Open AccessLigands for Pheromone-Sensing Neurons Are Not Conformationally Activated Odorant Binding Proteins
Author(s) -
Carolina GomezDiaz,
John H. Reina,
Christian Cambillau,
Richard Benton
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
plos biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.127
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1545-7885
pISSN - 1544-9173
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001546
Subject(s) - biology , pheromone , sex pheromone , drosophila melanogaster , ligand (biochemistry) , receptor , microbiology and biotechnology , mutant , odorant binding protein , olfaction , biochemistry , neuroscience , genetics , gene
An in vivo functional analysis of an odorant binding protein in Drosophila challenges the established model of its role in pheromone signaling.
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