- “Proteins: Transporters of Taste Metabolites” is a reduction to only 826 of the 20,412 total proteins in the 211 human body cells (concepts exposition) in this blog post. “Translocases” and “Solute Carriers” are tabulated in earlier blog posts in this website; and, here I present the final third of “transporter” referred to as “Ion Channels”. The reduction is possible, in that to discuss food taste metabolites on proteins that transport cellular fluxes of exogenous food compounds. The pie charts above (only negative image differences) are seen as a “clockwork”.
- The 6-o’clock is VGIC 17%. The 8-o’clock is LGIC 9%. The 9-o’clock is OCI 12%. The IC in the symbolic abbreviation stands for “ion channels” in all three cases. The prefix terms are VG “voltage-gated”, LG “ligand-gated”, and O “other” ion-channels. This sum of (17 + 9+ 12)=38% is the total percentage of Ion Channels.
- At 12-o’clock SLC “solute carrier” are 48% the largest group.
- Counter-clockwise to 11:30 f-ATPase is 2%, 11-o’clock v-ATPase is 3%, 10:30 p-ATPase is 3%, 10-o’clock ABC is 6%.
- (2 + 3 + 3 + 6)=14%. This sum of 14% is the Translocase (Enzyme Commission #7) percent of the transporter proteins.
- This blog post was to change the level of “metabolites” (exogenous food compounds) to “cellular level”. The Singer-Nicolson “fluid-mosaic membrane model (model photo below) is useful; here since “proteins” (large black) are seen in lipids (small whites). The 826 transporters discussed in this blog posts are “large black” in the membrane model.
