Comprehensive analysis of mouse bitter taste receptors reveals different molecular receptive ranges for orthologous receptors in mice and humans

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 291, Issue 29, 2016, Pages 15358-15377

  Lossow, Kristina ^a   Hübner, Sandra ^a   Roudnitzky, Natacha ^a   Slack, Jay P ^b   Pollastro, Federica ^c   Behrens, Maik ^a   Meyerhof, Wolfgang ^a  

^a GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

^b Givaudan Roure Corporation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; GENES;

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; DETECTION AND AVOIDANCES; GENE EXPANSION; HARMFUL COMPOUNDS; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; SPECIES SPECIFICS; TASTE RECEPTORS; VARIABLE NUMBER;

MAMMALS;

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TASTE 2 RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASTE 2 RECEPTOR GENE; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TONGUE; AGONISTS; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84978401133     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M116.718544     Document Type: Article

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