OR13C8

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Olfactory receptor, family 13, subfamily C, member 8
Identifiers
Symbol(s) OR13C8; OR37H; OR9-10
External IDs MGI3030106 HomoloGene17409
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Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 138802 258836
Ensembl ENSG00000186943 ENSMUSG00000051593
Uniprot Q8NGS7 n/a
Refseq NM_001004483 (mRNA)
NP_001004483 (protein)
NM_146839 (mRNA)
NP_667050 (protein)
Location Chr 9: 106.37 - 106.37 Mb Chr 4: 52.93 - 52.93 Mb
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Olfactory receptor, family 13, subfamily C, member 8, also known as OR13C8, 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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  • 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. 
  • Hoppe R, Breer H, Strotmann J (2004). "Organization and evolutionary relatedness of OR37 olfactory receptor genes in mouse and human.". Genomics 82 (3): 355–64. PMID 12906860. 
  • 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. 
  • Humphray SJ, Oliver K, Hunt AR, et al. (2004). "DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 9.". Nature 429 (6990): 369–74. doi:10.1038/nature02465. PMID 15164053. 

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