OR4N5

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Olfactory receptor, family 4, subfamily N, member 5
Identifiers
Symbol(s) OR4N5;
External IDs MGI3030556 HomoloGene17270
Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 390437 258487
Ensembl ENSG00000184394 ENSMUSG00000048933
Uniprot Q8IXE1 n/a
Refseq NM_001004724 (mRNA)
NP_001004724 (protein)
NM_146494 (mRNA)
NP_666705 (protein)
Location Chr 14: 19.68 - 19.68 Mb Chr 14: 48.82 - 48.82 Mb
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Olfactory receptor, family 4, subfamily N, member 5, also known as OR4N5, 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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  • 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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