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ArticleNucleic acids research2024

M2OR: a database of olfactory receptor-odorant pairs for understanding the molecular mechanisms of olfaction.

Maxence Lalis, Matej Hladiš, Samar Abi Khalil, Loïc Briand, Sébastien Fiorucci, Jérémie Topin

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
7.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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20 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maxence LalisInstitut de Chimie de Nice, Université Côte d'Azur, UMR 7272 CNRS, 06108 Nice, France.
Matej HladišInstitut de Chimie de Nice, Université Côte d'Azur, UMR 7272 CNRS, 06108 Nice, France.
Samar Abi KhalilInstitut de Chimie de Nice, Université Côte d'Azur, UMR 7272 CNRS, 06108 Nice, France.
Loïc BriandCentre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, CNRS, INRAE, Institut Agro, Université de Bourgogne, F-21000 Dijon, France.
Sébastien FiorucciInstitut de Chimie de Nice, Université Côte d'Azur, UMR 7272 CNRS, 06108 Nice, France.
Jérémie TopinInstitut de Chimie de Nice, Université Côte d'Azur, UMR 7272 CNRS, 06108 Nice, France.ORCID 0000-0003-1470-1206
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

Funding

Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFondation Roudnitska under the aegis of Fondation de FranceFrench National Research Agency ANR-19-CE07-0044GIRACT
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mammalian sense of smell is triggered by interaction between odorant molecules and a class of proteins, called olfactory receptors (ORs). These receptors, expressed at the surface of olfactory sensory neurons, encode myriad of distinct odors via a sophisticated activation pattern. However, determining the molecular recognition spectrum of ORs remains a major challenge. The Molecule to Olfactory Receptor database (M2OR, https://m2or.chemsensim.fr/) provides curated data that allows an easy exploration of the current state of the research on OR-molecule interaction. We have gathered a database of 75,050 bioassay experiments for 51 395 distinct OR-molecule pairs. Drawn from published literature and public databases, M2OR contains information about OR responses to molecules and their mixtures, receptor sequences and experimental details. Users can obtain information on the activity of a chosen molecule or a group of molecules, or search for agonists for a specific OR or a group of ORs. Advanced search allows for fine-grained queries using various metadata such as species or experimental assay system, and the database can be queried by multiple inputs via a batch search. Finally, for a given search query, users can access and download a curated aggregation of the experimental data into a binarized combinatorial code of olfaction.

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Databases, ProteinReceptors, OdorantAnimalsMammalsOdorantsOlfactory Receptor NeuronsSmellReceptors, Odorant

Identifiers

PMID37870437
PMCPMC10767820
OpenAlexW4387865275

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