OR52W1

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Olfactory receptor, family 52, subfamily W, member 1
Identifiers
Symbol(s) OR52W1; OR11-71; OR52W1P
External IDs MGI3030526 HomoloGene64859
Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 120787 258352
Ensembl ENSG00000175485 ENSMUSG00000073906
Uniprot Q6IF63 n/a
Refseq NM_001005178 (mRNA)
NP_001005178 (protein)
NM_146355 (mRNA)
NP_666467 (protein)
Location Chr 11: 6.18 - 6.18 Mb Chr 7: 105.24 - 105.24 Mb
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Olfactory receptor, family 52, subfamily W, member 1, also known as OR52W1, 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. 
  • Taylor TD, Noguchi H, Totoki Y, et al. (2006). "Human chromosome 11 DNA sequence and analysis including novel gene identification.". Nature 440 (7083): 497-500. doi:10.1038/nature04632. PMID 16554811. 

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