{"id":229654,"date":"2026-01-23T06:05:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/mechanistic-insights-into-fatty-acid-odor-detection-mediated-by-class-ii-olfactory-receptors"},"modified":"2026-01-23T06:05:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:05:56","slug":"mechanistic-insights-into-fatty-acid-odor-detection-mediated-by-class-ii-olfactory-receptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/mechanistic-insights-into-fatty-acid-odor-detection-mediated-by-class-ii-olfactory-receptors","title":{"rendered":"Mechanistic insights into fatty acid odor detection mediated by class II olfactory receptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mechanistic-insights-into-fatty-acid-odor-detection-mediated-by-class-ii-olfactory-receptors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cryo-EM structures reveal how <i>Olfr110<\/i>, a class II odorant receptor, binds hydrophobic odorants such as unsaturated fatty acid metabolites in a large polar pocket with an unconventional activation mechanism, defining the structural basis of odor recognition and guiding drug targeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryo-EM structures reveal how Olfr110, a class II odorant receptor, binds hydrophobic odorants such as unsaturated fatty acid metabolites in a large polar pocket with an unconventional activation mechanism, defining the structural basis of odor recognition and guiding drug targeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}