ReviewThe Journal of general physiology2014
The state of the art of odorant receptor deorphanization: a report from the orphanage.
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57 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Effects of acute intranasal allergen exposure on resident immune cells and sensory neurons in the mouse olfactory epithelium.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Ectopic Olfactory Receptors in Oral Health and Disease: Molecular Links Between Chemosensing, Tissue Repair, Inflammation, and Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
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- Full-length hybrid transcriptome of the olfactory rosette in Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis): an essential genomic resource for improving reproduction on farms.DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes · 2025Article
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- Roles of sensory receptors in non-sensory organs: the kidney and beyond.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2025Review
- Odors as cognitive constructs: history of odor classification and attempts to map odor percepts to physical and chemical parameters.Chemical senses · 2025Review
- Image-Based cAMP Sensor Assay for Analyzing Odorant Receptor Activity.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025Article
- Yellow Fluorescent Protein Quenching Assay for Analyzing Odorant Receptor Activity.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025Article
- Targeting Odorant Receptors in Adipose Tissue with Food-Derived Odorants: A Novel Approach to Obesity Treatment.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Time-course study of genetic changes in periodontal ligament regeneration after tooth replantation in a mouse model.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- M2OR: a database of olfactory receptor-odorant pairs for understanding the molecular mechanisms of olfaction.Nucleic acids research · 2024Article
- Deciphering olfactory receptor binding mechanisms: a structural and dynamic perspective on olfactory receptors.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2024Review
- High-throughput ligand profile characterization in novel cell lines expressing seven heterologous insect olfactory receptors for the detection of volatile plant biomarkers.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Human Olfactory Receptor Sensor for Odor Reconstitution.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Combining the Classification and Pharmacophore Approaches to Understand Homogeneous Olfactory Perceptions at Peripheral Level: Focus on Two Aroma Mixtures.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Expression of olfactory receptor genes in non-olfactory tissues in the developing and adult zebrafish.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Odorant Binding Causes Cytoskeletal Rearrangement, Leading to Detectable Changes in Endothelial and Epithelial Barrier Function and Micromotion.Biosensors · 2023Article
- Olfactory Receptors as an Emerging Chemical Sensing Scaffold.Biochemistry · 2023Review
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Abstract
The odorant receptors (ORs) provide our main gateway to sensing the world of volatile chemicals. This involves a complex encoding process in which multiple ORs, each of which detects its own set of odorants, work as an ensemble to produce a distributed activation code that is presumably unique to each odorant. One marked challenge to decoding the olfactory code is OR deorphanization, the identification of a set of activating odorants for a particular receptor. Here, we survey various methods used to try to express defined ORs of interest. We also suggest strategies for selecting odorants for test panels to evaluate the functional expression of an OR. Integrating these tools, while retaining awareness of their idiosyncratic limitations, can provide a multi-tiered approach to OR deorphanization, spanning the initial discovery of a ligand to vetting that ligand in a physiologically relevant setting.
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