Article Information
- Received August 31, 2015
- Revision received February 24, 2016
- Accepted March 1, 2016
- First published April 20, 2016.
- Version of record published April 20, 2016.
Author Information
- Narumi Sato-Akuhara1,
- Nao Horio1,
- Aya Kato-Namba3,
- Keiichi Yoshikawa3,
- Yoshihito Niimura1,2,
- Sayoko Ihara1,2,
- Mika Shirasu1,2, and
- Kazushige Touhara1,2
- 1Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan,
- 2ERATO Touhara Chemosensory Signal Project, the Japan Science and Technology Agency, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan, and
- 3Kansei Science Research, Kao Corporation, Ichikai-machi, Haga-gun, Tochigi 321-3497, Japan
Author contributions
Author contributions: N.S.-A., M.S., and K.T. designed research; N.S.-A., N.H., A.K.-N., K.Y., and Y.N. performed research; N.S.-A., N.H., A.K.-N., K.Y., Y.N., S.I., M.S., and K.T. analyzed data; N.S.-A., M.S., and K.T. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received August 31, 2015.
- Revision received February 24, 2016.
- Accepted March 1, 2016.
This work was supported by MEXT Japan (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research–S 24227003) and the Japanese Science and Technology Agency ERATO Touhara Chemosensory Signal Project. We thank Takasago International for providing highly pure musk odorants; Nagoya Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens for providing the orangutan sample (Baran, GAIN ID 0008) through the Great Ape Information Network and Primate Research Institute in Kyoto University; and H. Sakano for providing KO mice.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to either Kazushige Touhara or Mika Shirasu, Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, ktouhara{at}mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp or ashirasu{at}mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
