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GUT
Volume 58, Issue 3, Pages 337-346Publisher
B M J PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2008.148932
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- Royal Adelaide Hospital
- Institute of Medical & Veterinary Sciences
- University of Adelaide
- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC) Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Nutritional Physiology, Interventions and Outcomes
- NHMRC Australian Biomedical Fellowship
- NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship
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Objective: Nutrient feedback from the small intestine modulates upper gastrointestinal function and energy intake; however, the molecular mechanism of nutrient detection is unknown. In the tongue, sugars are detected via taste T1R2 and T1R3 receptors and signalled via the taste G-protein alpha-gustducin (G alpha(gust)) and the transient receptor potential ion channel, TRPM5. These taste molecules are also present in the rodent small intestine, and may regulate gastrointestinal function. Subjects and methods: Absolute transcript levels for T1R2, T1R3, G alpha(gust) and TRPM5 were quantified in gastrointestinal mucosal biopsies from subjects with and without type 2 diabetes; immunohistochemistry was used to locate G alpha(gust). Effects of luminal glucose on jejunal expression of taste molecules were also quantified in mice. Results: T1R2, T1R3, G alpha(gust) and TRPM5 were preferentially expressed in the proximal small intestine in humans, with immunolabelling for G alpha(gust) localised to solitary cells dispersed throughout the duodenal villous epithelium. Expression of T1R2, T1R3, TRPM5 (all p < 0.05) and G alpha(gust) (p < 0.001) inversely correlated with blood glucose concentration in type 2 diabetes subjects but, as a group, did not differ from control subjects. Transcript levels of T1R2 were reduced by 84% following jejunal glucose perfusion in mice (p, 0.05). Conclusions: Taste molecules are expressed in nutrient detection regions of the proximal small intestine in humans, consistent with a role in tasting''. This taste molecule expression is decreased in diabetic subjects with elevated blood glucose concentration, and decreased by luminal glucose in mice, indicating that intestinal taste'' signalling is under dynamic metabolic and luminal control.
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