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Gustatory sensory cells express a receptor responsive to protein breakdown products (GPR92).
Histochemistry and cell biology - 1 Aug 2013
Haid Désirée, Widmayer Patricia, Voigt Anja, Chaudhari Nirupa, Boehm Ulrich, Breer Heinz
Abstract excerpt
The ingestion of dietary protein is of vital importance for the maintenance of fundamental physiological processes. The taste modality umami, with its prototype stimulus, glutamate, is considered to signal the protein content of food. Umami was thought to be mediated by the heterodimeric amino acid receptor, T1R1 + T1R3. Based on knockout studies, additional umami receptors are likely to exist. In addition to...
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