Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

Applying medicinal chemistry strategies to understand odorant discrimination

  • Erwan Poivet,
  • Zita Peterlin,
  • Narmin Tahirova,
  • Lu Xu,
  • Clara Altomare,
  • Anne Paria,
  • Dong-Jing Zou,
  • Stuart Firestein

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11157
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Understanding the basis of odour perception and discrimination is a challenging task, due to the inherent complexity of the olfactory system. Here, the authors use a medicinal chemistry approach to derive biologically relevant rules for odorant classification.