OR51B2

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Olfactory receptor, family 51, subfamily B, member 2
Identifiers
Symbol(s) OR51B2; HOR5'Beta3; OR51B1P
External IDs MGI1341900 HomoloGene56593
Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 79345 18366
Ensembl ENSG00000184881 ENSMUSG00000063615
Uniprot Q9Y5P1 n/a
Refseq NM_033180 (mRNA)
NP_149420 (protein)
NM_013617 (mRNA)
NP_038645 (protein)
Location Chr 11: 5.3 - 5.3 Mb Chr 7: 103.77 - 103.77 Mb
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Olfactory receptor, family 51, subfamily B, member 2, also known as OR51B2, 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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  • Bulger M, van Doorninck JH, Saitoh N, et al. (1999). "Conservation of sequence and structure flanking the mouse and human beta-globin loci: the beta-globin genes are embedded within an array of odorant receptor genes.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96 (9): 5129–34. PMID 10220430. 
  • Bulger M, Bender MA, van Doorninck JH, et al. (2001). "Comparative structural and functional analysis of the olfactory receptor genes flanking the human and mouse beta-globin gene clusters.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 (26): 14560–5. doi:10.1073/pnas.97.26.14560. PMID 11121057. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 

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