How cells in the nose detect odors: Braking mechanism in olfactory neurons helps generate amazing diversity of sensors

A team of scientists has studied the olfactory receptor for detecting carbon dioxide in Drosophila, and identified a large multi-protein complex in olfactory neurons, called MMB/dREAM, that plays a major role in selecting the carbon dioxide receptors to be expressed in appropriate neurons.

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