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A Gr receptor is required for response to the sugar trehalose in taste neurons of Drosophila.
Nature neuroscience - 1 Dec 2001
Dahanukar A, Foster K, van der Goes van Naters W M, Carlson J R
Abstract excerpt
We recently identified from the Drosophila genome database a large family of G protein-coupled receptor genes, the Gr genes, and predicted that they encode taste receptors on the basis of their structure and specificity of expression. The expression of Gr genes in gustatory neurons has subsequently been confirmed and 56 family members have been reported. Here we provide functional evidence that one Gr gene, Gr5a,...
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