Insect Odorant Receptors: Channeling Scent
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Insect Odorant Receptors: Channeling Scent
Odorant detection in insects involves heterodimers between an odorant receptor (OR) and a conserved seven-transmembrane protein called Or83b, but the exact mechanism of OR signal transduction is unclear. Two recent studies in Nature (Sato et al., 2008; Wicher et al., 2008) now reveal that these OR-Or83b heterodimers form odorant-gated ion channels, revealing a surprising new mode of olfactory t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cell
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0092-8674
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2008.05.007