Trpm5

Summary

Gene Symbol: Trpm5
Description: transient receptor potential cation channel, subfamily M, member 5
Alias: 9430099A16Rik, LTrpC-5, Ltrpc5, Mtr1, MLSN1- and TRP-related gene 1 protein, long transient receptor potential channel 5, long transient receptor potential-related channel 5, transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily M member 5
Species: mouse

Top Publications

  1. ncbi A transient receptor potential channel expressed in taste receptor cells
    Cristian A Perez
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York University, Box 1677, 1425 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10029, USA
    Nat Neurosci 5:1169-76. 2002
  2. ncbi Nasal chemosensory cells use bitter taste signaling to detect irritants and bacterial signals
    Marco Tizzano
    Rocky Mountain Taste and Smell Center, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:3210-5. 2010
  3. ncbi Trpm5 null mice respond to bitter, sweet, and umami compounds
    Sami Damak
    Department of Neuroscience, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave L Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA
    Chem Senses 31:253-64. 2006
  4. ncbi Mouse taste cells with G protein-coupled taste receptors lack voltage-gated calcium channels and SNAP-25
    Tod R Clapp
    Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
    BMC Biol 4:7. 2006
  5. ncbi Olfactory neurons expressing transient receptor potential channel M5 (TRPM5) are involved in sensing semiochemicals
    Weihong Lin
    Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:2471-6. 2007
  6. ncbi The transduction channel TRPM5 is gated by intracellular calcium in taste cells
    Zheng Zhang
    Department of Biological Sciences and Program in Neuroscience, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
    J Neurosci 27:5777-86. 2007
  7. ncbi TRPM5, a taste-signaling transient receptor potential ion-channel, is a ubiquitous signaling component in chemosensory cells
    Silke Kaske
    Philipps University Marburg, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Marburg, Germany
    BMC Neurosci 8:49. 2007
  8. ncbi Abnormal taste perception in mice lacking the type 3 inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor
    Chihiro Hisatsune
    Laboratory for Developmental Neurobiology, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2 1 Hirosawa, Wako City, Saitama 351 0198, Japan
    J Biol Chem 282:37225-31. 2007
  9. ncbi TRPM5-expressing solitary chemosensory cells respond to odorous irritants
    Weihong Lin
    Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
    J Neurophysiol 99:1451-60. 2008
  10. ncbi Heat activation of TRPM5 underlies thermal sensitivity of sweet taste
    Karel Talavera
    Laboratorium voor Fysiologie, Campus Gasthuisberg, KU Leuven, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium
    Nature 438:1022-5. 2005

Scientific Experts

  • Weihong Lin
  • K Talavera
  • A Sclafani
  • Ivan E de Araujo
  • Silke Kaske
  • Tod R Clapp
  • T Enklaar
  • Chihiro Hisatsune
  • Yuri A Blednov
  • Celine E Riera
  • Robert F Margolskee
  • Zaza Kokrashvili
  • Minqing Rong
  • Dan Liu
  • Cristian A Perez
  • Bedrich Mosinger
  • Yuzo Ninomiya
  • Keiko Yasumatsu
  • Zheng Zhang
  • Sami Damak
  • Pin Liu
  • Yoichiro Shindo
  • Tatsuya Ogura
  • Xueying Ren
  • Marco Tizzano
  • Yijen A Huang
  • Lili R Brixel
  • Barbara Colsoul
  • Susanne Staaf
  • Tadahiro Ohkuri
  • Albino J Oliveira-Maia
  • Masato S Ota
  • Heather R Devantier
  • Gaetan Barbet
  • Rudi Vennekens
  • Bernd Nilius
  • Thomas Voets
  • Hideaki Oike
  • Nico Ruf
  • Nina D Ullrich
  • M Paulsen
  • S Engemann
  • Emily R Liman
  • Thomas Hofmann
  • Galina V Fitzpatrick
  • Stephanie Croasdell
  • Kana Morishita
  • Eiichi Kotake
  • Tomomasa Kanda
  • Yoshihide Hayashizaki
  • Hirohito Miura
  • Bhavik P Shah
  • Piero Carninci
  • Yuko Kusakabe
  • Akihiro Hino
  • Jun Kawai
  • Timothy A Gilbertson
  • Reinhold Penner
  • Brian D Gulbransen
  • Frederic Marmigere
  • Anica Schraenen
  • Catherine W Yeckel
  • Claudia S Ingenbrandt
  • Kurt Krosnowski
  • Jozélia G Ferreira
  • Stephen D Roper
  • Leentje Van Lommel
  • Sara J Shammah-Lagnado
  • H Yatsuki
  • J Walter
  • Wayne L Silver
  • Marina C M Franck
  • Mahealani K Monteilh-Zoller
  • Hiruy M Sibhatu
  • Thomas E Finger
  • Mair E A Churchill
  • Ligang Zhou
  • M Strödicke
  • Lana Zhang
  • Bernhard U Zabel
  • Mikhael Bekkerman
  • Frans C Schuit
  • Dirk Prawitt
  • Jake P Herman
  • Jan P Mattsson
  • Roel Quintens
  • O Franck
  • Patrick Gilon
  • R Reinhardt
  • Andrei Segal

Detail Information

Publications45

  1. ncbi A transient receptor potential channel expressed in taste receptor cells
    Cristian A Perez
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York University, Box 1677, 1425 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10029, USA
    Nat Neurosci 5:1169-76. 2002
    ..Among the differentially expressed clones, one encoded Trpm5, a member of the mammalian family of transient receptor potential (TRP) channels...
  2. ncbi Nasal chemosensory cells use bitter taste signaling to detect irritants and bacterial signals
    Marco Tizzano
    Rocky Mountain Taste and Smell Center, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:3210-5. 2010
    ..Genetic ablation of either G alpha-gustducin or TrpM5, essential elements of the T2R transduction cascade, eliminates the trigeminal response...
  3. ncbi Trpm5 null mice respond to bitter, sweet, and umami compounds
    Sami Damak
    Department of Neuroscience, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave L Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA
    Chem Senses 31:253-64. 2006
    b>Trpm5 is a calcium-activated cation channel expressed selectively in taste receptor cells...
  4. ncbi Mouse taste cells with G protein-coupled taste receptors lack voltage-gated calcium channels and SNAP-25
    Tod R Clapp
    Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
    BMC Biol 4:7. 2006
    ..in subsets of Type II cells: T1R3-GFP mice were used to identify sweet- and umami-sensitive taste cells, while TRPM5-GFP mice were used to identify all cells that utilize the PLC signaling pathway for transduction...
  5. ncbi Olfactory neurons expressing transient receptor potential channel M5 (TRPM5) are involved in sensing semiochemicals
    Weihong Lin
    Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:2471-6. 2007
    ..that a downstream signaling component of the phospholipase C pathway, the transient receptor potential channel M5 (TRPM5), is coexpressed with the cyclic nucleotide-gated channel subunit A2 in a subset of mature OSNs...
  6. ncbi The transduction channel TRPM5 is gated by intracellular calcium in taste cells
    Zheng Zhang
    Department of Biological Sciences and Program in Neuroscience, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
    J Neurosci 27:5777-86. 2007
    ..second-messenger cascade involving gustducin, phospholipase C beta2, and the transient receptor potential M5 (TRPM5) ion channel...
  7. ncbi TRPM5, a taste-signaling transient receptor potential ion-channel, is a ubiquitous signaling component in chemosensory cells
    Silke Kaske
    Philipps University Marburg, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Marburg, Germany
    BMC Neurosci 8:49. 2007
    ..b>TRPM5 is known to be abundantly expressed in taste receptor cells where it participates in sweet, amino acid and bitter ..
  8. ncbi Abnormal taste perception in mice lacking the type 3 inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor
    Chihiro Hisatsune
    Laboratory for Developmental Neurobiology, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2 1 Hirosawa, Wako City, Saitama 351 0198, Japan
    J Biol Chem 282:37225-31. 2007
    ..We conclude that IP3R3 is a principal mediator of sweet, bitter, and umami taste perception and would be a missing molecule linking phospholipase C beta2 to TRPM5 activation.
  9. ncbi TRPM5-expressing solitary chemosensory cells respond to odorous irritants
    Weihong Lin
    Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
    J Neurophysiol 99:1451-60. 2008
    ..a large population of solitary chemosensory cells expressing the transient receptor potential channel M5 (TRPM5) using transgenic mice where the promoter of TRPM5 drives the expression of green fluorescent protein (GFP)...
  10. ncbi Heat activation of TRPM5 underlies thermal sensitivity of sweet taste
    Karel Talavera
    Laboratorium voor Fysiologie, Campus Gasthuisberg, KU Leuven, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium
    Nature 438:1022-5. 2005
    b>TRPM5, a cation channel of the TRP superfamily, is highly expressed in taste buds of the tongue, where it has a key role in the perception of sweet, umami and bitter tastes...
  11. ncbi TRPM5-expressing microvillous cells in the main olfactory epithelium
    Weihong Lin
    Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
    BMC Neurosci 9:114. 2008
    ..We previously found that in a mouse strain in which the TRPM5 promoter drives expression of the green fluorescent protein (GFP), a population of ciliated olfactory sensory ..
  12. ncbi Mtr1, a novel biallelically expressed gene in the center of the mouse distal chromosome 7 imprinting cluster, is a member of the Trp gene family
    T Enklaar
    Children s Hospital, University of Mainz, Langenbeckstrasse 1, Mainz, D 55101, Germany
    Genomics 67:179-87. 2000
    We recently described a novel putative Ca(2+) channel gene, MTR1, which shows a high level of homology to the human TRPC7 gene and the melastatin 1 (MLSN1) gene, another Trp (transient receptor potential protein)-related gene whose ..
  13. ncbi TRPM5 is a voltage-modulated and Ca(2+)-activated monovalent selective cation channel
    Thomas Hofmann
    Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21215, USA
    Curr Biol 13:1153-8. 2003
    ..One member of this subfamily, TRPM5, functions in taste receptor cells and has been reported to be activated through G protein-coupled receptors ..
  14. ncbi Sequence and comparative analysis of the mouse 1-megabase region orthologous to the human 11p15 imprinted domain
    P Onyango
    Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
    Genome Res 10:1697-710. 2000
    ..This study provides the first global view of the architecture of an entire imprinted domain and provides candidate sequence elements for subsequent functional analyses...
  15. ncbi Intracellular Ca2+ and the phospholipid PIP2 regulate the taste transduction ion channel TRPM5
    Dan Liu
    Department of Biological Sciences and Program in Neuroscience, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:15160-5. 2003
    ..The ion channel, TRPM5, is an essential component of this cascade; however, the mechanism by which it is activated is not known...
  16. ncbi Loss of high-frequency glucose-induced Ca2+ oscillations in pancreatic islets correlates with impaired glucose tolerance in Trpm5-/- mice
    Barbara Colsoul
    Laboratory of Ion Channel Research and Gene Expression Unit, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B 3001 Louvain, Belgium
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:5208-13. 2010
    ..We propose that TRPM5, a Ca(2+)-activated monovalent cation channel, is a positive regulator of glucose-induced insulin release...
  17. ncbi Nicotine activates TRPM5-dependent and independent taste pathways
    Albino J Oliveira-Maia
    Instituto de Histologia e Embriologia, Faculdade de Medicina and Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, 4200 319 Porto, Portugal
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:1596-601. 2009
    ..Here, rats and mice were used to determine whether nicotine activates peripheral and central taste pathways via TRPM5-dependent mechanisms, which are essential for responses to other bitter tastants such as quinine, and/or via ..
  18. ncbi Multiple sweet receptors and transduction pathways revealed in knockout mice by temperature dependence and gurmarin sensitivity
    Tadahiro Ohkuri
    Graduate School of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812 8582, Japan
    Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 296:R960-71. 2009
    ..involves taste receptor type 1, member 2 (T1R2), taste receptor type 1, member 3 (T1R3), gustducin, and TRPM5. Because knockout (KO) mice lacking T1R3, gustducin's Galpha subunit (Galphagust), or TRPM5 exhibited greatly ..
  19. ncbi Sensory attributes of complex tasting divalent salts are mediated by TRPM5 and TRPV1 channels
    Celine E Riera
    Nestle Research Center, Vers chez les Blanc, CH 1000 Lausanne, Switzerland
    J Neurosci 29:2654-62. 2009
    ..in wild-type (WT) mice and in mice lacking (1) the T1R3 receptor, (2) TRPV1, the capsaicin receptor, or (3) the TRPM5 channel, the latter being necessary for the perception of sweet, bitter, and umami tasting stimuli...
  20. ncbi FXYD6, a Na,K-ATPase regulator, is expressed in type II taste cells
    Yoichiro Shindo
    Research Laboratories for Health and Gustatory Science, Asahi Breweries, Ltd, Midori, Moriya, Japan
    Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 75:1061-6. 2011
    ..showed that Fxyd6 was coexpressed with transient receptor potential cation channel, subfamily M, member 5 (Trpm5), a critical component of the sweet, bitter, and umami taste signal transduction pathways and that it was ..
  21. ncbi Release of endogenous opioids from duodenal enteroendocrine cells requires Trpm5
    Zaza Kokrashvili
    Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
    Gastroenterology 137:598-606, 606.e1-2. 2009
    ..We studied a subset of these enteroendocrine cells in duodenum that produce several peptides, including endogenous opioids, and that also express the Trpm5 cation channel.
  22. ncbi Transient receptor potential channel type M5 is essential for fat taste
    Pin Liu
    Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322, USA
    J Neurosci 31:8634-42. 2011
    ..elicits a robust intracellular calcium rise via the activation of transient receptor potential channel type M5 (TRPM5)...
  23. ncbi Combined in silico and in vivo analyses reveal role of Hes1 in taste cell differentiation
    Masato S Ota
    Section of Molecular Craniofacial Embryology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
    PLoS Genet 5:e1000443. 2009
    ..Thus, according to our composite analyses, Hes1 is likely to play a role in orchestrating taste cell differentiation in developing taste buds...
  24. ncbi Adding efficiency: the role of the CAN ion channels TRPM4 and TRPM5 in pancreatic islets
    Thorsten Enklaar
    Centre for Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Guetenberg University, Mainz, Germany
    Islets 2:337-8. 2010
    ..Recently two calcium activated nonselective (CAN) cation channels (TRPM4 and TRPM5) have been shown to influence efficient insulin response upon glucose stimulation...
  25. ncbi Intracellular Ca(2+) and TRPM5-mediated membrane depolarization produce ATP secretion from taste receptor cells
    Yijen A Huang
    Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA
    J Physiol 588:2343-50. 2010
    ..Taste-evoked ATP secretion is absent in receptor cells isolated from TRPM5 knockout mice or in taste cells from wild type mice where current through TRPM5 channels has been eliminated...
  26. ncbi Dynamic expression of the TRPM subgroup of ion channels in developing mouse sensory neurons
    Susanne Staaf
    Department of Bioscience, AstraZeneca R and D Molndal, 431 83 Mölndal, Sweden
    Gene Expr Patterns 10:65-74. 2010
    ..For most channels, the expression increased from E14 to adult with the exception of TRPM5, which displayed transient high levels during embryonic and early postnatal stages...
  27. ncbi Nutrient selection in the absence of taste receptor signaling
    Xueying Ren
    The John B Pierce Laboratory, New Haven, Connecticut 06519, USA
    J Neurosci 30:8012-23. 2010
    ..Here we show that Trpm5(-/-) mice, which lack the cellular mechanisms required for sweet and several forms of l-amino acid taste ..
  28. ncbi Chemoreception regulates chemical access to mouse vomeronasal organ: role of solitary chemosensory cells
    Tatsuya Ogura
    Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 5:e11924. 2010
    ..These SCCs express transient receptor potential channel M5 (TRPM5) and the phospholipase C (PLC) beta2 signaling pathway...
  29. ncbi TRPM5 regulates glucose-stimulated insulin secretion
    Lili R Brixel
    Centre for Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Obere Zahlbacher Str 63, 55131 Mainz, Germany
    Pflugers Arch 460:69-76. 2010
    ..b>TRPM5 is a cation channel expressed in beta-cells and proposed to be involved in coupling intracellular Ca(2+) release ..
  30. ncbi Quantitative assessment of TRPM5-dependent oral aversiveness of pharmaceuticals using a mouse brief-access taste aversion assay
    Heather R Devantier
    Discovery Research, Redpoint Bio Corporation, Ewing, NJ 08628, USA
    Behav Pharmacol 19:673-82. 2008
    ..T2R G-protein coupled receptors through a peripheral signaling pathway critically dependent upon function of the TRPM5 ion channel...
  31. ncbi Sequence conservation and variability of imprinting in the Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome gene cluster in human and mouse
    M Paulsen
    Max Planck Institut fur Molekulare Genetik, Ihnestrabetae 73, D 14195 Berlin, Germany
    Hum Mol Genet 9:1829-41. 2000
    ..Third, two of the orthologous gene pairs Tssc4/TSSC4 and Ltrpc5/LTRPC5 showed apparent differences in imprinting between human and mouse, whereas others like Tssc6/TSSC6 were not ..
  32. ncbi Sequence and functional comparison in the Beckwith-Wiedemann region: implications for a novel imprinting centre and extended imprinting
    S Engemann
    Max Planck Institut fur Molekulare Genetik, Ihnestrasse 73, D 14195 Berlin, Germany
    Hum Mol Genet 9:2691-706. 2000
    ..One of the genes outside the cluster, Obph1, is imprinted in mouse placenta indicating that at least in extra-embryonic tissues the imprinting cluster extends into a larger domain...
  33. ncbi Regional loss of imprinting and growth deficiency in mice with a targeted deletion of KvDMR1
    Galina V Fitzpatrick
    Department of Cancer Genetics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA
    Nat Genet 32:426-31. 2002
    ..These findings support the hypothesis that loss of methylation in BWS patients activates the repressive function of KvDMR1 on the maternal chromosome, resulting in abnormal silencing of CDKN1C and the development of BWS...
  34. ncbi Comparison of functional properties of the Ca2+-activated cation channels TRPM4 and TRPM5 from mice
    Nina D Ullrich
    Laboratorium voor Fysiologie, Department of Physiology, Campus Gasthuisberg, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium
    Cell Calcium 37:267-78. 2005
    ..TRPM4 and TRPM5, two Ca2+-activated cation channels of the TRP superfamily, are potential molecular correlates of NSC channels...
  35. ncbi Extracellular acid block and acid-enhanced inactivation of the Ca2+-activated cation channel TRPM5 involve residues in the S3-S4 and S5-S6 extracellular domains
    Dan Liu
    Division of Neurobiology, Department of Biological Sciences and Program in Neuroscience, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
    J Biol Chem 280:20691-9. 2005
    b>TRPM5, a member of the superfamily of transient receptor potential ion channels, is essential for the detection of bitter, sweet, and amino acid tastes...
  36. ncbi Signal transduction of umami taste: insights from knockout mice
    Minqing Rong
    Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA
    Chem Senses 30:i33-4. 2005
  37. ncbi Expression profiling of uniparental mouse embryos is inefficient in identifying novel imprinted genes
    Nico Ruf
    Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin Buch, Germany
    Genomics 87:509-19. 2006
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  38. ncbi Arachidonic acid can function as a signaling modulator by activating the TRPM5 cation channel in taste receptor cells
    Hideaki Oike
    Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113 8657, Japan
    Biochim Biophys Acta 1761:1078-84. 2006
    ..As a result of activation of G protein and phospholipase Cbeta2, the TRPM5 channel is activated...
  39. ncbi Perception of sweet taste is important for voluntary alcohol consumption in mice
    Y A Blednov
    Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, 1 University Station A4800, Austin, TX 78712 0159, USA
    Genes Brain Behav 7:1-13. 2008
    ..each lacking a gene expressed in taste buds and critical to taste transduction: alpha-gustducin (Gnat3), Tas1r3 or Trpm5. Null mutant mice lacking any of these three genes showed lower preference score for alcohol and consumed less ..
  40. ncbi Fat and carbohydrate preferences in mice: the contribution of alpha-gustducin and Trpm5 taste-signaling proteins
    Anthony Sclafani
    Dept of Psychology, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA
    Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 293:R1504-13. 2007
    b>Trpm5 and alpha-gustducin are key to the transduction of tastes of sugars, amino acids, and bitter compounds...
  41. ncbi The taste transduction channel TRPM5 is a locus for bitter-sweet taste interactions
    Karel Talavera
    Laboratory of Ion Channel Research, Dept of Molecular Cell Biology, Herestraat 49, Campus Gasthuisberg, O and N1, KU Leuven, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium
    FASEB J 22:1343-55. 2008
    ..Here we report that TRPM5, a cation channel involved in sweet taste transduction, is inhibited by quinine (EC(50)=50 microM at -50 mV) owing ..
  42. ncbi Food reward in the absence of taste receptor signaling
    Ivan E de Araujo
    Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
    Neuron 57:930-41. 2008
    ..Here we show that trpm5-/- mice, which lack the cellular machinery required for sweet taste transduction, can develop a robust preference ..
  43. ncbi The calcium-activated nonselective cation channel TRPM4 is essential for the migration but not the maturation of dendritic cells
    Gaetan Barbet
    Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U699, Paris, France
    Nat Immunol 9:1148-56. 2008
    ..Our results establish TRPM4-regulated Ca(2+) homeostasis as crucial for DC mobility but not maturation and emphasize that DC maturation and migration are independently regulated...
  44. ncbi Sequence-based structural features between Kvlqt1 and Tapa1 on mouse chromosome 7F4/F5 corresponding to the Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome region on human 11p15.5: long-stretches of unusually well conserved intronic sequences of kvlqt1 between mouse and huma
    H Yatsuki
    Department of Biochemistry, Saga Medical School, Saga, Japan
    DNA Res 7:195-206. 2000
    ..Many expressed sequence tags (ESTs) were mapped on this locus. Three genes, Lit1 (Kvlqt1-AS), Mtr1 and Tssc4, were identified and characterized...

Research Grants15

  1. Intraspecific chemosignals in the main olfactory system
    Weihong Lin; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..In our preliminary study, we find that a novel signaling component, Transient Receptor Potential channel M5 (TRPM5), is present in a subset of mouse mature OSNs involved in olfactory signaling of pheromones and urinary components...
  2. Intraspecific chemosignals in the main olfactory system
    Weihong Lin; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..In our preliminary study, we find that a novel signaling component, Transient Receptor Potential channel M5 (TRPM5), is present in a subset of mouse mature OSNs involved in olfactory signaling of pheromones and urinary components...
  3. Putative pheromones in the main olfactory system
    Weihong Lin; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..abstract_text> ..
  4. Neuropharmacology of Learned Food Preferences
    Anthony Sclafani; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..It will advance our understanding of the basic mechanisms involved in the development of food preferences and may provide insights into the clinical treatment of overeating and obesity. ..
  5. Biochemical and Genetic Determinants of Differences in Alcohol Consumption
    YURI BLEDNOV; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Alcantara - Austin, Texas; S. Bergeson - Austin, Texas; R. D. Mayfield - Austin, Texas; R. Davis - Houston, Texas; A. Ryabinin - Portland, Oregon; B. Tabakoff - Aurora, Colorado). ..
  6. Carbohydrate Appetite Fat Appetite and Obesity
    Anthony Sclafani; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..The findings may provide practical benefits for current attempts to alter dietary fat and carbohydrate intake and control adiposity in humans. ..