. Boca Raton: CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-5196-0.
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| HOMSTRAD: | THAUMATIN |
| PANDIT: | PF00314 |
| PRINTS: | PR00347 |
| PROSITE: | PDOC00286 |
| Pseudofam: | PF00314 |
| SCOP: | 1thu |
| SYSTERS: | Thaumatin |
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InterPro entry IPR001938
Thaumatin [PUBMED:7049841] is an intensely sweet-tasting protein, 100 000 times sweeter than sucrose on a molar basis [PUBMED:7049841] found in berries from Thaumatococcus daniellii, a tropical flowering plant known as Katemfe, it is induced by attack by viroids, which are single-stranded unencapsulated RNA molecules that do not code for protein.
Thaumatin consists of about 200 residues and contains 8 disulphide bonds. Like other PR proteins, thaumatin is predicted to have a mainly beta structure, with a high content of beta-turns and little helix [PUBMED:7049841]. Several stress-induced proteins of plants have been found to be related to thaumatins:
- A maize alpha-amylase/trypsin inhibitor
- Two tobacco pathogenesis-related proteins: PR-R major and minor forms,which are induced after infection with viruses
- Salt-induced protein NP24 from tomato
- Osmotin, a salt-induced protein from tobacco [PUBMED:16666857]
- Osmotin-like proteins OSML13, OSML15 and OSML81 from potato [PUBMED:7630973]
- P21, a leaf protein from soybean
- PWIR2, a leaf protein from wheat [PUBMED:1650615]
- Zeamatin, a maize antifunal protein [PUBMED:7846159]
This protein is also referred to as pathogenesis-related group 5 (PR5), as many thaumatin-like proteins accumulate in plants in response to infection by a pathogen and possess antifungal activity [PUBMED:1463856]. The proteins are involved in systematically acquired resistance and stress response in plants, although their precise role is unknown [PUBMED:1463856].
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| Seed source: | Prosite |
| Previous IDs: | thaumatin; |
| Type: | Domain |
| Author: | Finn RD |
| Number in seed: | 124 |
| Number in full: | 1409 |
| Average length of the domain: | 174.60 aa |
| Average identity of full alignment: | 39 % |
| Average coverage of the sequence by the domain: | 73.41 % |
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