Olfactory receptors

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 456-469

  Gaillard, I ^a,b   Rouquier, S ^a   Giorgi, D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Evolution; G protein coupled receptors; Genomics; Ligand recognition; Odorant receptors; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CHROMOSOME; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPITHELIUM; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; GLOMERULUS; MAMMAL; MOLECULE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NERVE FIBER; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; ODOR CONTROL; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELLING; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HUMANS; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GLOMERULUS; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 1542373566     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-003-3273-7     Document Type: Review

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