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unusual facts about taste receptor


Taste receptor

Gustducin is the most common taste Gα subunit, having a major role in TAS2R bitter taste reception.


Xia Li

She and her collaborator Dr. Joseph Brand concluded that modern cats have lost function in an obsolete taste receptor, removing the ability to taste sweets, unlike their prehistoric ancestors.


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Aftertaste

However, the receptor-independent process involves the diffusion of bitter, amphiphilic chemicals like quinine across the taste receptor cell membranes.