Enzyme model of olfaction

The next question arising is that about the minimum mmber of monoosmatic components required to encode an odor quality. It has been recognized by BEETS that an inherent "Principle of informational complexity" makes the perception of even a single odorant molecular species informationally complex, even if the odor information pattern is dominated by the terminal derivative (monoosmatic component) of a single chemoreceptory modality. But there has to be something like a minimum complexity still. In terms of the EMO there must be a minimum number of monoosmatic components essential to produce a minimal odor information pattern. Again, since this problem is not in the domain of peripheral processes, the Enzyme Model of Olfaction cannot provide an answer. However, experimental results obtained by POLAK (m) indicate that one... 

These results cannot be explained with any of the older theories of olfaction whereas the Enzyme Model of Olfaction not only can do that effortlessly, but actueLLly allows to predict these effects on the basis of generally accepted principles of molecular biochemistry. The concept of "STRUCTURE RECOGNITION AS PERIPHERAL PROCESS IN ODOR QUALITY CODING" represents only the special application of a more general mechanism of structvure recognition in peripheral processes to the problems of quality coding in olfac-r tion. 

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