OR4N4

OR4N4
Identifiers
Aliases	OR4N4, OR15-1, OR15-5, olfactory receptor family 4 subfamily N member 4
External IDs	HomoloGene: 72012 GeneCards: OR4N4
Gene ontology Molecular function • G-protein coupled receptor activity • olfactory receptor activity • transmembrane signaling receptor activity • signal transducer activity Cellular component • membrane • plasma membrane • integral component of membrane Biological process • sensory perception of smell • detection of chemical stimulus involved in sensory perception of smell • detection of chemical stimulus involved in sensory perception • signal transduction • response to stimulus • G-protein coupled receptor signaling pathway Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	283694	n/a
Ensembl	ENSG00000183706	n/a
UniProt	Q8N0Y3	n/a
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_001005241	n/a
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001005241.2	n/a
Location (UCSC)	Chr 15: 22.09 – 22.1 Mb	n/a
PubMed search	[1]	n/a
Wikidata

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Olfactory receptor 4N4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR4N4 gene.^[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]

See also

• Olfactory receptor

References

1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
2. "Entrez Gene: OR4N4 olfactory receptor, family 4, subfamily N, member 4".

Further reading

• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039.
• 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

• OR4N4 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.