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An Expression Refinement Process Ensures Singular Odorant Receptor Gene Choice.
Current biology : CB - 25 Apr 2016
Abdus-Saboor Ishmail, Al Nufal Mohammed J, Agha Maha V, Ruinart de Brimont Marion, Fleischmann Alexander, Shykind Benjamin M
Abstract excerpt
Odorant receptor (OR) gene choice in mammals is a paradigmatic example of monogenic and monoallelic transcriptional selection, in which each olfactory sensory neuron (OSN) chooses to express one OR allele from over 1,000 encoded in the genome [1-3]. This process, critical for generation of the circuit from nose to brain [4-6], is thought to occur in two steps: a slow initial phase that randomly activates a single...
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