Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Mirakulin" in Slovenian language version.
Sweet receptors sit on taste buds and wait for sweet molecules to come along and set them off," explained Göran Hellekant, a miraculin researcher and professor of physiology and pharmacology at the University of Minnesota. "Normally, they can only be set off by chemicals that are legitimately sweet, but miraculin may distort their shape a bit so that they become responsive to acids, instead of sugar and other sweet things.
