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SUBMITTER: Campanacci V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC154299 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Campanacci Valerie V Lartigue Audrey A Hällberg B Martin BM Jones T Alwyn TA Giudici-Orticoni Marie-Thèrese MT Tegoni Mariella M Cambillau Christian C
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20030415 9
Chemosensory proteins (CSPs) have been proposed to transport hydrophobic chemicals from air to olfactory or taste receptors. They have been isolated from several sensory organs of a wide range of insect species. The x-ray structure of CSPMbraA6, a 112-aa antennal protein from the moth Mamestra brassicae (Mbra), was shown to exhibit a novel type of alpha-helical fold. We have performed a structural and binding study of CSPMbraA6 to get some insights into its possible molecular function. Tryptopha ...[more]