OR2B6

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Olfactory receptor, family 2, subfamily B, member 6
Identifiers
Symbol(s) OR2B6; MGC120190; MGC129828; OR2B1; OR2B1P; OR2B5; OR2B6P; OR5-40; OR5-41; OR6-31; dJ408B20.2
External IDs MGI104715 HomoloGene40838
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Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 26212 218066
Ensembl ENSG00000124657 ENSMUSG00000036658
Uniprot P58173 Q2NKW3
Refseq NM_012367 (mRNA)
NP_036499 (protein)
NM_146542 (mRNA)
NP_666753 (protein)
Location Chr 6: 28.03 - 28.03 Mb Chr 13: 21.65 - 21.65 Mb
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Olfactory receptor, family 2, subfamily B, member 6, also known as OR2B6, 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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  • Rouquier S, Taviaux S, Trask BJ, et al. (1998). "Distribution of olfactory receptor genes in the human genome.". Nat. Genet. 18 (3): 243-50. doi:10.1038/ng0398-243. PMID 9500546. 
  • Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899-903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMID 12477932. 
  • Mungall AJ, Palmer SA, Sims SK, et al. (2003). "The DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 6.". Nature 425 (6960): 805-11. doi:10.1038/nature02055. PMID 14574404. 
  • 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. 
  • Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC).". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121-7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMID 15489334. 

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