Tags: Protein.
Taste receptor type 2 member 5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TAS2R5 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.