OR9A4
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Olfactory receptor, family 9, subfamily A, member 4
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| Symbol(s) | OR9A4; | |||||||||||||
| External IDs | MGI: 3030294 HomoloGene: 64866 | |||||||||||||
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| Human | Mouse | |||||||||||||
| Entrez | 130075 | 258381 | ||||||||||||
| Ensembl | n/a | ENSMUSG00000045514 | ||||||||||||
| Refseq | NM_001001656 (mRNA) NP_001001656 (protein) |
NM_146383 (mRNA) NP_666495 (protein) |
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| Location | n/a | Chr 6: 40.5 - 40.5 Mb | ||||||||||||
| Pubmed search | [1] | [2] | ||||||||||||
Olfactory receptor, family 9, subfamily A, member 4, also known as OR9A4, 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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- Scherer SW, Cheung J, MacDonald JR, et al. (2003). "Human chromosome 7: DNA sequence and biology.". Science 300 (5620): 767–72. doi:. PMID 12690205.
- 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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