OR8B2
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Aliases | OR8B2, OR11-309, OR11-310, olfactory receptor family 8 subfamily B member 2 | ||||||||||||||||
External IDs | MGI: 2660712 HomoloGene: 128279 GeneCards: OR8B2 | ||||||||||||||||
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Species | Human | Mouse | |||||||||||||||
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Location (UCSC) | Chr 11: 124.38 – 124.38 Mb | Chr 9: 38.4 – 38.4 Mb | |||||||||||||||
PubMed search | [1] | [2] | |||||||||||||||
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Olfactory receptor 8B2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR8B2 gene.[3]
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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Further reading
- 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.
- 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
- OR8B2 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.