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Chemical Senses 2005 30(Supplement 1):i16; doi:10.1093/chemse/bjh090
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Chemical Senses Vol. 30 No. suppl 1 © Oxford University Press 2005; all rights reserved

Functional Interaction between TAS2R Receptors and G-Protein {alpha} Subunits Expressed in Taste Receptor Cells

Takashi Ueda, Shinya Ugawa and Shoichi Shimada

Department of Molecular Morphology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya City University, 1 Kawasumi, Mizuho-cho, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Correspondence to be sent to: Takashi Ueda, e-mail: tueda@med.nagoya-cu.ac.jp

Key words: bitter taste, calcium imaging, T2R receptor, G{alpha}, chimera, G protein {alpha}, subunit, gustducin

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   Introduction
 
Bitter taste perception is a conserved chemical sense against the ingestion of poisonous substances in mammals. It could be mediated by G protein-coupled receptors that need the appropriate G proteins to transduce the signals. TAS2R receptors and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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