A family of candidate taste receptors in human and mouse

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6778, 2000, Pages 601-604

  Matsunami, Hiroaki ^a   Montmayeur, Jean Pierre ^a   Buck, Linda B ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTIG; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; GENE; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TASTE BUD;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 12; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 5; GENE EXPRESSION; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TASTE; TASTE BUDS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034611738     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35007072     Document Type: Article

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