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BUCK, Linda Brown

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A novel multigene family may encode odorant receptors: A molecular basis for odor recognition.

Cell, 65, 175-187, 1991.

"In their landmark paper published in 1991, Buck and Axel cloned olfactory receptors, showing that they belong to the family of G protein coupled receptors. By analyzing rat DNA, they estimated that there were approximately one thousand different genes for olfactory receptors in the mammalian genome. This research opened the door to the genetic and molecular analysis of the mechanisms of olfaction" (Wikipedia article on Richard Axel, accessed 7-22).
For this and later work showing that each olfactory receptor neuron expresses only one kind of olfactory receptor protein...Axel and Buck received the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.



Subjects: Olfaction / Smell, Anatomy & Physiology of