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TAS2R5

Taste receptor type 2 member 5

Also known as: T2R5, TA2R5_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9NYW4
Gene
TAS2R5
Ensembl
ENSG00000127366
Chromosome
7
Canonical length
299 aa
Protein class
G-protein coupled receptors, Predicted membrane proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Nucleoli,Cytoplasmic bodies

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a bitter taste receptor; bitter taste receptors are members of the G protein-coupled receptor superfamily and are specifically expressed by taste receptor cells of the tongue and palate epithelia. Each of these apparently intronless taste receptor genes encodes a 7-transmembrane receptor protein, functioning as a bitter taste receptor. This gene is clustered with another 3 candidate taste receptor genes on chromosome 7 and is genetically linked to loci that influence bitter perception. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

299 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9NYW4|TAS2R5
     1  MLSAGLGLLM LVAVVEFLIG LIGNGSLVVW SFREWIRKFN WSSYNLIILG LAGCRFLLQW
    61  LIILDLSLFP LFQSSRWLRY LSIFWVLVSQ ASLWFATFLS VFYCKKITTF DRPAYLWLKQ
   121  RAYNLSLWCL LGYFIINLLL TVQIGLTFYH PPQGNSSIRY PFESWQYLYA FQLNSGSYLP
   181  LVVFLVSSGM LIVSLYTHHK KMKVHSAGRR DVRAKAHITA LKSLGCFLLL HLVYIMASPF
   241  SITSKTYPPD LTSVFIWETL MAAYPSLHSL ILIMGIPRVK QTCQKILWKT VCARRCWGP

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against TAS2R5 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)
0.31
Highest tissue expression
4 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • skin: 4 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 3.7 nTPM
  • ovary: 3.6 nTPM
  • cervix: 2.8 nTPM
  • fallopian tube: 2.8 nTPM
  • epididymis: 2.6 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • epicardial cells: 2.3 nCPM
  • bergmann glia: 1 nCPM
  • kupffer cells: 1 nCPM
  • thymocytes: 0.8 nCPM
  • distal convoluted tubule cells: 0.7 nCPM
  • gonadotrophs: 0.7 nCPM

Immune cell

  • T-reg: 0.2 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0.1 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 0.1 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 0.1 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 0.1 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 0.1 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebellum: 8.2 nTPM
  • white matter: 7 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 6.6 nTPM
  • midbrain: 6.5 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 6.2 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 6.2 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 LOEUF (loss-of-function intolerance)
1.53
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.08
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.01
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 5% 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 TAS2R5 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against TAS2R5 could matter depends on whether native TAS2R5 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

TAS2R5 is annotated at the cell surface, where native TAS2R5 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 TAS2R5 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/TAS2R5. 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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