Probing insect odorant receptors with their cognate ligands: Insights into structural features

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 435, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 477-482

  Xu, Pingxi ^a   Leal, Walter S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3 Methylindole; AgamOR10; BmorOR1; Bombykol; CquiOR10; Extracellular loop

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GLYCINE; LEUCINE; PROLINE; SKATOLE; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BETA TURN; BOMBYX MORI; HYDROGEN BOND; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OOCYTE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR BINDING; TAXONOMY; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BOMBYX; CULEX; FEMALE; INSECT PROTEINS; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

BOMBYCIDAE; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 84878989575     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2013.05.015     Document Type: Article

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