The Anopheles gambiae odorant binding protein 1 (AgamOBP1) mediates indole recognition in the antennae of female mosquitoes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Biessmann, Harald ^a   Andronopoulou, Evi ^b   Biessmann, Max R ^a   Douris, Vassilis ^b   Dimitratos, Spiros D ^c   Eliopoulos, Elias ^d   Guerin, Patrick M ^e   Iatrou, Kostas ^b   Justice, Robin W ^c,f   Kröber, Thomas ^e   Marinotti, Osvaldo ^a   Tsitoura, Panagiota ^b   Woods, Daniel F ^c   Walter, Marika F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^c Inscent Inc   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^f CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDOLE; INSECT PROTEIN; ODORANT BINDING PROTEIN 1; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; LIGAND; ODORANT BINDING PROTEIN; ODORANT-BINDING PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; ASSAY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; MALE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; INDOLES; LIGANDS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77949743740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009471     Document Type: Article

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