OR9A4
Olfactory receptor, family 9, subfamily A, member 4 | |||||||||||||
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Symbol | OR9A4 | ||||||||||||
External IDs | MGI: 3030294 HomoloGene: 64866 GeneCards: OR9A4 Gene | ||||||||||||
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Species | Human | Mouse | |||||||||||
Entrez | 130075 | 258381 | |||||||||||
Ensembl | ENSG00000258083 | ENSMUSG00000045514 | |||||||||||
UniProt | Q8NGU2 | Q8VF31 | |||||||||||
RefSeq (mRNA) | NM_001001656 | NM_146383 | |||||||||||
RefSeq (protein) | NP_001001656 | NP_666495 | |||||||||||
Location (UCSC) |
Chr 7: 141.92 – 141.92 Mb |
Chr 6: 40.57 – 40.57 Mb | |||||||||||
PubMed search | |||||||||||||
Olfactory receptor 9A4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR9A4 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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References
Further reading
- Scherer SW, Cheung J, MacDonald JR, et al. (2003). "Human chromosome 7: DNA sequence and biology.". Science 300 (5620): 767–72. doi:10.1126/science.1083423. PMC 2882961. 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. doi:10.1073/pnas.0307882100. PMC 356993. PMID 14983052.
External links
- OR9A4 protein, human at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.
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