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Comment
. 2015 Jun 23;112(25):E3154.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1508035112. Epub 2015 Jun 4.

Plausibility of the vibrational theory of olfaction

Luca Turin  1 , Simon Gane  2 , Dimitris Georganakis  3 , Klio Maniati  4 , Efthimios M C Skoulakis  4
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Plausibility of the vibrational theory of olfaction

Luca Turin et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Response of Block et al.’s (1) receptor no. 173 in superfamily 5, to isotopomers of cyclopentadecanone. Numbers taken from the primary data plotted in figure S3.1 of ref. . The D4 point, omitted for clarity, is at 0.06 ± 0.04.
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  • Implausibility of the vibrational theory of olfaction.
    Block E, Jang S, Matsunami H, Sekharan S, Dethier B, Ertem MZ, Gundala S, Pan Y, Li S, Li Z, Lodge SN, Ozbil M, Jiang H, Penalba SF, Batista VS, Zhuang H. Block E, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 May 26;112(21):E2766-74. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1503054112. Epub 2015 Apr 21. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015. PMID: 25901328 Free PMC article.

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    1. Franco MI, Turin L, Mershin A, Skoulakis EM. Molecular vibration-sensing component in Drosophila melanogaster olfaction. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2011;108(9):3797–3802. - PMC - PubMed

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