Taste receptor type 2 member 5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TAS2R5 gene.[3]

TAS2R5
Identifiers
AliasesTAS2R5, T2R5, taste 2 receptor member 5
External IDsOMIM: 605062 HomoloGene: 49580 GeneCards: TAS2R5
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_018980

n/a

RefSeq (protein)

NP_061853

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Location (UCSC)Chr 7: 141.79 – 141.79 Mbn/a
PubMed search[2]n/a
Wikidata
View/Edit Human

Function edit

This gene encodes a bitter taste receptor; bitter taste receptors are members of the G protein-coupled receptor superfamily and are specifically expressed by taste receptor cells of the tongue and palate epithelia. Each of these apparently intronless taste receptor genes encodes a 7-transmembrane receptor protein, functioning as a bitter taste receptor. This gene is clustered with another 3 candidate taste receptor genes on chromosome 7 and is genetically linked to loci that influence bitter perception.[3]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000127366Ensembl, May 2017
  2. ^ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  3. ^ a b "Entrez Gene: TAS2R5 taste receptor, type 2, member 5".

Further reading edit

This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.