Publication List

• Odor Coding by a Mammalian Receptor Repertoire.
• Structural determinants of odorant recognition by the human olfactory receptors OR1A1 and OR1A2.
• The broadly tuned odorant receptor or1a1 is highly selective for 3-methyl-2,4-nonanedione, a key food odorant in aged wines, tea, and other foods.
• Nature’s Chemical Signatures in Human Olfaction: A Foodborne Perspective for Future Biotechnology.
• Ligand specificity of odorant receptors.
• Functions of olfactory receptors are decoded from their sequence.
• Mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons express a repertoire of olfactory receptors and respond to odorant-like molecules.
• A Scalable, Multiplexed Assay for Decoding GPCR-Ligand Interactions with RNA Sequencing.
• A Renal Olfactory Receptor Aids in Kidney Glucose Handling.
• Functional analysis of a mammalian odorant receptor subfamily.
• The Molecular Basis for Ligand Specificity in a Mouse Olfactory Receptor: A NETWORK OF FUNCTIONALLY IMPORTANT RESIDUES.
• Functional evolution of mammalian odorant receptors.
• Implications for human odor sensing revealed from the statistics of odorant-receptor interactions.
• Exchanging ligand-binding specificity between a pair of mouse olfactory receptor paralogs reveals odorant recognition principles.
• Discovery of Novel Ligands for Mouse Olfactory Receptor MOR42-3 Using an In Silico Screening Approach and In Vitro Validation.
• Implausibility of the vibrational theory of olfaction.
• Enterochromaffin cells of the Human gut: sensors for spices and odorants.
• A Synthetic Sandalwood Odorant Induces Wound-Healing Processes in Human Keratinocytes via the Olfactory Receptor OR2AT4.
• Genetic variation across the human olfactory receptor repertoire alters odor perception.
• Interactions of odorants with olfactory receptors and receptor neurons match the perceptual dynamics observed for woody and fruity odorant mixtures.
• Competitive binding predicts nonlinear responses of olfactory receptors to complex mixtures.
• Crucial role of copper in detection of metal-coordinating odorants.
• Deorphanization of Dresden G Protein-Coupled Receptor for an Odorant Receptor.
• A Butter Aroma Recombinate Activates Human Class-I Odorant Receptors.
• Identification of agonists for a group of human odorant receptors.
• Heterologous functional expression system for odorant receptors.
• Copper-mediated thiol potentiation and mutagenesis-guided modeling suggest a highly conserved copper-binding motif in human OR2M3.
• Test of the Binding Threshold Hypothesis for olfactory receptors: Explanation of the differential binding of ketones to the mouse and human orthologs of olfactory receptor.
• Identification of a Testicular Odorant Receptor Mediating Human Sperm Chemotaxis.
• Characterization of an extended receptive ligand repertoire of the human olfactory receptor OR17‐40 comprising structurally related compounds.