What Are Taste Receptors?
The bitter taste receptor is a G protein-coupled receptor that is encoded by TAS2R16.
Bitter taste receptor
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- Chinese name
- Bitter taste receptor
- Foreign name
- bitter taste receptor
- Definition
- G protein-coupled receptor
- principal
- Coding by TAS2R16
- The bitter taste receptor is a G protein-coupled receptor that is encoded by TAS2R16.
- The bitter taste receptor is a G protein-coupled receptor that is encoded by TAS2R16.
- Positive selection of bitter taste receptors:
- By sequencing the bitter taste receptors of people of different races, the researchers found some important characteristics about positive selection. The common ancestor of those who share the N172 subtype receptor is speculated to appear in the middle of the Pleistocene, this time before the early humans left Africa. The authors speculate that it is likely that the identification of bitter toxins is an evolutionarily critical ability for humans to adapt to different environments; it may also be because of this that this receptor has been shown to be positively selective.