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The molecular basis for water taste in Drosophila

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  • Peter Cameron

    (16 Barker Hall)

  • Makoto Hiroi

    (16 Barker Hall)

  • John Ngai

    (Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and Functional Genomics Laboratory, 142 Life Sciences Addition)

  • Kristin Scott

    (16 Barker Hall
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA)

Abstract

A taste for water Animals must detect water in their environment to stay alive, but how they do it has remained unclear. Now PPK28, a member of the degenerin/epithelial sodium channel family, has been identified as the water taste receptor in Drosophila melanogaster. Other proteins of this family have been implicated in the detection of mechanical and salt stimuli.

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  • Peter Cameron & Makoto Hiroi & John Ngai & Kristin Scott, 2010. "The molecular basis for water taste in Drosophila," Nature, Nature, vol. 465(7294), pages 91-95, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:465:y:2010:i:7294:d:10.1038_nature09011
    DOI: 10.1038/nature09011
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