OR8K3

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Olfactory receptor, family 8, subfamily K, member 3
Identifiers
Symbol(s) OR8K3; OR11-181
External IDs MGI3030881 HomoloGene51783
Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 219473 259014
Ensembl ENSG00000181689 ENSMUSG00000075196
Uniprot Q8NH51 n/a
Refseq NM_001005202 (mRNA)
NP_001005202 (protein)
XM_001001926 (mRNA)
XP_001001926 (protein)
Location Chr 11: 55.84 - 55.84 Mb Chr 2: 86.03 - 86.03 Mb
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Olfactory receptor, family 8, subfamily K, member 3, also known as OR8K3, 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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