{
  "id": 17955221,
  "title": "Class-wide sequence, structural, and docking-profile diversity of insect odorant receptors and structural specialization of Orco",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/class-wide-sequence-structural-and-docking-profile-diversity-of",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "eLife",
    "slug": "elife",
    "url": "https://elifesciences.org/articles/110877"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Insect olfaction is facilitated by a heterotetrameric odorant receptor–odorant receptor co-receptor (OR-Orco) complex. However, extensive sequence divergence and lineage-specific expansion have complicated large-scale comparisons of OR repertoires across insects. Here, we integrated sequence similarity, structural similarity, and molecular docking to analyze ORs from 115 insect species. OR…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}