The taste of toxicity: A quantitative analysis of bitter and toxic molecules

IUBMB Life

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 938-946

  Nissim, Ido ^a   Dagan Wiener, Ayana ^a   Niv, Masha Y ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

bitter; chemoinformatics; chemosensation; in silico; TAS2R; taste; taste prediction; toxicity

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; FLAVANONE DERIVATIVE; FLAVONE DERIVATIVE; FLAVONOID; FLAVONOL DERIVATIVE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLUCOSINOLATE; IMIDAZOLE; INDOLE; ISOQUINOLINE; PIPERIDINE; PURINE; PURINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIDINE; PYRROLIZIDINE; QUINAZOLINE DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE; QUINOLIZIDINE DERIVATIVE; SULFONAMIDE; TASTE 2 RECEPTOR; TERPENE; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; TAS2R1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DANGEROUS GOODS; HUMAN; LD50; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TASTE BUD; TOXICITY; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; PHYSIOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TASTE;

ALKALOIDS; ANIMALS; DATASETS AS TOPIC; FLAVONOIDS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LETHAL DOSE 50; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SMALL MOLECULE LIBRARIES; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TASTE; TASTE PERCEPTION;

EID: 85033577092     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: 15216551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iub.1694     Document Type: Article

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