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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Jerusalem, Jerusalem, IL

2021-03 to present | Full Professor (Tenured)
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Masha Niv

Hebrew University Rehovot Campus: Rehovot, IL

2014 to 2021-03 | Associate Professor (tenured) (The Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition)
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Masha Niv

Hebrew University Rehovot Campus: Rehovot, IL

2007 to 2014 | Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer (The Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition)
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Hebrew University Rehovot Campus: Rehovot, IL

2017 to 2021-02 | Vice Dean for Research (The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment)
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Funding (4)

Structure-guided discovery of high affinity TAS2R14 ligands

2019 to 2022 | Grant
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Erlangen, DE)
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Masha Niv

Bitter molecules: chemical space, perceptual variation in humans, and underlying 3D differences among TAS2R variants

2016 to 2019 | Grant
Israel Science Foundation (Jerusalem, IL)
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Masha Niv

Combining Biomimetic Micro/Nano Sensors with Chemoinformatics, Molecular Modeling and Sensory Studies Towards Better Understanding of Taste and Smell Sensation

2016 to 2019 | Grant
Israel Science Foundation (Jerusalem, IL)
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Masha Niv

Tasting sweetness: novel sweeteners and enhancers

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Israel Science Foundation (Jerusalem, Israel, IL)
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Masha Niv

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A bio. tools collection of online resources for GPCR research

British Journal of Pharmacology
2025-02-24 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/bph.17461
Contributors: Tõnis Laasfeld; Friederike Wunsch; Avgi E. Apostolakou; Adrián García‐Recio; Gáspár Pándy‐Szekeres; Slawomir Filipek; Masha Y. Niv; Jana Selent; David E. Gloriam; Marcel Bermudez
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BitterDB: 2024 update on bitter ligands and taste receptors

Nucleic Acids Research
2025-01-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae1044
Contributors: Evgenii Ziaikin; Moran David; Sofya Uspenskaya; Masha Y Niv
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BitterMasS: Predicting Bitterness from Mass Spectra

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
2024-05-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.3c09767
Contributors: Evgenii Ziaikin; Edisson Tello; Devin G. Peterson; Masha Y. Niv
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The dark sides of the GPCR tree ‐ research progress on understudied GPCRs

British Journal of Pharmacology
2024-02-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/bph.16325
Contributors: Magdalena M. Scharf; Laura J. Humphrys; Sandra Berndt; Antonella Di Pizio; Juliane Lehmann; Ines Liebscher; Alessandro Nicoli; Masha Y. Niv; Lior Peri; Hannes Schihada et al.
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Text-based predictions of COVID-19 diagnosis from self-reported chemosensory descriptions

Communications Medicine
2023-07-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s43856-023-00334-5
Contributors: Hongyang Li; Richard C. Gerkin; Alyssa Bakke; Raquel Norel; Guillermo Cecchi; Christophe Laudamiel; Masha Y. Niv; Kathrin Ohla; John E. Hayes; Valentina Parma et al.
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Bitter Odorants and Odorous Bitters: Toxicity and Human TAS2R Targets

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
2023-06-14 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.3c00592
Contributors: Eitan Margulis; Tatjana Lang; Anne Tromelin; Evgenii Ziaikin; Maik Behrens; Masha Y. Niv
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T1R3 subunit of the sweet taste receptor is activated by D2O in transmembrane domain-dependent manner

2023-02-28 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.28.530404
Contributors: Natalie Ben Abu; Yaron Ben Shoshan-Galeczki; Einav Malach; Masha Y. Niv
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Sensitivity of human sweet taste receptor subunits T1R2 and T1R3 to activation by glucose enantiomers

Chemical Senses
2023-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjad005
Contributors: Nitzan Dubovski; Yaron Ben-Shoshan Galeczki; Einav Malach; Masha Y Niv
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The T1R3 subunit of the sweet taste receptor is activated by D2O in transmembrane domain-dependent manner

Chemical Senses
2023-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjad032
Contributors: Natalie Ben Abu; Yaron Ben Shoshan-Galeczki; Einav Malach; Masha Y. Niv
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A Simple Taste Test for Clinical Assessment of Taste and Oral Somatosensory Function—The “Seven-iTT”

Life
2022-12-25 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/life13010059
Contributors: Mariano Mastinu; Michał Pieniak; Anne Wolf; Tomer Green; Antje Hähner; Masha Y. Niv; Thomas Hummel
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Sensitivity of human sweet taste receptor subunits T1R2 and T1R3 to activation by glucose enantiomers

2022-12-19 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2022.12.19.520966
Contributors: Nitzan Dubovski; Yaron Ben-Shoshan Galezcki; Einav Malach; Masha Y. Niv
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Subjective assessment and taste strips testing of gustatory function, at home, and in the lab

2022-09-13 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2022.09.11.507407
Contributors: Tomer Green; Anne Wolf; Anna Oleszkiewicz; Anna Aronis; Thomas Hummel; Marta Y Pepino; Masha Y Niv
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Harnessing Food Product Reviews for Personalizing Sweetness Levels

Foods
2022-06-24 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/foods11131872
Contributors: Kim Asseo; Masha Y. Niv
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A follow-up on quantitative and qualitative olfactory dysfunction and other symptoms in patients recovering from COVID-19 smell loss.

Rhinology
2022-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.4193/rhin21.415
PMID: 35398877
Contributors: Ohla K; Veldhuizen MG; Green T; Hannum ME; Bakke AJ; Moein ST; Tognetti A; Postma EM; Pellegrino R; Hwang DLD et al.
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The taste of the pandemic—contemporary review on the current state of research on gustation in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19)

International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology
2022-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/alr.22902
Contributors: Constantin A. Hintschich; Masha Y. Niv; Thomas Hummel
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BitterMatch: Recommendation systems for matching molecules with bitter taste receptors

2022-01-15 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2022.01.13.476205
Contributors: Eitan Margulis; Yuli Slavutsky; Tatjana Lang; Maik Behrens; Yuval Benjamini; Masha Y. Niv
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Intense bitterness of molecules: Machine learning for expediting drug discovery

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2020.12.030
Contributors: Eitan Margulis; Ayana Dagan-Wiener; Robert S. Ives; Sara Jaffari; Karsten Siems; Masha Y. Niv
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Increasing incidence of parosmia and phantosmia in patients recovering from COVID-19 smell loss

2021-08 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2021.08.28.21262763
PPR: PPR388996
Contributors: Ohla K; Veldhuizen MG; Green T; Hannum ME; Bakke AJ; Moein ST; Tognetti A; Postma EM; Pellegrino R; Hwang L et al.
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Bitter-Tasting Amino Acids l-Arginine and l -Isoleucine Differentially Regulate Proton Secretion via T2R1 Signaling in Human Parietal Cells in Culture

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.9b06285
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2-s2.0-85082097254

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15205118 00218561
Contributors: Stoeger, V.; Holik, A.-K.; Hölz, K.; Dingjan, T.; Hans, J.; Ley, J.P.; Krammer, G.E.; Niv, M.Y.; Somoza, M.M.; Somoza, V.
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Functions of Opsins in Drosophila Taste

Current Biology
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.01.068
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2-s2.0-85083309817

Part of ISBN:

18790445 09609822
Contributors: Leung, N.Y.; Thakur, D.P.; Gurav, A.S.; Kim, S.H.; Di Pizio, A.; Niv, M.Y.; Montell, C.
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Onset, duration, and persistence of taste and smell changes and other COVID-19 symptoms: longitudinal study in Israeli patients

2020-09-27 | Other
DOI: 10.1101/2020.09.25.20201343
Contributors: Hadar Klein; Kim Asseo; Noam Karni; Yuval Benjamini; Ran Nir-Paz; Mordechai Muszkat; Sarah Israel; Masha Y. Niv
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Sweet chirality: the taste of l- and d-glucose stereoisomers

2020-08-17 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2020.08.16.252718
Contributors: Nitzan Dubovski; Yaron Ben Shoshan-Galeczki; Einav Malach; Masha Y Niv
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Structure-based screening for discovery of sweet compounds

Food Chemistry
2020-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2020.126286
Contributors: Yaron Ben Shoshan-Galeczki; Masha Y. Niv
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Intense bitterness of molecules: machine learning for expediting drug discovery

2020-06-26 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2020.06.24.168914
Contributors: Eitan Margulis; Ayana Dagan-Wiener; Robert S. Ives; Sara Jaffari; Karsten Siems; Masha Y. Niv
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Utility and limitations of Google searches on sensory loss as markers for new COVID-19 cases

2020-05-11 | Other
DOI: 10.1101/2020.05.07.20093955
Contributors: Kim Asseo; Fabrizio Fierro; Yuli Slavutsky; Johannes Frasnelli; Masha Y Niv
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Rational design of agonists for bitter taste receptor TAS2R14: from modeling to bench and back

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
2020-02-24 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-019-03194-2
Contributors: Antonella Di Pizio; Lukas A. W. Waterloo; Regine Brox; Stefan Löber; Dorothee Weikert; Maik Behrens; Peter Gmeiner; Masha Y. Niv
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A bioinspired in vitro bioelectronic tongue with human T2R38 receptor for high-specificity detection of N-C=S-containing compounds

Talanta
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2019.02.021
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2-s2.0-85061637052

Part of ISBN:

00399140
Contributors: Qin, C.; Qin, Z.; Zhao, D.; Pan, Y.; Zhuang, L.; Wan, H.; Di Pizio, A.; Malach, E.; Niv, M.Y.; Huang, L. et al.
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Allostery in Its Many Disguises: From Theory to Applications

Structure
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2019.01.003
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2-s2.0-85063381900

Part of ISBN:

18784186 09692126
Contributors: Wodak, S.J.; Paci, E.; Dokholyan, N.V.; Berezovsky, I.N.; Horovitz, A.; Li, J.; Hilser, V.J.; Bahar, I.; Karanicolas, J.; Stock, G. et al.
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Author Correction: RGS7 is recurrently mutated in melanoma and promotes migration and invasion of human cancer cells (Scientific Reports, (2018), 8, 1, (653), 10.1038/s41598-017-18851-4)

Scientific Reports
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-37932-6
EID:

2-s2.0-85062622165

Part of ISBN:

20452322
Contributors: Qutob, N.; Masuho, I.; Alon, M.; Emmanuel, R.; Cohen, I.; Di Pizio, A.; Madore, J.; Elkahloun, A.; Ziv, T.; Levy, R. et al.
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Bitterdb: Taste ligands and receptors database in 2019

Nucleic Acids Research
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky974
EID:

2-s2.0-85059799078

Part of ISBN:

13624962 03051048
Contributors: Dagan-Wiener, A.; Di Pizio, A.; Nissim, I.; Bahia, M.S.; Dubovski, N.; Margulis, E.; Niv, M.Y.
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Bitterless guaifenesin prodrugs—design, synthesis, characterization, in vitro kinetics, and bitterness studies

Chemical Biology and Drug Design
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/cbdd.13409
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2-s2.0-85055572967

Part of ISBN:

17470285 17470277
Contributors: Thawabteh, A.; Lelario, F.; Scrano, L.; Bufo, S.A.; Nowak, S.; Behrens, M.; Di Pizio, A.; Niv, M.Y.; Karaman, R.
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RASA2 and NF1; two-negative regulators of Ras with complementary functions in melanoma

Oncogene
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41388-018-0578-4
EID:

2-s2.0-85057333180

Part of ISBN:

14765594 09509232
Contributors: Arafeh, R.; Di Pizio, A.; Elkahloun, A.G.; Dym, O.; Niv, M.Y.; Samuels, Y.
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Bitter and sweet tasting molecules: It's complicated

Neuroscience Letters
2019-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2018.04.027
Contributors: Antonella Di Pizio; Yaron Ben Shoshan-Galeczki; John E. Hayes; Masha Y. Niv
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Bitterness prediction in-silico: A step towards better drugs

International Journal of Pharmaceutics
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2017.03.076
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2-s2.0-85016422746

Part of ISBN:

18733476 03785173
Contributors: Bahia, M.S.; Nissim, I.; Niv, M.Y.
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Corrigendum: Independent evolution of strychnine recognition by bitter taste receptor subtypes [Front. Mol. Biosci. 5, (2018), (9)] doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2018.00009

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2018.00084
EID:

2-s2.0-85054202750

Part of ISBN:

2296889X
Contributors: Xue, A.Y.; Di Pizio, A.; Levit, A.; Yarnitzky, T.; Penn, O.; Pupko, T.; Niv, M.Y.
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Independent evolution of strychnine recognition by bitter taste receptor subtypes

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2018.00009
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2-s2.0-85042708991

Part of ISBN:

2296889X
Contributors: Xue, A.Y.; Di Pizio, A.; Levit, A.; Yarnitzky, T.; Penn, O.; Pupko, T.; Niv, M.Y.
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Molecular features underlying selectivity in chicken bitter taste receptors

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2018.00006
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2-s2.0-85041314530

Part of ISBN:

2296889X
Contributors: Di Pizio, A.; Shy, N.; Behrens, M.; Meyerhof, W.; Niv, M.Y.
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Reengineering the ligand sensitivity of the broadly tuned human bitter taste receptor TAS2R14

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2018.07.009
EID:

2-s2.0-85050119681

Part of ISBN:

18728006 03044165
Contributors: Nowak, S.; Di Pizio, A.; Levit, A.; Niv, M.Y.; Meyerhof, W.; Behrens, M.
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RGS7 is recurrently mutated in melanoma and promotes migration and invasion of human cancer cells

Scientific Reports
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18851-4
EID:

2-s2.0-85043465487

Part of ISBN:

20452322
Contributors: Qutob, N.; Masuho, I.; Alon, M.; Emmanuel, R.; Cohen, I.; Di Pizio, A.; Madore, J.; Elkahloun, A.; Ziv, T.; Levy, R. et al.
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The taste of KCl – What a difference a sugar makes

Food Chemistry
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.01.175
EID:

2-s2.0-85042136212

Part of ISBN:

18737072 03088146
Contributors: Ben Abu, N.; Harries, D.; Voet, H.; Niv, M.Y.
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Anchordock for blind flexible docking of peptides to proteins

Methods in Molecular Biology
2017 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6798-8_7
EID:

2-s2.0-85014052499

Part of ISBN:

10643745
Contributors: Slutzki, M.; Ben-Shimon, A.; Niv, M.Y.
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Biomimetic sensors for the senses: Towards better understanding of taste and Odor sensation

Sensors (Switzerland)
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/s17122881
EID:

2-s2.0-85037826733

Part of ISBN:

14248220
Contributors: Wu, C.; Du, Y.-W.; Huang, L.; Galeczki, Y.B.-S.; Dagan-Wiener, A.; Naim, M.; Niv, M.Y.; Wang, P.
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Bitter mouth-rinse affects emotions

Food Quality and Preference
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2017.04.007
EID:

2-s2.0-85018780059

Part of ISBN:

09503293
Contributors: Dubovski, N.; Ert, E.; Niv, M.Y.
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Bitter or not? BitterPredict, a tool for predicting taste from chemical structure

Scientific Reports
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-12359-7
EID:

2-s2.0-85029893239

Part of ISBN:

20452322
Contributors: Dagan-Wiener, A.; Nissim, I.; Ben Abu, N.; Borgonovo, G.; Bassoli, A.; Niv, M.Y.
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Detecting thresholds for bitter, umami, and sweet tastants in broiler chicken using a 2-choice test method

Poultry Science
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3382/ps/pex003
EID:

2-s2.0-85020161570

Part of ISBN:

15253171 00325791
Contributors: Cheled-Shoval, S.L.; Reicher, N.; Niv, M.Y.; Uni, Z.
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From cell to beak: In-vitro and in-vivo characterization of chicken bitter taste thresholds

Molecules
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/molecules22050821
EID:

2-s2.0-85020230813

Part of ISBN:

14203049
Contributors: Cheled-Shoval, S.; Behrens, M.; Korb, A.; Di Pizio, A.; Meyerhof, W.; Uni, Z.; Niv, M.Y.
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Ligand binding modes from low resolution GPCR models and mutagenesis: Chicken bitter taste receptor as a test-case

Scientific Reports
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-08344-9
EID:

2-s2.0-85027504973

Part of ISBN:

20452322
Contributors: Di Pizio, A.; Kruetzfeldt, L.-M.; Cheled-Shoval, S.; Meyerhof, W.; Behrens, M.; Niv, M.Y.
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Recombinant ostreolysin induces brown fat-like phenotype in HIB-1B cells

Molecular Nutrition and Food Research
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.201700057
EID:

2-s2.0-85020431994

Part of ISBN:

16134133 16134125
Contributors: Oren, T.; Nimri, L.; Yehuda-Shnaidman, E.; Staikin, K.; Hadar, Y.; Friedler, A.; Amartely, H.; Slutzki, M.; Pizio, A.D.; Niv, M.Y. et al.
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The taste of toxicity: A quantitative analysis of bitter and toxic molecules

IUBMB Life
2017-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/iub.1694
Contributors: Ido Nissim; Ayana Dagan‐Wiener; Masha Y. Niv
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Comparing Class A GPCRs to bitter taste receptors: Structural motifs, ligand interactions and agonist-to-antagonist ratios

Methods in Cell Biology
2016 | Book
DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2015.10.005
EID:

2-s2.0-84951743686
Contributors: Di Pizio, A.; Levitx, A.; Slutzki, M.; Behrens, M.; Karamanjj, R.; Niv, M.Y.
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