OR2K2

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Olfactory receptor, family 2, subfamily K, member 2
Identifiers
Symbol(s) OR2K2; HSHTPCRH06; HTPCRH06; MGC133152; OR2AN1P; OR2AR1P
External IDs MGI3030101 HomoloGene17436
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Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 26248 258922
Ensembl ENSG00000171133 ENSMUSG00000043385
Uniprot Q8NGT1 n/a
Refseq NM_205859 (mRNA)
NP_995581 (protein)
NM_146920 (mRNA)
NP_667131 (protein)
Location Chr 9: 113.13 - 113.13 Mb Chr 4: 58.88 - 58.88 Mb
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Olfactory receptor, family 2, subfamily K, member 2, also known as OR2K2, 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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  • Parmentier M, Libert F, Schurmans S, et al. (1992). "Expression of members of the putative olfactory receptor gene family in mammalian germ cells.". Nature 355 (6359): 453-5. doi:10.1038/355453a0. PMID 1370859. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Aloni R, Olender T, Lancet D (2007). "Ancient genomic architecture for mammalian olfactory receptor clusters.". Genome Biol. 7 (10): R88. doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-10-r88. PMID 17010214. 

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