Work

Taste Receptor Genes

Year: 2007

Type: review

Abstract: In the past several years, tremendous progress has been achieved with the discovery and characterization of vertebrate taste receptors from the T1R and T2R families, which are involved in recognition of bitter, sweet, and umami taste stimuli. Individual differences in taste, at least in some cases, can be attributed to allelic variants of the T1R and T2R genes. Progress with understanding how T1R and T2R receptors interact with taste stimuli and with identifying their patterns of expression in taste cells sheds light on coding of taste information by the nervous system. Candidate mechanisms for detection of salts, acids, fat, complex carbohydrates, and water have also been proposed, but further studies are needed to prove their identity.

Source: Annual Review of Nutrition

DOI: 10.1146/annurev.nutr.26.061505.111329

Authors: Alexander A. Bachmanov, Gary K. Beauchamp

Institution: Monell Chemical Senses Center

Language: English

Topic: Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques

Subfield: Nutrition and Dietetics

Field: Nursing

Domain: Health Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

Awards: Genetics of Taste Perception, GENETICS OF ALCOHOL RELATED INGESTIVE BEHAVIORS IN MICE