1995
DOI: 10.1038/376080a0
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Coupling of bitter receptor to phosphodiesterase through transducin in taste receptor cells

Abstract: The rod and cone transducins are specific G proteins originally thought to be present only in photoreceptor cells of the vertebrate retina. Transducins convert light stimulation of photoreceptor opsins into activation of cyclic GMP phosphodiesterase (reviewed in refs. 5-7). A transducin-like G protein, gustducin, has been identified and cloned from rat taste cells. We report here that rod transducin is also present in vertebrate taste cells, where it specifically activates a phosphodiesterase isolated from tas… Show more

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“…Thus, their role as taste receptors is debatable. Recently, receptor-like activity stimulated by a bitter taste substance (denatonium) has been demonstrated, but not purified, from bovine lingual membranes (Ruiz-Avila et al, 1995). Our results with mGluR4 are the first to demonstrate a receptor by molecular cloning that is expressed in taste buds and not in surrounding epithelium, making it a plausible candidate for a taste receptor.…”
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confidence: 63%
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“…Thus, their role as taste receptors is debatable. Recently, receptor-like activity stimulated by a bitter taste substance (denatonium) has been demonstrated, but not purified, from bovine lingual membranes (Ruiz-Avila et al, 1995). Our results with mGluR4 are the first to demonstrate a receptor by molecular cloning that is expressed in taste buds and not in surrounding epithelium, making it a plausible candidate for a taste receptor.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 63%
“…If mGluR4 is a taste receptor, its activation by dietary glutamate would presumably trigger a second messenger cascade that could regulate the transduction of other taste stimuli. Although several G-proteins, including gustducin and transducin, are localized in taste buds Finger et al, 1995;Ruiz-Avila et al, 1995), a functional linkage with mGluRs remains to be elucidated.…”
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“…The ␣ subunit of transducins 1 (G␣ t-1 ) and 2 (G␣ t-2 ), originally thought to be expressed only in photoreceptor cells of the retina, are also present in vertebrate taste cells where they are implicated in intracellular taste signal transduction (7,8). Here, we used RT-PCR and immunohistochemistry to determine whether the transducins also are expressed in the GI mucosa.…”
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“…These putative taste receptors, which belong to the guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory protein (G protein)-coupled receptor superfamily characterized by seven putative transmembrane domains, are distantly related to V1R vomeronasal receptors and opsins (5). Genetic and biochemical evidence indicate that specific G␣ subunits, gustducin (G␣ gust ) and transducin (G␣ t ), mediate bitter and sweet gustatory signals in the taste buds of the lingual epithelium (7)(8)(9)(10)(11).…”
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