UniProt functional annotation for P02883

UniProt code: P02883.

Organism: Thaumatococcus daniellii (Katemfe) (Phrynium daniellii).
Taxonomy: Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliopsida; Liliopsida; Zingiberales; Marantaceae; Thaumatococcus.
 
Function: Taste-modifying protein; intensely sweet-tasting. It is 100000 times sweeter than sucrose on a molar basis. {ECO:0000305|PubMed:3856268}.
 
Subcellular location: Cytoplasmic vesicle. Note=Thaumatin accumulates in vesicle-like organelles. {ECO:0000305}.
Similarity: Belongs to the thaumatin family. {ECO:0000255|PROSITE- ProRule:PRU00699}.

Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.