An amino-acid taste receptor

@article{Nelson2002AnAT,
  title={An amino-acid taste receptor},
  author={Greg Nelson and Jayaram Chandrashekar and Mark A. Hoon and Luxin Feng and Grace Q. Zhao and Nicholas J. P. Ryba and Charles S Zuker},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2002},
  volume={416},
  pages={199-202}
}
The sense of taste provides animals with valuable information about the nature and quality of food. Mammals can recognize and respond to a diverse repertoire of chemical entities, including sugars, salts, acids and a wide range of toxic substances. Several amino acids taste sweet or delicious (umami) to humans, and are attractive to rodents and other animals. This is noteworthy because l-amino acids function as the building blocks of proteins, as biosynthetic precursors of many biologically… 
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Pharmacology of the Umami Taste Receptor.

Activation of T1R1/T1R3 by all known umami substances evaluated and the receptor's pharmacological properties are sufficient to explain the basic human sensory experience of savory taste and it is therefore unlikely that other receptors are involved.

Receptors for the detection of L-amino acids and IMP by mouse taste sensory cells

The data indicate that synergistic and non-synergistic responses to L-amino acids and IMP are mediated by multiple receptors or possibly a receptor complex.

Taste, Chemical Biology of

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Genetics of Amino Acid Taste and Appetite.

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The receptors and coding logic for bitter taste

It is demonstrated, using a combination of genetic, behavioural and physiological studies, that T2R receptors are necessary and sufficient for the detection and perception of bitter compounds, and that differences in T2Rs between species can determine the selectivity of bitter taste responses.

Evolution of the primate glutamate taste sensor from a nucleotide sensor

Involvement of the Calcium-sensing Receptor in Human Taste Perception

This is the first report indicating a distinct function of the CaSR in human taste perception, and a large number of CaSR agonist γ-glutamyl peptides, including GSH (γ-Glu-Cys-Gly), are identified and it is demonstrated that these peptides elicit the kokumi taste.

Taste receptors for umami: the case for multiple receptors.

This work has shown that the responses to umami tastants persist in the taste cells of T1R3-knockout mice, suggesting that umami taste detection may involve multiple receptors expressed in different subsets of taste cells.
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