Insights into a receptor that lets insects sense scents
In insects, odorant receptor proteins form membrane ion channels that open on binding to an odorant molecule. The structures of an inactive and an active channel lend insights into how insects detect and distinguish between odours. Snapshots of an insect odorant-gated channel in open and closed stat...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Nature (London) 2021-09, Vol.597 (7874), p.37-39 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | In insects, odorant receptor proteins form membrane ion channels that open on binding to an odorant molecule. The structures of an inactive and an active channel lend insights into how insects detect and distinguish between odours.
Snapshots of an insect odorant-gated channel in open and closed states. |
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| ISSN: | 0028-0836 1476-4687 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/d41586-021-02076-7 |