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Teasing Out a Tongue's Taste Receptors
Two newly discovered proteins may help the tongue taste bitter and sweet substances.
References:
Hoon, M.A. . . . N.J.P. Ryba, and C.S. Zuker. Putative mammalian taste receptors: A class of taste-specific GPCRs with distinct topographic selectivity. Cell 96(Feb. 19):541.
Further Readings:
Kinnamon, S.C. 1996. A bitter-sweet beginning. Nature 381(June 27):737.
Seppa, N. 1998. Nailing down pheromones in humans. Science News 153(March 14):164.
Sources:
Alan R. Hirsch
Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, Ltd.
Water Tower Place
845 North Michigan Avenue
Suite 990W
Chicago, IL 60611
Nicholas J.P. Ryba
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Bethesda, MD 20892
Charles S. Zuker
University of California, San Diego
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Departments of Biology and Neurosciences
La Jolla, CA 92093-0649
From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 9, February 27, 1999, p. 132. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.
