Method for screening taste-modulating compounds

US7465550B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• The Regents of the University of California · US
• The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services · US

Inventors

• Charles S. Zuker · San Diego, US
• Jon Elliot Adler · San Diego, US
• Nicholas J. P. Ryba · Bethesda, US
• Ken Mueller · San Diego, US
• Mark Hoon · Kensington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 7, 2004
• Grant date: Dec 16, 2008
• Expiry date: Nov 16, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2333/726
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention provides nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for a novel family of taste transduction G-protein coupled receptors, antibodies to such receptors, methods of detecting such nucleic acids and receptors, and methods of screening for modulators of taste transduction G-protein coupled receptors.