A new non-classical fold of varroa odorant-binding proteins reveals a wide open internal cavity

Abstract Odorant-binding proteins (OBPs), as they occur in insects, form a distinct class of proteins that apparently has no closely related representatives in other animals. However, ticks, mites, spiders and millipedes contain genes encoding proteins with sequence similarity to insect OBPs. In thi...

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Main Authors: Beatrice Amigues, Jiao Zhu, Anais Gaubert, Simona Arena, Giovanni Renzone, Philippe Leone, Isabella Maria Fischer, Harald Paulsen, Wolfgang Knoll, Andrea Scaloni, Alain Roussel, Christian Cambillau, Paolo Pelosi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92604-2