OR10A4

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Olfactory receptor, family 10, subfamily A, member 4
Identifiers
Symbol(s) OR10A4; JCG5; OR10A4P
External IDs MGI109148 HomoloGene23241
Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 283297 18314
Ensembl ENSG00000170782 ENSMUSG00000073897
Uniprot Q9H209 n/a
Refseq NM_207186 (mRNA)
NP_997069 (protein)
NM_020598 (mRNA)
NP_065623 (protein)
Location Chr 11: 6.85 - 6.86 Mb Chr 7: 106.89 - 106.89 Mb
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Olfactory receptor, family 10, subfamily A, member 4, also known as OR10A4, is a human gene.[1]

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.[1]

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  • Lane RP, Cutforth T, Young J, et al. (2001). "Genomic analysis of orthologous mouse and human olfactory receptor loci.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98 (13): 7390–5. doi:10.1073/pnas.131215398. PMID 11416212. 
  • Gaudin JC, Breuils L, Haertlé T (2002). "New GPCRs from a human lingual cDNA library.". Chem. Senses 26 (9): 1157–66. PMID 11705801. 
  • Fuchs T, Malecova B, Linhart C, et al. (2003). "DEFOG: a practical scheme for deciphering families of genes.". Genomics 80 (3): 295–302. PMID 12213199. 
  • Malnic B, Godfrey PA, Buck LB (2004). "The human olfactory receptor gene family.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101 (8): 2584–9. PMID 14983052. 

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