OR3A1 and cork taint

Silva Teixeira, Silva Ferreira, and Cerqueira (2016) identify OR3A1 as a putative receptor for some of the molecules that cause cork taint in wine. Here at primaryodors.org, OR3A1 has been assigned the green perceptual note based on it being the only known receptor for trifernal and the pure leafy green aroma of that same compound, […]

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A long way to go

An error was found in the code that was measuring the types and strengths of interactions between odorants and individual binding site residues (BSRs). The gist of the error was that it treated every ligand atom as capable of only van der Waals interactions, the kind that saturated hydrocarbons have, and therefore did not calculate […]

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