Implausibility of the vibrational theory of olfaction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 21, 2015, Pages E2766-E2774

  Block, Eric ^a   Jang, Seogjoo ^b   Matsunami, Hiroaki ^c   Sekharan, Sivakumar ^d   Dethier, Bérénice ^a   Ertem, Mehmed Z ^d,e   Gundala, Sivaji ^a   Pan, Yi ^f   Li, Shengju ^f   Li, Zhen ^f   Lodge, Stephene N ^a   Ozbil, Mehmet ^d   Jiang, Huihong ^f   Penalba, Sonia F ^a   Batista, Victor S ^d   Zhuang, Hanyi ^f,g  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^g INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Cyclopentadecanone; Electron transfer; Isotopomers; Muscone; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

ACETOPHENONE; BENZALDEHYDE; DEUTERIUM; LIGAND; MUSCONE; OR5AN1 RECEPTOR; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RECEPTOR; SILICA GEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARBON; CYCLOALKANE DERIVATIVE; MONOUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; MUSK; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMICAL BINDING; CONDUCTANCE; DONOR SITE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROGEN BOND; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; OLFACTION VIBRATIONAL THEORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; THEORY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; HEK293 CELL LINE; ISOMERISM; METABOLISM; MOUSE; ODOR; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; VIBRATION;

ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CYCLOPARAFFINS; DEUTERIUM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FATTY ACIDS, MONOUNSATURATED; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; ISOMERISM; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ODORS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SMELL; VIBRATION;

EID: 84930226629     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1503054112     Document Type: Article

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