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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3 Pt 1
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-7-5
pubmed:abstractText
The tasting of bitter compounds may have evolved as a protective mechanism against ingestion of potentially harmful substances. We have identified second messengers involved in bitter taste and show here for the first time that they are rapid and transient. Using a quench-flow system, we have studied bitter taste signal transduction in a pair of mouse strains that differ in their ability to taste the bitter stimulus sucrose octaacetate (SOA); however, both strains taste the bitter agent denatonium. In both strains of mice, denatonium (10 mM) induced a transient and rapid increase in levels of the second messenger inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) with a maximal production near 75-100 ms after stimulation. In contrast, SOA (100 microM) brought about a similar increase in IP3 only in SOA-taster mice. The response to SOA was potentiated in the presence of GTP (1 microM). The GTP-enhanced SOA-response supports a G protein-mediated response for this bitter compound. The rapid kinetics, transient nature, and specificity of the bitter taste stimulus-induced IP3 formation are consistent with the role of IP3 as a second messenger in the chemoelectrical transduction of bitter taste.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0002-9513
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
270
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
C926-31
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8638676-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:8638676-Female, pubmed-meshheading:8638676-GTP-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:8638676-Guanosine Diphosphate, pubmed-meshheading:8638676-Guanosine Triphosphate, pubmed-meshheading:8638676-Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate, pubmed-meshheading:8638676-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:8638676-Male, pubmed-meshheading:8638676-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:8638676-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:8638676-Mice, Inbred Strains, pubmed-meshheading:8638676-Quaternary Ammonium Compounds, pubmed-meshheading:8638676-Second Messenger Systems, pubmed-meshheading:8638676-Species Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:8638676-Sucrose, pubmed-meshheading:8638676-Taste, pubmed-meshheading:8638676-Thionucleotides, pubmed-meshheading:8638676-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:8638676-Tongue
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Rapid kinetics of second messenger production in bitter taste.
pubmed:affiliation
Basic Science Division, New York University College of Dentistry, New York, New York, 10010, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't