Molecular biology of mammalian bitter ta
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Wolfgang Meyerhof; Stephan Born; Anne Brockhoff; Maik Behrens
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Article
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2011
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## ABSTRACT Bitter taste prevents mammals from ingesting food potentially contaminated with bitterβtasting toxins, which are frequent and structurally diverse. It is mediated by a family of heptahelical G proteinβcoupled receptors, called taste 2 receptors or TAS2Rs or T2Rs. The number of __TAS2R__