Structural activation pathways from dynamic olfactory receptor-odorant interactions

Chemical Senses

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 781-792

  Lai, Peter C ^a   Singer, Michael S ^b   Crasto, Chiquito J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ligand binding; Molecular dynamics; Olfactory receptors

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; AMINO ACID; LIGAND;

ARTICLE; LIGAND BINDING; MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RAT STRAIN; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION;

ALDEHYDES; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CARBON; CHEMORECEPTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGANDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NITROGEN; ODORS; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RATS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; RHODOPSIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELL; SOFTWARE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 27944475233     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bji070     Document Type: Article

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