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Gustducin

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Gustducin is a G protein associated with taste and the gustatory system, found in some taste receptor cells. Research on the discovery and isolation of gustaducin is recent. It is known to play a large role in the transduction of bitter, sweet and umami stimuli. Its pathways are many and diverse.
    • Discovery 

    • Comparisons with transducin 

    • Evolution of the gustducin-mediated signaling model 

    • Bitter transduction 

    • Sweet transduction 

    • Evolution of bitter taste receptors 

    • Gustducin in the stomach