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JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 203-210Publisher
KOREAN SOC MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY
DOI: 10.4014/jmb.2212.12007
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L-Pyroglutamic acid; sour taste; Xenopus oocyte; two-electrode voltage clamp
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The study investigates the interaction between L-pyroglutamic acid and sour taste receptors, revealing the involvement of R299 of hPKD2L1. This finding provides a way to objectively measure the intensity of L-pyroglutamic acid and potentially create a database of taste.
Taste is classified into five types, each of which has evolved to play its respective role in mammalian survival. Sour taste is one of the important ways to judge whether food has gone bad, and the sour taste receptor (PKD2L1) is the gene behind it. Here, we investigated whether L-pyroglutamic acid interacts with sour taste receptors through electrophysiology and mutation experiments using Xenopus oocytes. R299 of hPKD2L1 was revealed to be involved in L-pyroglutamic acid binding in a concentration-dependent manner. As a result, it is possible to objectify the change in signal intensity according to the concentration of L-pyroglutamic acid, an active ingredient involved in the taste of kimchi, at the molecular level. Since the taste of other ingredients can also be measured with the method used in this experiment, it is expected that an objective database of taste can be created.
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