OR2L13

OR2L13
Identifiers
Aliases OR2L13, OR2L14, olfactory receptor family 2 subfamily L member 13
External IDs MGI: 3030000 HomoloGene: 88350 GeneCards: OR2L13
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

284521

259071

Ensembl

ENSG00000196071

ENSMUSG00000056822

UniProt

Q8N349

n/a

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001304535
NM_175911

NM_147068

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001291464.1
NP_787107.1

n/a

Location (UCSC) Chr 1: 247.94 – 248.1 Mb Chr 16: 19.49 – 19.49 Mb
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Olfactory receptor 2L13 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR2L13 gene.[3]

Function

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.[3]

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