Discovery to Commercial Scale

Unique Taste Masking

Complimyx® Bitter Receptor Blocker – Bittermyx® BB68

  • Produced by Senomyx (San Diego)
  • Improves palatability of many bitter ingredients in pharmaceuticals and foods
  • Functions by inhibiting specific human bitter taste receptor(s) on tongue
  • Heat and pH stable
  • Improve existing formulations, Develop new formulations
  • Does not require increasing sweetener or flavor load
  • FEMA GRAS, JECFA approval

Development Services

  • Exclusive Bitter Receptors Screening Service
  • Determine the potency and efficacy drugs, drug products, and reference compounds against the 22 human TAS2R bitterness receptors
  • Host cells have been constructed that contain a clone of the receptor, the coupling G-protein, and a fluorescent reporter.
  • Binding of a bitter compound to a TAS2R leads to activation of the signal transduction pathway and an increase in fluorescence, enabling generation of dose-response data.
  • Available to test per API per receptor for response as well as testing against proprietary antagonists