Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Olfactory marker protein (OMP) regulates formation and refinement of the olfactory glomerular map

  • Dinu F. Albeanu,
  • Allison C. Provost,
  • Prateek Agarwal,
  • Edward R. Soucy,
  • Joseph D. Zak,
  • Venkatesh N. Murthy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07544-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Olfactory marker protein (OMP) expressed in all olfactory sensory neurons (OSN) is required for proper signal transduction and odor discrimination. Here, the authors report that OMP deletion leads to formation of glomeruli with axons from heterogeneous OSNs due to local axonal mistargeting.