| Gene Information | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name | TAS2R8 |
| Organism | Homo sapiens (Human) |
| Gene Length | 309 |
| Protein Names | Taste receptor type 2 member 8 (T2R8) (Taste receptor family B member 5) (TRB5) |
| Target Name | NA |
| Target Type | NA |
| Gene Age | 18 ( ENSG00000121314 ) 3 ( ENSG00000272712 ) 3 ( ENSG00000277316 ) |
| Evolutionary Stage | Vertebrata |
| AlphaFoldDB | Q9NYW2 |
| Gene Card | TAS2R8 |
| Uniprot ID | Q9NYW2 |
| Pfam | PF05296 |
| In ASD | no |
| Allosteric Prediction | yes (0.737146255) |
| Ortholog in Animals | Alpaca_ TAS2R8 ( ortholog_one2one ) Macaque_ TAS2R8 ( ortholog_one2one ) |
| Ohnologs | NA |
| Paralogs | TAS2R9, TAS2R7, TAS2R20, TAS2R50, TAS2R43, TAS2R14, TAS2R19, TAS2R30, TAS2R46, TAS2R13, TAS2R31, TAS2R10, TAS2R42, TAS2R3, TAS2R5, TAS2R38, TAS2R1, TAS2R41, TAS2R60, TAS2R16, TAS2R4, TAS2R39, TAS2R40 |
| Tissue | NA |
| Tissue Specificity | Expressed in subsets of taste receptor cells of the tongue and palate epithelium and exclusively in gustducin-positive cells. |
| Pharmacological Animal Models | NA |
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| PDB | NA |
| DBSNP | rs2537817 |
| Subcellular location [CC] | Membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein. |
| Mouse PG classification | NA |
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