Hui‐Meng Lu

Class-wide sequence, structural, and docking-profile diversity of insect odorant receptors and structural specialization of Orco

The paper analyzes insect odorant receptor (OR) diversity across 115 species using sequence, structure, and docking profiles, finding associations with diet and habitat and identifying a conserved Orco domain.

Cross-attention and language models reveal the interpretability of functional predictions for the human olfactory receptor family

This study introduces CrossVOI, a framework for VOC-OR interaction prediction using protein language models and cross-attention, showing improved performance and interpretability of attention mechanisms in human olfactory receptors.

Transfer learning reveals species-specific olfactory preferences in Diptera and informs pest management strategies

This study develops a transfer learning model to predict volatile-odorant receptor interactions in Diptera, revealing species-specific olfactory preferences and informing pest management strategies.

Functional characterization of fatty acid synthase in Hermetia illucens

This study identifies and characterizes a fatty acid synthase gene in Hermetia illucens, elucidating the molecular origin of lauric acid production through in vitro experiments in yeast.