The receptors and coding logic for bitter taste

Nature

Volumn 434, Issue 7030, 2005, Pages 225-229

  Mueller, Ken L ^a   Hoon, Mark A ^b   Erlenbach, Isolde ^b   Chandrashekar, Jayaram ^a   Zuker, Charles S ^a   Ryba, Nicholas J P ^b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD PRODUCTS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PROTEINS; SENSORS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

BITTER COMPOUNDS; BITTER SENSORS; BITTER TASTE DETECTION; G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTORS (GPCR);

SENSORY PERCEPTION;

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; PROTEIN T2R; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BEHAVIOR;

ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; FOOD QUALITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SWEETNESS; TASTE; TASTE BUD; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FOOD PREFERENCE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PALATE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STIMULATION; TONGUE;

ANIMALS; FOOD PREFERENCES; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PALATE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TASTE; TONGUE;

EID: 15044353688     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03352     Document Type: Article

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