Fig. 1

mOR23 expression in transgenic mouse muscles. a Schematic representation of the construct used to drive muscle-specific expression of mOR23. mOR23 was fused with rhodopsin (RHO) to increase mOR23 cell surface expression. HSA human α-skeletal actin. b mOR23 RNA levels were greatly increased in the gastrocnemius muscles of two different transgenic (TG) mouse lines compared to wild type (WT): TG1 (3302 ± 1141), TG2 (218 ± 21). Data are mean ± SEM with n = 4–6 for each genotype