Thirty different chemoreceptors {bitter receptor} detect non-ionic organic compounds, such as alkaloids, including quinine and unripe-potato alkaloid {solanine}. Bitter receptors couple to G-proteins. Second messengers release calcium ions from endoplasmic reticulum. All bitter-receptor types synapse on same taste-neuron type, so people cannot discriminate among bitters. Babies can taste bitter and dislike it. Perhaps, bitter receptors evolved to detect poisons.
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