Insect Odorant Receptors: Channeling Scent

Tal Soo Ha; Dean P. Smith

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2008.05.007

Insect Odorant Receptors: Channeling Scent

Tal Soo Ha, Dean P. Smith

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Abstract

Odorant detection in insects involves heterodimers between an odorant receptor (OR) and a conserved seven-transmembrane protein called Or83b, but the exact mechanism of OR signal transduction is unclear. Two recent studies in Nature (Sato et al., 2008; Wicher et al., 2008) now reveal that these OR-Or83b heterodimers form odorant-gated ion channels, revealing a surprising new mode of olfactory transduction.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	761-763
Number of pages	3
Journal	Cell
Volume	133
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2008.05.007
State	Published - May 30 2008

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