Journal
CHEMICAL SENSES
Volume 36, Issue 6, Pages 527-537Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjr014
Keywords
human; L-glutamate; MSG; SNP; taste receptors; T1R1; T1R3; umami
Funding
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (PNRA-ANR) [ANR-05-PNRA-001]
- European Committee for Umami (ECU)
- European Community
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Umami is the typical taste induced by monosodium glutamate (MSG), which is thought to be detected by the heterodimeric G protein-coupled receptor, T1R1 and T1R3. Previously, we showed that MSG detection thresholds differ substantially between individuals and we further showed that nontaster and hypotaster subjects are associated with nonsynonymous single polymorphisms occurring in the T1R1 and T1R3 genes. Here, we show using functional expression that both amino acid substitutions (A110V and R507Q) in the N-terminal ligand-binding domain of T1R1 and the 2 other ones (F749S and R757C), located in the transmembrane domain of T1R3, severely impair in vitro T1R1/T1R3 response to MSG. A molecular model of the ligand-binding region of T1R1/T1R3 provides a mechanistic explanation supporting functional expression data. The data presented here support causal relations between the genotype and previous in vivo psychophysical studies in human evaluating sensitivity to MSG.
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