OR6K6

OR6K6
Identifiers
Aliases	OR6K6, OR1-21, olfactory receptor family 6 subfamily K member 6
External IDs	MGI: 3030065 HomoloGene: 17363 GeneCards: OR6K6
Gene ontology Molecular function • G-protein coupled receptor activity • olfactory receptor activity • transmembrane signaling receptor activity • signal transducer activity Cellular component • integral component of membrane • plasma membrane • membrane Biological process • G-protein coupled receptor signaling pathway • sensory perception of smell • detection of chemical stimulus involved in sensory perception of smell • detection of chemical stimulus involved in sensory perception • signal transduction • response to stimulus Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	128371	404222
Ensembl	ENSG00000180433	ENSMUSG00000046486
UniProt	Q8NGW6	n/a
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_001005184	NM_001005520
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001005184.1	n/a
Location (UCSC)	Chr 1: 158.75 – 158.76 Mb	Chr 1: 174.12 – 174.12 Mb
PubMed search	[1]	[2]
Wikidata

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Olfactory receptor 6K6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR6K6 gene.^[3]

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.^[3]

See also

• Olfactory receptor

References

1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
3. "Entrez Gene: OR6K6 olfactory receptor, family 6, subfamily K, member 6".

Further reading

• Malnic B, Godfrey PA, Buck LB (2004). "The human olfactory receptor gene family". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101 (8): 2584–9. doi:10.1073/pnas.0307882100. PMC 356993. PMID 14983052.
• Gregory SG, Barlow KF, McLay KE, et al. (2006). "The DNA sequence and biological annotation of human chromosome 1". Nature. 441 (7091): 315–21. doi:10.1038/nature04727. PMID 16710414.

External links

• OR6K6 protein, human at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.