ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021
Bitter taste receptors of the common vampire bat are functional and show conserved responses to metal ions
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- Rapid expansion and specialization of the TAS2R bitter taste receptor family in amphibians.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
- The Remarkable Diversity of Vertebrate Bitter Taste Receptors: Recent Advances in Genomic and Functional Studies.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Membrane-bound chemoreception of bitter bile acids and peptides is mediated by the same subset of bitter taste receptors.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2024Article
- Adenosine triphosphate overrides the aversive effect of antifeedants and toxicants: a model alternative phagostimulant for sugar-based vector control tools.Parasites & vectors · 2023Article
- Physiological activation of human and mouse bitter taste receptors by bile acids.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Bitter taste receptors of the zebra finch (Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Activation Spectra of Human Bitter Taste Receptors Stimulated with Cyclolinopeptides Corresponding to Fresh and Aged Linseed Oil.Journal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2022Article
- Overlapping activation pattern of bitter taste receptors affect sensory adaptation and food perception.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
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Abstract
The bitter taste sensation is important to warn mammals of the ingestion of potentially toxic food compounds. For mammals, whose nutrition relies on highly specific food sources, such as blood in the case of vampire bats, it is unknown if bitter sensing is involved in prey selection. By contrast to other bat species, vampire bats exhibit numerous bitter taste receptor pseudogenes, which could point to a decreased importance of bitter taste. However, electrophysiological and behavioural studies suggest the existence of functional bitter taste transmission. To determine the agonist spectra of the three bitter taste receptors that are conserved in all three vampire bat species, we investigated the
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