A Conserved Aspartic Acid Is Important for Agonist (VUAA1) and Odorant/Tuning Receptor-Dependent Activation of the Insect Odorant Co-Receptor (Orco)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Kumar, Brijesh N ^a   Taylor, Robert W ^b   Pask, Gregory M ^b   Zwiebel, Laurence J ^b,c   Newcomb, Richard D ^a,d   Christie, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; ASPARTIC ACID; CALCIUM ION; GLUTAMIC ACID; INSECT ODORANT RECEPTOR CHANNEL; ION CHANNEL; N (4 ETHYLPHENYL) 2 [(4 ETHYL 5 (3 PYRIDINYL) 4H 1,2,4 TRIAZOL 3 YL)THIO]ACETAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL STIMULATION; CELL STRAIN HEK293; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ODORANT CORECEPTOR; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PATCH CLAMP; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; WHOLE CELL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEUROIMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS;

EID: 84880721769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070218     Document Type: Article

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