Bitter and sweet/umami taste receptors with differently evolutionary pathways

Acta Genetica Sinica

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 346-353

  Shi, Peng ^a,b,c   Huang, Jing Fei ^a   Zhang, Ya Ping ^a,b  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Bitter taste receptor; Evolutionary pathways; Gene fusion; Sweet umami taste receptor; Transmembrane domain

Indexed keywords

BITTER TASTE RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; SWEET TASTE RECEPTOR; UMAMI TASTE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; TASTE BUD;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TASTE;

EID: 20044362587     PISSN: 03794172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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