TAS2R1

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Taste receptor, type 2, member 1
Identifiers
Symbols	TAS2R1; MGC126778; MGC126780; T2R1; TRB7
External IDs	OMIM: 604796 MGI: 2681253 HomoloGene: 10480 GeneCards: TAS2R1 Gene
Gene Ontology Molecular function • receptor activity • G-protein coupled receptor activity • taste receptor activity Cellular component • membrane • integral to membrane Biological process • signal transduction • G-protein coupled receptor protein signaling pathway • chemosensory behavior • response to stimulus • sensory perception of taste Sources: Amigo / EGO
RNA expression pattern
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Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	50834	57254
Ensembl	ENSG00000169777	ENSMUSG00000045267
UniProt	Q9NYW7	Q9JKT2
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_019599	NM_020503
RefSeq (protein)	NP_062545	NP_065249
Location (UCSC)	Chr 5: 9.68 - 9.68 Mb	Chr 15: 32.12 - 32.12 Mb
PubMed search	[1]	[2]

Taste receptor type 2 member 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TAS2R1 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. doi:10.1016/S0896-6273(00)81054-5. 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. doi:10.1016/S0959-4388(02)00345-8. PMID 12139982. 
• Chandrashekar J, Mueller KL, Hoon MA; et al. (2000). "T2Rs function as bitter taste receptors". Cell. 100 (6): 703–11. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80706-0. 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. 
• 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. PMC 139241 Freely accessible. 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. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(03)00071-0. 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. PMC 528928 Freely accessible. 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. PMC 1449719 Freely accessible. 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.