Primary Recipient

VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY

Amount

$204,149.00

Award Date

7/17/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

The goal of this research proposal is to understand the nature of the interactions between sweet proteins and sweet taste receptor (STR). Recent chimera and mutagenesis studies show that both the Venus Flytrap Module (VFTM) and Cysteine Rich Domain (CRD)