Agne Babusyte | Author | SciTechnol | Cell Biology: Research & T

Agne Babusyte Author

agnebabustye@lrz.tum.de 08161-712634 | 08161-712634

Subjects of specialization
Cellular Immunology,Cell Cloning,Cell Tissue Studies,Cell Regeneration,Medicine

Affiliation
German Research Center for Food Chemistry

Biography

Agne Babusyte is a researcher in the food chemistry German Research Center for Food Chemistry ? Leibniz Institute, Physiology, Freising, Germany. Tracing Amines to their Receptors: A Synopsis in Light of Recent Literature

Publications

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Tracing Amines to their Receptors: A Synopsis in Light of Recent Literature

Author(s):

Agne Babusyte and Dietmar Krautwurst

Tracing Amines to their Receptors: A Synopsis in Light of Recent Literature

Trace amine-associated receptors (TAAR) have been an elusive species of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR), so far, mainly because of their suboptimal expression in heterologous cell systems. Little connection could be established between the namegiving low physiological concentrations of their putative amine agonists, and their tissue-specific biological function. At the same time, there is growing evidence that suggests ectopic expression of certain TAAR, beyond their supposed typical tissue expression as olfactory receptors in the olfactory epithelium, at least in mice.

DOI: 10.4172/2324-9293.1000103

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