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      Tas1r3, encoding a new candidate taste receptor, is allelic to the sweet responsiveness locus Sac.

      Nature genetics
      Alleles, Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Chromosome Mapping, Chromosomes, genetics, Humans, Isoenzymes, isolation & purification, Mice, Models, Molecular, Molecular Sequence Data, Phospholipase C beta, Receptors, AMPA, Receptors, Calcium-Sensing, Receptors, Cell Surface, Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, Species Specificity, Sweetening Agents, Taste, Taste Buds, chemistry, ultrastructure, Transducin, Type C Phospholipases

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          The ability to taste the sweetness of carbohydrate-rich foodstuffs has a critical role in the nutritional status of humans. Although several components of bitter transduction pathways have been identified, the receptors and other sweet transduction elements remain unknown. The Sac locus in mouse, mapped to the distal end of chromosome 4 (refs. 7-9), is the major determinant of differences between sweet-sensitive and -insensitive strains of mice in their responsiveness to saccharin, sucrose and other sweeteners. To identify the human Sac locus, we searched for candidate genes within a region of approximately one million base pairs of the sequenced human genome syntenous to the region of Sac in mouse. From this search, we identified a likely candidate: T1R3, a previously unknown G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) and the only GPCR in this region. Mouse Tas1r3 (encoding T1r3) maps to within 20,000 bp of the marker closest to Sac (ref. 9) and, like human TAS1R3, is expressed selectively in taste receptor cells. By comparing the sequence of Tas1r3 from several independently derived strains of mice, we identified a specific polymorphism that assorts between taster and non-taster strains. According to models of its structure, T1r3 from non-tasters is predicted to have an extra amino-terminal glycosylation site that, if used, would interfere with dimerization.

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