Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

TAS2R1

Taste receptor type 2 member 1

Also known as: T2R1, TA2R1_HUMAN, TRB7

Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9NYW7
Gene
TAS2R1
Ensembl
ENSG00000169777
Chromosome
5
Canonical length
299 aa
Protein class
G-protein coupled receptors, Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted membrane proteins

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a member of a family of candidate taste receptors that are members of the G protein-coupled receptor superfamily and that are specifically expressed by taste receptor cells of the tongue and palate epithelia. This intronless taste receptor gene encodes a 7-transmembrane receptor protein, functioning as a bitter taste receptor. This gene is mapped to chromosome 5p15, the location of a genetic locus (PROP) that controls the detection of the bitter compound 6-n-propyl-2-thiouracil. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

299 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9NYW7|TAS2R1
     1  MLESHLIIYF LLAVIQFLLG IFTNGIIVVV NGIDLIKHRK MAPLDLLLSC LAVSRIFLQL
    61  FIFYVNVIVI FFIEFIMCSA NCAILLFINE LELWLATWLG VFYCAKVASV RHPLFIWLKM
   121  RISKLVPWMI LGSLLYVSMI CVFHSKYAGF MVPYFLRKFF SQNATIQKED TLAIQIFSFV
   181  AEFSVPLLIF LFAVLLLIFS LGRHTRQMRN TVAGSRVPGR GAPISALLSI LSFLILYFSH
   241  CMIKVFLSSL KFHIRRFIFL FFILVIGIYP SGHSLILILG NPKLKQNAKK FLLHSKCCQ

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against TAS2R1 can act on the native protein depends on physical access: surface and secreted proteins are reachable by circulating antibodies, intracellular proteins usually are not.

Antibody reachability
Cell surface
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
7
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.3
Highest tissue expression
7 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • testis: 7 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0.4 nTPM
  • retina: 0.2 nTPM
  • fallopian tube: 0.1 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 0.1 nTPM
  • parathyroid gland: 0.1 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late spermatids: 57 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 27 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 1.7 nCPM
  • distal convoluted tubule cells: 0.5 nCPM
  • renal connecting tubule cells: 0.4 nCPM
  • decidual stromal cells: 0.3 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • basal ganglia: 3.9 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 2.9 nTPM
  • thalamus: 1.9 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 1.6 nTPM
  • white matter: 1.5 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 1.4 nTPM

Genetic constraint and essentialitygnomAD · DepMap

Does the body need this protein intact? Low LOEUF or a strong DepMap dependency means loss or blockade of the protein is likely to be felt.

gnomAD missense Z
-0.24
DepMap mean gene effect
0.08
DepMap dependency class
none

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 3% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).

OntologyGO

Biological processes

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads TAS2R1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against TAS2R1 could matter depends on whether native TAS2R1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

TAS2R1 is annotated at the cell surface, where native TAS2R1 is exposed to circulating antibodies and is a prime autoantibody target that could block, deplete, or overstimulate it.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label TAS2R1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/TAS2R1. Study-independent annotations aggregated from UniProt, Human Protein Atlas, PubMed, IEDB, Pfam, InterPro, Gene Ontology, AlphaFold, gnomAD, DepMap, ClinVar, TCGA. Catalog release seroatlas-reviewed-human-uniprot-20260313.

Seroatlas is the reference for exploring autoantibody and antibody serology at the human-protein level: the autoreactome and human serome, multiplex serology (HuProt, HuScan, VirScan, PhIP-Seq).

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