TAS2R5

TAS2R5
Identifiers
Aliases	TAS2R5, T2R5, taste 2 receptor member 5
External IDs	HomoloGene: 49580 GeneCards: TAS2R5
Gene ontology Molecular function • G-protein coupled receptor activity • signal transducer activity • taste receptor activity • bitter taste receptor activity Cellular component • plasma membrane • membrane • integral component of membrane Biological process • chemosensory behavior • G-protein coupled receptor signaling pathway • detection of chemical stimulus involved in sensory perception of bitter taste • sensory perception of taste • signal transduction • response to stimulus Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	54429	n/a
Ensembl	ENSG00000127366	n/a
UniProt	Q9NYW4	n/a
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_018980	n/a
RefSeq (protein)	NP_061853	n/a
Location (UCSC)	Chr 7: 141.79 – 141.79 Mb	n/a
PubMed search		n/a
Wikidata
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Taste receptor type 2 member 5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TAS2R5 gene.

Function

This gene encodes a bitter taste receptor; bitter taste receptors are members of the G protein-coupled receptor superfamily and are specifically expressed by taste receptor cells of the tongue and palate epithelia. Each of these apparently intronless taste receptor genes encodes a 7-transmembrane receptor protein, functioning as a bitter taste receptor. This gene is clustered with another 3 candidate taste receptor genes on chromosome 7 and is genetically linked to loci that influence bitter perception.

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, Hoon MA, Ryba NJ, Zuker CS (2007). "The receptors and cells for mammalian taste.". Nature. 444 (7117): 288–94. doi:10.1038/nature05401. PMID 17108952. 
• Dias Neto E, Correa RG, Verjovski-Almeida S, Briones MR, Nagai MA, da Silva W, Zago MA, Bordin S, Costa FF, Goldman GH, Carvalho AF, Matsukuma A, Baia GS, Simpson DH, Brunstein A, de Oliveira PS, Bucher P, Jongeneel CV, O'Hare MJ, Soares F, Brentani RR, Reis LF, de Souza SJ, Simpson AJ (2000). "Shotgun sequencing of the human transcriptome with ORF expressed sequence tags.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 (7): 3491–6. doi:10.1073/pnas.97.7.3491. PMC 16267. PMID 10737800. 
• Adler E, Hoon MA, Mueller KL, Chandrashekar J, Ryba NJ, Zuker CS (2000). "A novel family of mammalian taste receptors.". Cell. 100 (6): 693–702. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80705-9. PMID 10761934. 
• Chandrashekar J, Mueller KL, Hoon MA, Adler E, Feng L, Guo W, Zuker CS, Ryba NJ (2000). "T2Rs function as bitter taste receptors.". Cell. 100 (6): 703–11. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80706-0. PMID 10761935. 
• Firestein S (2000). "The good taste of genomics.". Nature. 404 (6778): 552–3. doi:10.1038/35007167. PMID 10766221. 
• Matsunami H, Montmayeur JP, Buck LB (2000). "A family of candidate taste receptors in human and mouse.". Nature. 404 (6778): 601–4. doi:10.1038/35007072. PMID 10766242. 
• Zhang Y, Hoon MA, Chandrashekar J, Mueller KL, Cook B, Wu D, Zuker CS, Ryba NJ (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. 
• 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. 
• 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. PMID 15744053. 

This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.