OR2D2

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Olfactory receptor, family 2, subfamily D, member 2
Identifiers
Symbol(s) OR2D2; OR11-610; OR2D1; hg27
External IDs OMIM: 608494 MGI3030549 HomoloGene81541
Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 120776 258776
Ensembl ENSG00000166368 ENSMUSG00000062987
Uniprot Q9H210 n/a
Refseq NM_003700 (mRNA)
NP_003691 (protein)
NM_146780 (mRNA)
NP_666991 (protein)
Location Chr 11: 6.87 - 6.87 Mb Chr 7: 106.92 - 106.92 Mb
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Olfactory receptor, family 2, subfamily D, member 2, also known as OR2D2, 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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  • Buettner JA, Glusman G, Ben-Arie N, et al. (1998). "Organization and evolution of olfactory receptor genes on human chromosome 11.". Genomics 53 (1): 56–68. doi:10.1006/geno.1998.5422. PMID 9787077. 
  • 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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