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Taste buds have a cyclic nucleotide-activated channel, CNGgust.

Authors: Misaka, T  Kusakabe, Y  Emori, Y  Gonoi, T  Arai, S  Abe, K 
Citation: Misaka T, etal., J Biol Chem 1997 Sep 5;272(36):22623-9.
RGD ID: 70687
Pubmed: PMID:9278419   (View Abstract at PubMed)

Cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) channels have been characterized as important factors involved in physiological processes including sensory reception for vision and olfaction. The possibility thus exists that a certain CNG channel functions in gustation as well. In the present study, we carried out reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and genomic DNA cloning and characterized a CNG channel (CNGgust) as a cyclic nucleotide-activated species expressed in rat tongue epithelial tissues where taste reception takes place. Several types of 5'-rapid amplification of cDNA ends clones of CNGgust cDNA were obtained with various 5'-terminal sequences. As the CNGgust gene was a single copy, the formation of such CNGgust variants should result from alternative splicing. The encoded protein was homologous to known vertebrate CNG channels with 50-80% similarities in amino acid sequence, and particularly homologous to bovine testis CNG channel and human cone CNG channel with 82% similarities. CNGgust was functional when expressed in human embryonic kidney cells, where it opened upon the addition of cGMP or cAMP. Immunohistochemical analysis using an antibody raised against a CNGgust peptide demonstrated the channel to be localized on the pore side of each taste bud in the circumvallate papillae, with no signal observed for degenerated taste buds after denervation of the glossopharyngeal nerve. All these results, together with the indication that cyclic nucleotides play a role gustatory signaling pathway(s), strongly suggest the involvement of CNGgust in taste signal transduction.



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Object SymbolSpeciesTermQualifierEvidenceWithNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
Cnga3Ratinorganic cation import across plasma membrane  IDA  RGD 

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Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Cnga3  (cyclic nucleotide gated channel subunit alpha 3)


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