OR5AK2

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Olfactory receptor, family 5, subfamily AK, member 2
Identifiers
Symbol(s) OR5AK2;
External IDs MGI3030827 HomoloGene79352
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Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 390181 258427
Ensembl ENSG00000181273 ENSMUSG00000075220
Uniprot Q8NH90 n/a
Refseq NM_001005323 (mRNA)
NP_001005323 (protein)
NM_146435 (mRNA)
NP_666646 (protein)
Location Chr 11: 56.51 - 56.51 Mb Chr 2: 85.21 - 85.22 Mb
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Olfactory receptor, family 5, subfamily AK, member 2, also known as OR5AK2, 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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