OR2W3

Olfactory receptor, family 2, subfamily W, member 3
Identifiers
Symbols OR2W3 ; OR2W3P; OR2W8P; OST718
External IDs MGI: 3030151 HomoloGene: 19876 GeneCards: OR2W3 Gene
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 343171 404346
Ensembl ENSG00000238243 ENSMUSG00000063549
UniProt Q7Z3T1 Q5NCD6
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001001957 NM_207693
RefSeq (protein) NP_001001957 NP_997576
Location (UCSC) Chr 1:
247.9 – 247.9 Mb
Chr 11:
58.67 – 58.67 Mb
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Olfactory receptor 2W3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR2W3 gene.[1][2]

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.[2]

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Further reading

  • Hillier LD, Lennon G, Becker M, et al. (1997). "Generation and analysis of 280,000 human expressed sequence tags.". Genome Res. 6 (9): 807–28. doi:10.1101/gr.6.9.807. PMID 8889549. 
  • Fuchs T, Malecova B, Linhart C, et al. (2003). "DEFOG: a practical scheme for deciphering families of genes.". Genomics 80 (3): 295–302. doi:10.1006/geno.2002.6830. PMID 12213199. 

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