Receptor that leaves a sour taste in the mouth

Shinya Ugawa, Yuki Minami, Wei Guo, Yoshitsugu Saishin, Koichi Takatsuji, Takashi Yamamoto (), Masaya Tohyama and Shoichi Shimada
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Shinya Ugawa: Nagoya City University Medical School
Yuki Minami: Osaka University Medical School
Wei Guo: Nagoya City University Medical School
Yoshitsugu Saishin: Nagoya City University Medical School
Koichi Takatsuji: Osaka University Medical School
Takashi Yamamoto: Faculty of Human Sciences, Osaka University
Masaya Tohyama: Osaka University Medical School
Shoichi Shimada: Nagoya City University Medical School

Nature, 1998, vol. 395, issue 6702, 555-556

Abstract: Abstract The ability to detect taste stimuli results from the activation of taste receptors located in taste-bud cells. There are several gustatory transduction mechanisms, involving membrane receptors, guanine-nucleotide-binding proteins (G proteins), second messengers and ion channels1, but genes encoding taste receptors have not yet been identified. Here we identify a complementary DNA that encodes a receptor for sour tastes.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/26882

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