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Taste Perception of Antidesma bunius Fruit and Its Relationships to Bitter Taste Receptor Gene Haplotypes.
Chemical senses - 24 Aug 2018
Risso Davide, Sainz Eduardo, Morini Gabriella, Tofanelli Sergio, Drayna Dennis
Abstract excerpt
It was shown more than 40 years ago that the ability to perceive the bitterness of the fruit of the Antidesma bunius tree is inversely correlated with the ability to perceive the well-studied bitter tastant phenylthiocarbamide (PTC). To determine if variants of the TAS2R38 gene, which encodes the PTC taste receptor, or variants in any of the other TAS2R bitter or TAS1R sweet receptor genes account for Antidesma...
Topics
- Adult
- Female
- Fruit
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Male
- Malpighiales
- Phenotype
- Phenylthiourea
- Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled
- Taste
- Taste Buds