In pig, phosphorylation drives binding specificity of recombinant OBP (stricto sensu, referred as OBP in this text) isoforms (Brimau et al., 2010) that are not O-GlcNAcylated, contrary to native OBP, purified from nasal tissue (Nagnan-Le Meillour et al., 2014). In order to precise the role of both P...
Chemical communication in elephants has been studied in detail both at the chemical and at the behavioural levels. Several pheromones have been identified, and their specific effects on the sexual behaviour of both the African and the Asian elephants have been accurately documented. This work is foc...
Odorant-Binding Proteins (OBP) are players of perireceptor events in olfaction. A molecular mechanism explaining their specificity for odors and pheromones has still to be proposed. A new track comes from the analysis of pig olfactory secretome, which is mainly composed of OBP isoforms, generated fr...