Bitter and sweet tasting molecules: It's complicated

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 700, Issue , 2019, Pages 56-63

  Di Pizio, Antonella ^a   Ben Shoshan Galeczki, Yaron ^a   Hayes, John E ^b   Niv, Masha Y ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bitter compounds; Bitter sweet; Chemical space; GPCRs; Polypharmacology; Sweeteners

Indexed keywords

AVERSIVE AGENT; SWEETENING AGENT; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; TASTE RECEPTORS, TYPE 1; TASTE RECEPTORS, TYPE 2;

BITTER TASTE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SWEETNESS; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASTE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASTE;

EID: 85046754041     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2018.04.027     Document Type: Review

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