Subunit contributions to insect olfactory receptor function: Channel block and odorant recognition

Chemical Senses

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 781-790

  Nichols, Andrew S ^a,b   Chen, Sisi ^a   Luetje, Charles W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Insect olfactory receptors; Xenopus oocytes

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL AGENT; DMEL PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL; ODORANT; ORCO PROTEIN; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; RUTHENIUM RED; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; INSECT; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; ION CHANNELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ODORS; OOCYTES; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; XENOPUS;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 80054931188     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjr053     Document Type: Article

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