Membrane topology of the Drosophila OR83b odorant receptor
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- 20 November 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 581 (29), 5601-5604
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.febslet.2007.11.007
Abstract
By analogy to mammals, odorant receptors (ORs) in insects, such as Drosophila melanogaster, have long been thought to belong to the G‐protein coupled receptor (GPCR) superfamily. However, recent work has cast doubt on this assumption and has tentatively suggested an inverted topology compared to the canonical N out − C in 7 transmembrane (TM) GPCR topology, at least for some Drosophila ORs. Here, we report a detailed topology mapping of the Drosophila OR83b receptor using engineered glycosylation sites as topology markers. Our results are inconsistent with a classical GPCR topology and show that OR83b has an intracellular N‐terminus, an extracellular C‐terminus, and 7TM helices.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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