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Biotechnological applications of mammalian odorant-binding proteins [PDF]

Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, 2021
The olfactory system of mammals allows the detection and discrimination of thousands of odors from the environment. In mammals, odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) are considered responsible to carry odorant molecules across the aqueous nasal mucus to the olfactory receptors (ORs).
Filipa Gonçalves, Artur Ribeiro, Carla Silva, Artur Cavaco-Paulo   +3 more
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Characterisation of Bombyx mori odorant-binding proteins reveals that a general odorant-binding protein discriminates between sex pheromone components [PDF]

Journal of Molecular Biology, 2009
In many insect species, odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) are thought to be responsible for the transport of pheromones and other semiochemicals across the sensillum lymph to the olfactory receptors (ORs) within the antennal sensilla.
Adams, Antony M. Hooper, Benton, Breer, Butenandt, Callahan, Damberger, Dobritsa, Emsley, Forstner, Forêt, Giles Robertson, Grosse-Wilde, Gräter, Gräter, Györgyi, Ha, Horst, Ishida, Jing-Jiang Zhou, John A. Pickett, Kaissling, Kajiya, Keegan, Krieger, Krieger, Krieger, Krieger, Krieger, Laue, Laughlin, Lautenschlager, Lautenschlager, Leal, Leal, Leal, Leal, Lee, Li, Linda M. Field, Maida, Maida, Maida, Malnic, McCoy, Murshudov, Nakagawa, Nicholas H. Keep, Oldham, Oldham, Pelosi, Pesenti, Pfaffl, Picimbon, Pikielny, Pophof, Ramakers, Robertson, Saitou, Samuel Dufour, Sandler, Scaloni, Shanbhag, Steinbrecht, Steinbrecht, Syed, Tamura, Thompson, Vogt, Vogt, Vogt, Vogt, Wojtasek, Xiaoli He, Xu, Zhou, Zhou, Zhou, Zhou, Zubkov   +79 more
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Odorant Receptors and Odorant-Binding Proteins as Insect Pest Control Targets: A Comparative Analysis

Frontiers in Physiology, 2018
Recently, two alternative targets in insect periphery nerve system have been explored for environmentally-friendly approaches in insect pest management, namely odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) and odorant receptors (ORs).
Herbert Venthur, Herbert Venthur, Jing-Jiang Zhou, Jing-Jiang Zhou   +3 more
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Odorant-Binding Proteins as Sensing Elements for Odour Monitoring

Sensors, 2018
Odour perception has been the object of fast growing research interest in the last three decades. Parallel to the study of the corresponding biological systems, attempts are being made to model the olfactory system with electronic devices.
Paolo Pelosi, Jiao Zhu, Wolfgang Knoll
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Kinetics of Odorant Recognition with a Graphene-Based Olfactory Receptor Mimicry

Chemosensors, 2022
Malaria vector mosquito species rely on a handful of specific pheromones for mating; one of them, sulcatone (6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one), is also found in human exudation.
Caroline Bonazza, Klaus Bonazza
doaj   +1 more source

Antennal Transcriptome Analysis and Identification of Candidate Chemosensory Genes of the Harlequin Ladybird Beetle, Harmonia axyridis (Pallas) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)

Insects, 2021
In predatory ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), antennae are important for chemosensory reception used during food and mate location, and for finding a suitable oviposition habitat.
Gabriele Rondoni, Alessandro Roman, Camille Meslin, Nicolas Montagné, Eric Conti, Emmanuelle Jacquin-Joly   +5 more
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Proteome response of Tribolium castaneum larvae to Bacillus thuringiensis toxin producing strains. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Susceptibility of Tribolium castaneum (Tc) larvae was determined against spore-crystal mixtures of five coleopteran specific and one lepidopteran specific Bacillus thuringiensis Cry toxin producing strains and those containing the structurally unrelated ...
Estefanía Contreras, Carolina Rausell, M Dolores Real   +2 more
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The Wire Is Not the Territory: Understanding Representational Drift in Olfaction With Dynamical Systems Theory

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Representational drift is a phenomenon of increasing interest in the cognitive and neural sciences. While investigations are ongoing for other sensory cortices, recent research has demonstrated the pervasiveness in which it occurs in the piriform cortex for olfaction.
Ann‐Sophie Barwich, Gabriel J. Severino   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Odorant Binding and Conformational Dynamics in the Odorant-binding Protein [PDF]

Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2006
In mammals, the olfactory epithelium secretes odorant-binding proteins (OBPs), which are lipocalins found freely dissolved in the mucus layer protecting the olfactory neurons. OBPs may act as passive transporters of predominantly hydrophobic odorant molecules across the aqueous mucus layer, or they may play a more active role in which the olfactory ...
Hajjar, Eric, Perahia, David, Débat, Hélène, Nespoulous, Claude, Robert, Charles H.   +4 more
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Identification of male- and female-specific olfaction genes in antennae of the oriental fruit fly (Bactrocera dorsalis) [PDF]

, 2016
The oriental fruit fly (Bactrocera dorsalis) is a species of tephritid fruit fly, endemic to Southeast Asia but also introduced to many regions of the US, and it is one of the major pest species with a broad host range of cultivated and wild fruits ...
Lei, Zhongren, Liu, Zhao, Smagghe, Guy, Wang, Jin-Jun   +3 more
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