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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2010
Dennis Drayna, Potomac, MD (US);
Un-kyung Kim, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Mark Leppert, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Dennis Drayna, Potomac, MD (US);
Un-Kyung Kim, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Mark Leppert, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC (US);
The University of Utah Research Foundation, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
The invention provides isolated nucleic and amino acid sequences of a taste cell receptor that serves as a sensor for the bitter taste of phenylthiocarbamide (PTC), antibodies to such PTC taste receptor, methods of detecting such nucleic and amino acid sequences, and methods of screening for modulators of such PTC taste receptor.