TAS1R2

TAS1R2
Identifiers
AliasesTAS1R2, GPR71, T1R2, TR2, taste 1 receptor member 2
External IDsOMIM: 606226; MGI: 1933546; HomoloGene: 75323; GeneCards: TAS1R2; OMA:TAS1R2 - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_152232

NM_031873

RefSeq (protein)

NP_689418

NP_114079

Location (UCSC)Chr 1: 18.84 – 18.86 MbChr 4: 139.38 – 139.4 Mb
PubMed search[3][4]
Wikidata
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T1R2 - Taste receptor type 1 member 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TAS1R2 gene.[5]

The sweet taste receptor is predominantly formed as a dimer of T1R2 and T1R3 by which different organisms sense this taste. In songbirds, however, the T1R2 monomer does not exist, and they sense the sweet taste through the umami taste receptor (T1R1 and T1R3) as a result of an evolutionary change that it has undergone.[6]

  1. ^ a b c GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000179002Ensembl, May 2017
  2. ^ a b c GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000028738Ensembl, May 2017
  3. ^ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  4. ^ "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  5. ^ "Entrez Gene: TAS1R2 taste receptor, type 1, member 2".
  6. ^ Toda Y, Ko MC, Liang Q, Miller ET, Rico-Guevara A, Nakagita T, et al. (July 2021). "Early origin of sweet perception in the songbird radiation". Science. 373 (6551): 226–231. Bibcode:2021Sci...373..226T. doi:10.1126/science.abf6505. PMID 34244416. S2CID 235769720.