(R)-Muscone and Diverse Other Musk-Smelling Compounds
Molecular mechanism of activation of human musk receptors OR5AN1 and OR1A1 by (R)-muscone and diverse other musk-smelling compounds Lucky Ahmeda,1, Yuetian Zhangb,1, Eric Blockc,2, Michael Buehld, Michael J. Corrd, Rodrigo A. Cormaniche, Sivaji Gundalac, Hiroaki Matsunamif,g, David O’Hagand,2, Mehmet Ozbila, Yi Panb, Sivakumar Sekharana, Nicholas Tena, Mingan Wangh, Mingyan Yangd,h, Qingzhi Zhangd, Ruina Zhangb, Victor S. Batistaa,2, and Hanyi Zhuangb,i,2 aDepartment of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520; bDepartment of Pathophysiology, Key Laboratory of Cell Differentiation and Apoptosis of the Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 200025 Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; cDepartment of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY 12222; dSchool of Chemistry, University of St. Andrews, North Haugh, KY16 9ST St. Andrews, Scotland; eDepartment of Organic Chemistry, Chemistry Institute, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP 13083-970, Brazil; fDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710; gDepartment of Neurobiology, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710; hDepartment of Applied Chemistry, College of Science, China Agricultural University, Haidian District, 100193 Beijing, People’s Republic of China; and iInstitute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine/Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 200031 Shanghai, People’s Republic of China Edited by Jerrold Meinwald, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and approved March 21, 2018 (received for review July 21, 2017) Understanding olfaction at the molecular level is challenging due syntheses have been reported (3–22).
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