Signal transduction of Umami taste: Insights from knockout mice

Chemical Senses

Volumn 30 SUPPL. 1, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Rong, Minqing ^a   He, Wei ^a   Yasumatsu, Keiko ^b   Kokrashvili, Zaza ^a   Perez, Cristian A ^a   Mosinger, Bedrich ^a   Ninomiya, Yuzo ^b   Margolskee, Robert F ^a   Damak, Sami ^a,c  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gustducin; Nerve recordings; T1r3; Taste; Transducin; Transgenic mice; Trpm5; Umami

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GUSTDUCIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; PHOSPHOLIPASE C BETA2; TRANSDUCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BITTER TASTE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CONFERENCE PAPER; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; ORGANOLEPTIC PROPERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SWEETNESS; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TASTE PREFERENCE; TONGUE; UMAMI TASTE;

5'-GUANYLIC ACID; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; GLUTAMIC ACID; INOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHOSPHATES; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASTE; TASTE BUDS; TONGUE; TRANSDUCIN;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 30744451022     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjh099     Document Type: Conference Paper

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