Mammalian olfactory receptor genes have been engineered into a yeast expression system. The resulting cells provide a high-throughput screening system for studying receptor specificity and may find use as biosensors.
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Walt, D. Smells like bread. Nat Chem Biol 3, 306–307 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio0607-306
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