The structural basis of odorant recognition in insect olfactory receptors.

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Olfactory systems must detect and discriminate amongst an enormous variety of odorants1. To contend with this challenge, diverse species have converged on a common strategy in which odorant identity is encoded through the combinatorial activation of large families of olfactory receptors1-3, thus allowing a finite number of receptors to detect a vast chemical world. Here we offer structural and mechanistic insight...

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