›› 2002, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (1): 131-137.

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Progress in the studies of antenna odorant binding proteins of insects

WANG Gui-Rong, GUO Yu-Yuan, WU Kong-Ming*   

  • Online:2002-02-20 Published:2002-02-20

Abstract: Odorant-binding proteins of insects are soluble acidic proteins,very concentrated in the lymph of chemosensory sensilla of insect antennae and belonging to four major classes (PBP,general OBP1,general OBP2 and OBP like).Odorant-0binding proteins play an important role in insect for perceiving exoteric odorant and are widely and deeply studied in the recent decade.Research methods, biochemical characteristics, molecular structure and physiological role of odorant-binding proteins are reviewed in details in this paper.

Key words: odorant binding protein, antenna, insect