OR56A1

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Olfactory receptor, family 56, subfamily A, member 1
Identifiers
Symbol(s) OR56A1; OR11-75
External IDs HomoloGene84584
RNA expression pattern

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Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 120796 n/a
Ensembl ENSG00000180934 n/a
Uniprot Q8NGH5 n/a
Refseq NM_001001917 (mRNA)
NP_001001917 (protein)
n/a (mRNA)
n/a (protein)
Location Chr 11: 6 - 6.01 Mb n/a
Pubmed search [1] n/a

Olfactory receptor, family 56, subfamily A, member 1, also known as OR56A1, 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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