Sour Comes After A Lemon Has Gone

Friday, June 6, 2008 - 08:21 in Biology & Nature

Scientists found that a sour taste receptor, PKD1L3-PKD2L1 channel complex, could be activated by acid stimulus but opened gate only after the removal of acid stimulus. They call this new type of response as "off-response" of sour taste receptor.

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