TAS2R1

Taste receptor, type 2, member 1
Identifiers
Symbols	TAS2R1 ; MGC126778; MGC126780; T2R1; TRB7
External IDs	Template:OMIM5 Template:MGI HomoloGene: 10480
Gene ontology Molecular function Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Cellular component Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Biological process Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO
RNA expression pattern
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More reference expression data
Orthologs
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Species	Human	Mouse
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Taste receptor, type 2, member 1, also known as TAS2R1, is a human gene.

This gene encodes a member of a family of candidate taste receptors that are members of the G protein-coupled receptor superfamily and that are specifically expressed by taste receptor cells of the tongue and palate epithelia. This intronless taste receptor gene encodes a 7-transmembrane receptor protein, functioning as a bitter taste receptor. This gene is mapped to chromosome 5p15, the location of a genetic locus (PROP) that controls the detection of the bitter compound 6-n-propyl-2-thiouracil.

See also

• Taste receptor

Further reading

• Kinnamon SC (2000). "A plethora of taste receptors". Neuron. 25 (3): 507–10. PMID 10774719.
• Margolskee RF (2002). "Molecular mechanisms of bitter and sweet taste transduction". J. Biol. Chem. 277 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1074/jbc.R100054200. PMID 11696554.
• Montmayeur JP, Matsunami H (2002). "Receptors for bitter and sweet taste". Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 12 (4): 366–71. PMID 12139982.
• Adler E, Hoon MA, Mueller KL; et al. (2000). "A novel family of mammalian taste receptors". Cell. 100 (6): 693–702. PMID 10761934.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Chandrashekar J, Mueller KL, Hoon MA; et al. (2000). "T2Rs function as bitter taste receptors". Cell. 100 (6): 703–11. PMID 10761935.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Firestein S (2000). "The good taste of genomics". Nature. 404 (6778): 552–3. doi:10.1038/35007167. PMID 10766221.
• Matsunami H, Montmayeur JP, Buck LB (2000). "A family of candidate taste receptors in human and mouse". Nature. 404 (6778): 601–4. doi:10.1038/35007072. PMID 10766242.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH; et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMID 12477932.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Zhang Y, Hoon MA, Chandrashekar J; et al. (2003). "Coding of sweet, bitter, and umami tastes: different receptor cells sharing similar signaling pathways". Cell. 112 (3): 293–301. PMID 12581520.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA; et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMID 15489334.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Fischer A, Gilad Y, Man O, Pääbo S (2005). "Evolution of bitter taste receptors in humans and apes". Mol. Biol. Evol. 22 (3): 432–6. doi:10.1093/molbev/msi027. PMID 15496549.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Go Y, Satta Y, Takenaka O, Takahata N (2006). "Lineage-specific loss of function of bitter taste receptor genes in humans and nonhuman primates". Genetics. 170 (1): 313–26. doi:10.1534/genetics.104.037523. PMID 15744053.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)

This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.