Taste receptors articles within Nature Communications

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    | Open Access

    Perception and appreciation of food flavour depends on many factors, posing a challenge for effective prediction. Here, the authors combine extensive chemical and sensory analyses of 250 commercial Belgian beers to train machine learning models that enable flavour and consumer appreciation prediction.

    • Michiel Schreurs
    • , Supinya Piampongsant
    •  & Kevin J. Verstrepen

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    | Open Access

    How the larval environment influences the sensory characteristics of the future adult is largely unknown. Here, using Drosophila as a model, the authors show that the presence of certain bacterial species during the larval stage modify the gustatory capacities of the future adult flies.

    • Martina Montanari
    • , Gérard Manière
    •  & Julien Royet

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    | Open Access

    The genetic identity of taste-responsive neurons has not been determined. The authors describe neurons in the gustatory region of the parabrachial nucleus that express the transcription factor Satb2, project to taste-associated regions, and modulate taste preferences.

    • Brooke C. Jarvie
    • , Jane Y. Chen
    •  & Richard D. Palmiter

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    | Open Access

    Taste sensilla are Drosophila sensory organs containing taste neurons, which have differential tuning for bitter compounds. Here, the authors systematically examine what combinations of gustatory receptor genes confer a specific taste response profile in different bitter taste neurons.

    • Ha Yeon Sung
    • , Yong Taek Jeong
    •  & Seok Jun Moon

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    | Open Access

    Nutrients taste perception is mediated by T1r receptors that discriminate specific tastes among their wide diversity. Here the authors present crystal structures of the ligand-binding domains of the fish T1r2-T1r3 receptor, providing a structural framework for its ligand recognition.

    • Nipawan Nuemket
    • , Norihisa Yasui
    •  & Atsuko Yamashita

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    | Open Access

    It remains unclear whether any set of the 68 gustatory receptors expressed in Drosophilacomprise a cation channel that responds to an aversive chemical. Here the authors identify three gustatory receptors that are both necessary and sufficient to form a channel that confers sensitivity to a noxious tastant.

    • Jaewon Shim
    • , Youngseok Lee
    •  & Seok Jun Moon

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