Chemoreception: Tasting the sweet and the bitter
Abstract
Our understanding of the molecular basis of taste transduction has lagged behind that of other senses, but now a signalling protein - the G protein α subunit gustducin - has been shown to be taste-tissue specific and essential for both bitter and sweet tastes.
- Publication:
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Current Biology
- Pub Date:
- October 1996
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0960-9822(96)00704-X
- Bibcode:
- 1996CBio....6.1234L