OR5AC2

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Olfactory receptor, family 5, subfamily AC, member 2
Identifiers
Symbol(s) OR5AC2; HSA1
External IDs MGI3030032 HomoloGene51800
Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 81050 258036
Ensembl ENSG00000196578 ENSMUSG00000052537
Uniprot Q9NZP5 n/a
Refseq NM_054106 (mRNA)
NP_473447 (protein)
NM_001011808 (mRNA)
NP_001011808 (protein)
Location Chr 3: 99.29 - 99.29 Mb Chr 16: 59.14 - 59.14 Mb
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Olfactory receptor, family 5, subfamily AC, member 2, also known as OR5AC2, 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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  • Rouquier S, Blancher A, Giorgi D (2000). "The olfactory receptor gene repertoire in primates and mouse: evidence for reduction of the functional fraction in primates.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 (6): 2870–4. doi:10.1073/pnas.040580197. PMID 10706615. 
  • Muzny DM, Scherer SE, Kaul R, et al. (2006). "The DNA sequence, annotation and analysis of human chromosome 3.". Nature 440 (7088): 1194–8. doi:10.1038/nature04728. PMID 16641997. 

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