Gγ13 colocalizes with gustducin in taste receptor cells and mediates IP3 responses to bitter denatonium

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1055-1062

  Huang, Liquan ^a,b   Shanker, Y Gopi ^a,b   Dubauskaite, Jolanta ^a,b   Zheng, Jenny Z ^a,b,c   Yan, Wentao ^d   Rosenweig, Sophia ^d   Spielman, Andrew I ^d   Max, Marianna ^b   Margolskee, Robert F ^a,b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; INOSITOL TRISPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; DENATONIUM SACCHARIDE; G PROTEIN BETA GAMMA; G-PROTEIN BETA GAMMA; GNAT3 PROTEIN, RAT; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN BETA SUBUNIT; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN GAMMA SUBUNIT; HETEROTRIMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; INOSITOL 1,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE; ISOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOLIPASE C BETA; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; TRANSDUCIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASTE; TASTE BUD; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYMOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TONGUE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN BETA SUBUNITS; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN GAMMA SUBUNITS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HETEROTRIMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; INOSITOL 1,4,5-TRISPHOSPHATE; ISOENZYMES; LINGUAL FRENUM; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; PROTEIN BINDING; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TASTE; TASTE BUDS; TRANSDUCIN;

EID: 0033233484     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/15981     Document Type: Article

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