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Tuning Insect Odorant Receptors [PDF]
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2018 Among the insect olfactory receptors the odorant receptors (ORs) evolved in parallel to the onset of insect flight. A special property of this receptor type is the capability to adjust sensitivity of odor detection according to previous odor contacts ...
Dieter Wicher
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Odorant and pheromone receptors in insects [PDF]
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2009 Since the emergence of the first living cells, survival has hinged on the ability to detect and localize chemicals in the environment. Modern animal species ranging from insects to mammals express large odorant receptor repertoires to detect the ...
TAL S HA, Dean p Smith
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First Contact to Odors: Our Current Knowledge about Odorant Receptor [PDF]
Sensors, 2008 Chemical senses – especially smell – are known to be important for the fundamental life events such as sensing predators, selecting mates, as well as finding food.
Cheil Moon +4 more
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The missense of smell: functional variability in the human odorant receptor repertoire. [PDF]
Nature Neuroscience, 2013 Humans have ~400 intact odorant receptors, but each individual has a unique set of genetic variations that lead to variation in olfactory perception. We used a heterologous assay to determine how often genetic polymorphisms in odorant receptors alter ...
Adipietro, KA +13 more
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ReceptorsOdorant receptors (ORs) constitute the largest family of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), with nearly 400 receptors identified in humans. The “omics” era has revealed an unexpected expression of ORs beyond olfactory tissues.
Rafaella G. Naressi +2 more
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Selectivity of Odorant Receptors in Insects [PDF]
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2012 Insect olfactory receptors (ORs) detect chemicals, shape neuronal physiology and regulate behavior. Although ORs have been categorized as generalists and specialists based on their ligand spectrum, both electrophysiological studies and recent ...
Jonathan Daniel Bohbot +1 more
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OlfactionBase: a repository to explore odors, odorants, olfactory receptors and odorant–receptor interactions [PDF]
Nucleic Acids Research, 2021 Abstract Olfaction is a multi-stage process that initiates with the odorants entering the nose and terminates with the brain recognizing the odor associated with the odorant. In a very intricate way, the process incorporates various components functioning together and in synchronization.
Sharma, Anju +3 more
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Odorant receptors in cancer. [PDF]
BMB Rep, 2022 Odorant receptors (ORs), the largest subfamily of G protein-coupled receptors, detect odorants in the nose. In addition, ORs were recently shown to be expressed in many nonolfactory tissues and cells, indicating that these receptors have physiological and pathophysiological roles beyond olfaction.
Chung C, Cho HJ, Lee C, Koo J.
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Structural basis of odor sensing by insect heteromeric odorant receptors. [PDF]
ScienceZhao J, Chen AQ, Ryu J, Del Mármol J.
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Onset of Odorant Receptors [PDF]
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009 Odorant receptors are thought to be critical determinants of olfactory sensory neuron axon targeting and organization. Nonetheless, a systematic characterization of the onset of odorant receptor expression has not yet been done in the main olfactory epithelium.
Diego J, Rodriguez-Gil +5 more
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