The insect SNMP gene family

RG Vogt, NE Miller, R Litvack, RA Fandino… - Insect biochemistry and …, 2009 - Elsevier
SNMPs are membrane proteins observed to associate with chemosensory neurons in
insects; in Drosophila melanogaster, SNMP1 has been shown to be essential for the …

[HTML][HTML] The SNMP/CD36 gene family in Diptera, Hymenoptera and Coleoptera: Drosophila melanogaster, D. pseudoobscura, Anopheles gambiae, Aedes aegypti …

Z Nichols, RG Vogt - Insect biochemistry and molecular biology, 2008 - Elsevier
Sensory neuron membrane proteins (SNMPs) are membrane bound proteins initially
identified in olfactory receptor neurons of Lepidoptera and are thought to play a role in odor …

Antennal SNMPs (sensory neuron membrane proteins) of lepidoptera define a unique family of invertebrate CD36‐like proteins

ME Rogers, J Krieger, RG Vogt - Journal of neurobiology, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
SNMP1-Apol is an antennal-specific protein of the wild silk moth Antheraea polyphemus; the
protein is abundantly expressed and localized to the receptor membranes of sex …

SNMP is a signaling component required for pheromone sensitivity in Drosophila

X Jin, TS Ha, DP Smith - Proceedings of the National …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
The only known volatile pheromone in Drosophila, 11-cis-vaccenyl acetate (cVA), mediates
a variety of behaviors including aggregation, mate recognition, and sexual behavior. cVA is …

[HTML][HTML] A CD36 ectodomain mediates insect pheromone detection via a putative tunnelling mechanism

C Gomez-Diaz, B Bargeton, L Abuin, N Bukar… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
CD36 transmembrane proteins have diverse roles in lipid uptake, cell adhesion and
pathogen sensing. Despite numerous in vitro studies, how they act in native cellular contexts …

[HTML][HTML] Snmp-1, a novel membrane protein of olfactory neurons of the silk moth Antheraea polyphemus with homology to the CD36 family of membrane proteins

ME Rogers, M Sun, MR Lerner, RG Vogt - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1997 - ASBMB
While olfactory neurons of silk moths are well known for their exquisite sensitivity to sex
pheromone odorants, molecular mechanisms underlying this sensitivity are poorly …

Molecular identification and differential expression of sensory neuron membrane proteins in the antennae of the black cutworm moth Agrotis ipsilon

SH Gu, RN Yang, MB Guo, GR Wang, KM Wu… - Journal of Insect …, 2013 - Elsevier
The insect sensory neuron membrane proteins (SNMPs) SNMP1 and SNMP2 are
transmembrane domain-containing proteins and are homologs of the vertebrate CD36 …

A phylogenomics approach to characterizing sensory neuron membrane proteins (SNMPs) in Lepidoptera

HJ Zhang, W Xu, Q Chen, LN Sun, A Anderson… - Insect Biochemistry and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sensory neuron membrane proteins (SNMPs) play a critical role in the insect olfactory
system but there is a deficit of functional studies beyond Drosophila. Here, we use a …

Differential expression of SNMP-1 and SNMP-2 proteins in pheromone-sensitive hairs of moths

M Forstner, T Gohl, I Gondesen, K Raming… - Chemical …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
In moths the detection of female-released sex pheromones involves hairlike structures on
the male antenna. These long sensilla trichodea usually contain 2–3 chemosensory …

An essential role for a CD36-related receptor in pheromone detection in Drosophila

R Benton, KS Vannice, LB Vosshall - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
The CD36 family of transmembrane receptors is present across metazoans and has been
implicated biochemically in lipid binding and transport. Several CD36 proteins function in …