Bookedited by Paolo Pelosi, Wolfgang Knoll.
Contents:
Chapter One: Genome mining and sequence analysis of chemosensory soluble proteins in arthropods
Chapter Two: Reconstructing protein-coding sequences from ancient DNA
Chapter Three: Bioinformatic, genomic and evolutionary analysis of genes: A case study in dipteran CSPs
Chapter Four: Proteomics of arthropod soluble olfactory proteins
Chapter Five: Analysis of post-translational modifications in soluble proteins involved in chemical communication from mammals and insects
Chapter Six: Bacterial expression and purification of vertebrate odorant-binding proteins
Chapter Seven: Structure of odorant binding proteins and chemosensory proteins determined by X-ray crystallography
Chapter Eight: Solution structure of insect CSP and OBPs by NMR
Chapter Nine: Stability of OBPs
Chapter Ten: Ligand-binding assays with OBPs and CSPs
Chapter Eleven: Fine structure immunocytochemistry—An important tool for research on odorant-binding proteins
Chapter Twelve: Effect of OBPs on the response of olfactory receptors
Chapter Thirteen: Site-directed mutagenesis of odorant-binding proteins
Chapter Fourteen: Silencing of OBP genes: Generation of loss-of-function mutants of PBP by genome editing
Chapter Fifteen: Electrochemical biosensing with odorant binding proteins: Chapter Sixteen - Electronic biosensors based on graphene FETs
Chapter Seventeen: Electronic biosensors based on EGOFETs
Chapter Eighteen: Gravimetric biosensors
Chapter Nineteen: Plasmonic biosensors relying on biomolecular conformational changes: Case of odorant binding proteins.