TAS2R42

Taste receptor, type 2, member 42
Identifiers
Symbols	TAS2R42; T2R24; T2R55; TAS2R55; hT2R55
External IDs	OMIM: 613966 MGI: 2681280 HomoloGene: 52298 IUPHAR: TAS2R42 GeneCards: TAS2R42 Gene
Gene Ontology Molecular function • G-protein coupled receptor activity Cellular component • integral to membrane Biological process • sensory perception of taste Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	353164	387356
Ensembl	ENSG00000186136	ENSMUSG00000057699
UniProt	Q7RTR8	Q7M708
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_181429.1	NM_207030.1
RefSeq (protein)	NP_852094.1	NP_996913.1
Location (UCSC)	Chr 12: 11.34 – 11.34 Mb	Chr 6: 132.96 – 132.96 Mb
PubMed search	[1]	[2]

Taste receptor, type 2, member 42 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TAS2R42 gene.

Further reading

• Fischer A, Gilad Y, Man O, Pääbo S (2005). "Evolution of bitter taste receptors in humans and apes.". Mol. Biol. Evol. 22 (3): 432–6. doi:10.1093/molbev/msi027. PMID 15496549.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2002). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932. //www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC139241/.
• Go Y, Satta Y, Takenaka O, Takahata N (2005). "Lineage-specific loss of function of bitter taste receptor genes in humans and nonhuman primates.". Genetics 170 (1): 313–26. doi:10.1534/genetics.104.037523. PMC 1449719. PMID 15744053. //www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1449719/.
• Scherer SE, Muzny DM, Buhay CJ, et al. (2006). "The finished DNA sequence of human chromosome 12.". Nature 440 (7082): 346–51. doi:10.1038/nature04569. PMID 16541075.