Recent research on cellular mechanisms of peripheral taste has defined transduction
pathways involving membrane receptors, G proteins, second messengers, and ion …

Taste cells use a wide variety of mechanisms for transduction. Ionic stimuli, such as salts
and acids, interact directly with ion channels to depolarize taste cells. More complex stimuli …

Bitter taste perception provides animals with critical protection against ingestion of
poisonous compounds. In the accompanying paper, we report the characterization of a large …

Sensory transduction for many taste stimuli such as sugars, some bitter compounds and
amino acids is thought to be mediated via G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), although …

The cloning of several receptors activated by either CC or CXC chemokines and belonging
to the G protein-coupled family of receptors has been reported recently. In the present work …

Gustducin is a transducin-like G protein selectively expressed in taste receptor cells. The α
subunit of gustducin (α-gustducin) is critical for transduction of responses to bitter or sweet …

Receptor proteins for photoreception have been studied for several decades. More recently,
putative receptors for olfaction have been isolated and characterized. In contrast, no …

THE rod and cone transducing are specific G proteins originally thought to be present only in
photoreceptor cells of the vertebrate retina1–4. Transducins convert light stimulation of …

The location of leukocytes in different microenvironments is intimately connected to their
function and, in the case of leukocyte precursors, to the executed differentiation and …

We report here the identification and characterization of murine CCX‐CKR, a high affinity
receptor for the murine β‐chemokines SLC/mCCL21, MIP‐3β/mCCL19 and TECK/mCCL25 …