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- Gustducin is a G protein ****ociated with taste and the gustatory system, found in some taste receptor cells. Research on the discovery and isolation of...
- sweeteners such as saccharides activate the GPCR, which releases gustducin. The gustducin then activates the molecule adenylate cyclase, which catalyzes...
- depolarize the taste cell. Gustducin is the most common taste Gα subunit, having a major role in TAS2R bitter taste reception. Gustducin is a homologue for transducin...
- encoded by the gene GNAT1. Transducin 2/Gt2α is encoded by the gene GNAT2. Gustducin/Gt3α is encoded by the gene GNAT3. The general function of Gi/o/z/t is...
- ones in the tongue. The taste receptor TAS1R3 and the taste G protein gustducin are two of the most common. These receptors sense "sweetness" on the tongue...
- his laboratory discovered gustducin, a taste cell expressed G protein. Subsequently, Margolskee has demonstrated that gustducin is critical to the transduction...
- subunit alpha-3, also known as gustducin alpha-3 chain, is a protein subunit that in humans is encoded by the GNAT3 gene. Gustducin alpha-3 chain is a subunit...
- Margolskee RF (August 1999). "Blocking taste receptor activation of gustducin inhibits gustatory responses to bitter compounds". Proceedings of the...
- Receptors in the Gastrointestinal Tract. I. Bitter taste receptors and α-gustducin in the mammalian gut". American Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver...
- The gustatory sense (taste): GPCRs in taste cells mediate release of gustducin in response to bitter-, umami- and sweet-tasting substances. The sense...