OR8D1

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Olfactory receptor, family 8, subfamily D, member 1
Identifiers
Symbol(s) OR8D1; JCG9; OR8D3; OST004; PDJ9J14
External IDs MGI109309 HomoloGene79676
Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 283159 18324
Ensembl ENSG00000196341 ENSMUSG00000047667
Uniprot Q8WZ84 n/a
Refseq NM_001002917 (mRNA)
NP_001002917 (protein)
NM_146783 (mRNA)
NP_666994 (protein)
Location Chr 11: 123.68 - 123.69 Mb Chr 9: 38.61 - 38.61 Mb
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Olfactory receptor, family 8, subfamily D, member 1, also known as OR8D1, 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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  • Gaudin JC, Breuils L, Haertlé T (2002). "New GPCRs from a human lingual cDNA library.". Chem. Senses 26 (9): 1157–66. PMID 11705801. 
  • 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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