TAS2R50

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Taste receptor, type 2, member 50
Identifiers
Symbols	TAS2R50; MGC138305; T2R51
External IDs	OMIM: 609627 HomoloGene: 88474 GeneCards: TAS2R50 Gene
Gene Ontology Molecular function • receptor activity • G-protein coupled receptor activity Cellular component • membrane • integral to membrane Biological process • signal transduction • G-protein coupled receptor protein signaling pathway • response to stimulus • sensory perception of taste Sources: Amigo / EGO
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	259296	n/a
Ensembl	ENSG00000212126	n/a
UniProt	P59544	n/a
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_176890	n/a
RefSeq (protein)	NP_795371	n/a
Location (UCSC)	Chr 12: 11.14 - 11.14 Mb	n/a
PubMed search	[1]	n/a

Taste receptor type 2 member 50 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TAS2R50 gene.

TAS2R50 belongs to the large TAS2R receptor family. TAS2Rs are expressed on the surface of taste receptor cells and mediate the perception of bitterness through a G protein-coupled second messenger pathway (Conte et al., 2002). See also TAS2R10 (MIM 604791).[supplied by OMIM]

See also

• Taste receptor

Further reading

• 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. 
• 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)

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