A determinant of odorant specificity is located at the extracellular loop 2-transmembrane domain 4 interface of an anopheles gambiae odorant receptor subunit

Chemical Senses

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 761-769

  Hughes, David T ^a,c   Wang, Guirong ^b,d   Zwiebel, Laurence J ^b   Luetje, Charles W ^a  

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

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Insect; Olfaction; Receptor; Structure; Xenopus oocytes

Indexed keywords

4 METHYLBENZALDEHYDE; 4 METHYLPROPIOPHENONE; ACETOPHENONE; BENZALDEHYDE; ODORANT RECEPTOR ODORANT BINDING SUBUNIT; PARA CRESOL; PROPIOPHENONE; RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; INSECT PROTEIN; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EC50; EXTRACELLULAR LOOP 2 TRANSMEMBRANE DOMAIN 4; FEMALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; VOLTAGE CLAMP TECHNIQUE; XENOPUS LAEVIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; ODORS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SMELL; XENOPUS;

EID: 84923107538     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bju048     Document Type: Article

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