OR5K2

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Olfactory receptor, family 5, subfamily K, member 2
Identifiers
Symbol(s) OR5K2; OR3-9
External IDs MGI3030008 HomoloGene17461
Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 402135 259004
Ensembl ENSG00000181828 ENSMUSG00000060663
Uniprot Q8NHB8 n/a
Refseq NM_001004737 (mRNA)
NP_001004737 (protein)
NM_147002 (mRNA)
NP_667213 (protein)
Location Chr 3: 99.7 - 99.7 Mb Chr 16: 58.77 - 58.77 Mb
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Olfactory receptor, family 5, subfamily K, member 2, also known as OR5K2, 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. 
  • 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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