Applying medicinal chemistry strategies to understand odorant discrimination

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Erwan Poivet, Zita Peterlin, Narmin Tahirova, Lu Xu, Clara Altomare, Anne Paria, Dong-Jing Zou, Stuart Firestein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11157