OR56B4

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Olfactory receptor, family 56, subfamily B, member 4
Identifiers
Symbol(s) OR56B4; OR11-67
External IDs MGI3030523 HomoloGene73951
RNA expression pattern

More reference expression data

Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 196335 258745
Ensembl ENSG00000180919 ENSMUSG00000073907
Uniprot Q8NH76 n/a
Refseq NM_001005181 (mRNA)
NP_001005181 (protein)
NM_146750 (mRNA)
NP_666961 (protein)
Location Chr 11: 6.09 - 6.09 Mb Chr 7: 105.19 - 105.19 Mb
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Olfactory receptor, family 56, subfamily B, member 4, also known as OR56B4, 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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[edit] Further reading

  • 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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