What is "mabinlin"

n. A sweet-tasting protein extracted from the seed of mabinlang, a Chinese plant.

Mabinlins are sweet-tasting proteins extracted from the seed of Mabinlang ( Capparis masaikai Levl.), a Chinese plant growing in Yunnan province. There are four homologues. Mabinlin-2 was first isolated in 1983 and characterised in 1993, and is the most extensively studied of the four. The other variants of mabinlin-1, -3 and -4 were discovered and characterised in 1994.