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A conserved odorant binding protein is required for essential amino acid detection in Drosophila

Animals need to detect in the food essential amino acids that they cannot synthesize. We found that the odorant binding protein OBP19b, which is highly expressed in Drosophila melanogaster taste sensilla, is necessary for the detection of several amino acids including the essential l-phenylalanine....

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Autores principales: Rihani, Karen, Fraichard, Stéphane, Chauvel, Isabelle, Poirier, Nicolas, Delompré, Thomas, Neiers, Fabrice, Tanimura, Teiichi, Ferveur, Jean-François, Briand, Loïc
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6874667/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31799428
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0673-2