TABLE 6.
Gastro-intestinal expression of sweet taste signaling molecules.
| Organ | T1R2 | T1R3 | T2R | Gαgust | PLCβ2 | TRPM5 | GLUT/SGLT | KATP | Species | Source |
| Oeso- phagus | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| low | low | Human | Young et al., 2009 | |||||||
| Stomach | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Mouse | Hass et al., 2007; Kaske et al., 2007; Bezençon et al., 2008; Hass et al., 2010; Janssen et al., 2011; Widmayer et al., 2011; Sakata et al., 2012 |
| Intestine | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| low | Human | Bezençon et al., 2007; Jang et al., 2007; Young et al., 2009 | ||||||||
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Mouse | Dyer et al., 2005; Margolskee et al., 2007; Janssen et al., 2011 | ||||
| ✓ | ✓ | Rat | Kuhre et al., 2015 | |||||||
| Colon | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Human | Taniguchi, 2004; Rozengurt et al., 2006 | |||||
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| low | Mouse | Bezençon et al., 2008; Reimann et al., 2008 | ||||||||
| ✓ | ||||||||||
| low | Rat | Jie et al., 2015 | ||||||||
| Pancreas | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Human | Prawitt et al., 2003; Taniguchi, 2004 | ||||
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Mouse | Prawitt et al., 2003; Nakagawa et al., 2009; Colsoul et al., 2010; Nakagawa et al., 2014 | |||
| ✓ | ✓ | Rat | Cook and Hales, 1984; Inagaki et al., 1995; Vos et al., 1995 | |||||||
Methods included: PCR (Prawitt et al., 2003; Dyer et al., 2005; Rozengurt et al., 2006; Margolskee et al., 2007; Bezençon et al., 2008; Nakagawa et al., 2009; Young et al., 2009; Widmayer et al., 2011; Sakata et al., 2012), in situ hybridization (Hass et al., 2007; Margolskee et al., 2007), immunohistochemistry (Taniguchi, 2004; Rozengurt et al., 2006; Hass et al., 2007; Jang et al., 2007; Kaske et al., 2007; Margolskee et al., 2007; Bezençon et al., 2008; Colsoul et al., 2010; Janssen et al., 2011; Widmayer et al., 2011), biochemical measurement (Kuhre et al., 2015), or transcriptome analysis (Jie et al., 2015).