OR2K2

OR2K2
Identifiers
Aliases OR2K2, HSHTPCRH06, HTPCRH06, OR2AN1P, OR2AR1P, olfactory receptor family 2 subfamily K member 2
External IDs MGI: 3030101 HomoloGene: 17436 GeneCards: OR2K2
RNA expression pattern


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Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

26248

258922

Ensembl

ENSG00000171133

ENSMUSG00000043385

UniProt

Q8NGT1

n/a

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_205859

NM_146920

RefSeq (protein)

NP_995581.1

n/a

Location (UCSC) Chr 9: 111.33 – 111.33 Mb Chr 4: 58.78 – 58.79 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
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Olfactory receptor 2K2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR2K2 gene.[3][4][5]

Olfactory receptors interact with odorant molecules in the nose, to initiate a neuronal response that triggers the perception of a smell. The olfactory receptor proteins are members of a large family of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) arising from single coding-exon genes. Olfactory receptors share a 7-transmembrane domain structure with many neurotransmitter and hormone receptors and are responsible for the recognition and G protein-mediated transduction of odorant signals. The olfactory receptor gene family is the largest in the genome. The nomenclature assigned to the olfactory receptor genes and proteins for this organism is independent of other organisms.[5]

See also

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. Parmentier M, Libert F, Schurmans S, Schiffmann S, Lefort A, Eggerickx D, Ledent C, Mollereau C, Gerard C, Perret J, et al. (Mar 1992). "Expression of members of the putative olfactory receptor gene family in mammalian germ cells". Nature. 355 (6359): 453–5. doi:10.1038/355453a0. PMID 1370859.
  4. Aloni R, Olender T, Lancet D (Jan 2007). "Ancient genomic architecture for mammalian olfactory receptor clusters". Genome Biol. 7 (10): R88. doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-10-r88. PMC 1794568Freely accessible. PMID 17010214.
  5. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: OR2K2 olfactory receptor, family 2, subfamily K, member 2".

Further reading

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