Human olfactory receptor responses to odorants.
Journal Article (Journal Article)
Although the human olfactory system is capable of discriminating a vast number of odors, we do not currently understand what chemical features are encoded by olfactory receptors. In large part this is due to a paucity of data in a search space covering the interactions of hundreds of receptors with billions of odorous molecules. Of the approximately 400 intact human odorant receptors, only 10% have a published ligand. Here we used a heterologous luciferase assay to screen 73 odorants against a clone library of 511 human olfactory receptors. This dataset will allow other researchers to interrogate the combinatorial nature of olfactory coding.
Full Text
Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Mainland, JD; Li, YR; Zhou, T; Liu, WLL; Matsunami, H
Published Date
- 2015
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 2 /
Start / End Page
- 150002 -
PubMed ID
- 25977809
Pubmed Central ID
- PMC4412152
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 2052-4463
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1038/sdata.2015.2
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- England