Odorant Receptor

《英文msh詞典》Odorant Receptor
[入口詞] Odorant Receptor
[主題詞] Receptors,Odorant
[英文釋義] Proteins,usually projecting from the cilia of olfactory receptor neurons,that specifically bind odorant molecules and trigger responses in the neurons. The large number of different odorant receptors appears to arise from several gene families or subfamilies rather than from DNA rearrangement.