期刊
CHEMICAL SENSES
卷 38, 期 4, 页码 293-304出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjs138
关键词
Drosophila melanogaster; mixture interaction; mixture processing; olfaction; olfactory receptor neuron; Or22a
资金
- German Research Council [GA524/7]
- German Ministry of Education and Research [01GQ0931]
Most odors in natural environments are mixtures of several compounds. Perceptually, these can blend into a new perfume, or some components may dominate as elements of the mixture. In order to understand such mixture interactions, it is necessary to study the events at the olfactory periphery, down to the level of single-odorant receptor cells. Does a strong ligand present at a low concentration outweigh the effect of weak ligands present at high concentrations? We used the fruit fly receptor dOr22a and a banana-like odor mixture as a model system. We show that an intermediate ligand at an intermediate concentration alone elicits the neurons blend response, despite the presence of both weaker ligands at higher concentration, and of better ligands at lower concentration in the mixture. Because all of these components, when given alone, elicited significant responses, this reveals specific mixture processing already at the periphery. By measuring complete doseresponse curves we show that these mixture effects can be fully explained by a model of syntopic interaction at a single-receptor binding site. Our data have important implications for how odor mixtures are processed in general, and what preprocessing occurs before the information reaches the brain.
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