Mabinlins are sweet-tastingproteins extracted from the seed of mabinlang (Capparis masaikai Levl.), a plant growing in Yunnan province of China. There are four homologues. Mabinlin-2 was first isolated in 1983[1] and characterised in 1993,[2] and is the most extensively studied of the four. The other variants of mabinlin-1, -3 and -4 were discovered and characterised in 1994.[3]
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^Liu X, Maeda S, Hu Z, Aiuchi T, Nakaya K, Kurihara Y (January 1993). "Purification, complete amino acid sequence and structural characterization of the heat-stable sweet protein, mabinlin II". European Journal of Biochemistry. 211 (1–2): 281–7. doi:10.1111/j.1432-1033.1993.tb19896.x. PMID8425538.