Del Mármol J publications on PubMed

del Mármol J, Yedlin MA and Ruta V. The structural basis of odorant recognition in insect olfactory receptors. Nature. 2021;597(7874):126–31
  • Spotlight: Brewster L and Matthews B. Seeing smell: the structural underpinnings of insect olfaction. Trends in Biochemical Sciences, online (2021)
  • News and Views: Liman E. Insights into a receptor that lets insects sense scents. Nature 597,37–39 (2021)
  • Quanta Magazine: Secret workings of smell receptors revealed for the first time.
Muller PA, Schneeberger M, Matheis F, Wang P, Kerner Z, Ilanges A, Pellegrino K, del Mármol J, Castro TBR, Furuichi M, Perkins M, Han W, Rao A, Picard AJ, Cross JR, Honda K, de Araujo I, Mucida D. Microbiota modulate sympathetic neurons via a gut-brain circuit. Nature. 2020 Jul;583(7816):441-446
Butterwick JA, del Mármol J, Kim KH, Kahlson MA, Rogow JA, Waltz T and Ruta V. Cryo-EM structure of the insect olfactory receptor Orco. Nature. 2018 Aug; 560(7719):447-452
  • Comment: Luo Y and Carlson JR. Sensory Biology: Structure of an Insect Chemoreceptor. Curr Biol. 2018 Oct 22;28(20):R1202-R1205
  • Comment: Zufall F and Domingos A. The structure of Orco and its impact on our understanding of olfaction. J Gen Physiol. 2018 Dec 3;150(12):1602-1605
del Mármol J, Touhara K, Croft G. and MacKinnon R. Piezo1 forms a slowly-inactivating mechanosensitive ion channel in mouse embryonic stem cells. Elife. 2018 Aug 22;7
del Mármol J, Rietmeijer R and Brohawn S. Studying mechanosensitivity of two-pore domain K+ channels in cellular and reconstituted proteoliposome membranes. Methods Mol Biol. 2018, 1684:129-150
Brohawn SB, del Mármol J, MacKinnon R. Crystal structure of the human K2P TRAAK, a lipid and mechanosensitive K+ ion channel. Science 2012, 6067: 436-441
Schmidt D, del Mármol J, MacKinnon R. Mechanistic basis for low-threshold mechanosensitivity in voltage- dependent K+ channels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2012, 26: 10352-10357
del Mármol J, Filevich O, Etchenique R. A Ruthenium-Rhodamine Complex as an activatable fluorescent probe. Anal. Chem, 2010, 14: 6259-6264