taste receptor, type 1, member 3

Function

• taste receptor (putative)
• TAS1R1/TAS1R3 responds to the umami taste stimulus (the taste of monosodium glutamate)
• TAS1R2/TAS1R3 recognizes diverse natural & synthetic sweeteners.
• recognition & response to the disaccharide trehalose
• forms homodimers or heterodimers with TAS1R1 & TAS1R2

Structure

• belongs to the G-protein coupled receptor 3 family TAS1R subfamily

Compartment

cell membrane

More general terms

• taste receptor, type 1

Database

• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/605865
• Kegg: http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/www_bget?hsa:8083
• Entrez gene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Graphics&list_uids=83756
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q7RTX0.html