OR2T1

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Olfactory receptor, family 2, subfamily T, member 1
Identifiers
Symbol(s) OR2T1; OR1-25
External IDs MGI109304 HomoloGene74028
Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 26696 18330
Ensembl ENSG00000175143 ENSMUSG00000072707
Uniprot O43869 n/a
Refseq NM_030904 (mRNA)
NP_112166 (protein)
NM_147027 (mRNA)
NP_667238 (protein)
Location Chr 1: 246.64 - 246.64 Mb Chr 14: 13.12 - 13.12 Mb
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Olfactory receptor, family 2, subfamily T, member 1, also known as OR2T1, 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. 
  • 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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