TAS2R42

Gene Information
  • Official Symbol: TAS2R42
  • Official Name: taste 2 receptor member 42
  • Aliases and Previous Symbols: N/A
  • Entrez ID: 353164
  • UniProt: Q7RTR8
  • Interactions: BioGRID
  • PubMed articles: Open PubMed
  • OMIM: Open OMIM
Function Summary
  • Entrez Summary: N/A
  • UniProt Summary: Receptor that may play a role in the perception of bitterness and is gustducin-linked. May play a role in sensing the chemical composition of the gastrointestinal content. The activity of this receptor may stimulate alpha gustducin, mediate PLC-beta-2 activation and lead to the gating of TRPM5 (By similarity). {ECO:0000250}.

Pfam Domains GO Terms


CRISPR Data

Compound Hit Most Correlated Genes in Chemogenomics Tissues where Essential in the Avana Dataset (DepMap 20Q1)

Essentiality in NALM6
  • Essentiality Rank: 13531
  • Expression level (log2 read counts): -2.01

Expression Distribution

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