Think You Know How Smell Works? Sniff Again
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The sense of smell is mediated by GPCRs in the odorant receptor (OR) family. Greer et al. report a new family of odor detectors, MS4As, that have similar cellular localization and chemodetection ability as ORs but are not GPCRs and follow a strikingly different logic of odor coding at the periphery.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Cell
دوره 165 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016