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Olfactory receptor, family 8, subfamily B, member 8 Identifiers Symbols OR8B8; TPCR85 External IDs MGI: 2177528 HomoloGene: 56568 GeneCards: OR8B8 Gene Gene Ontology Molecular function • receptor activity
• olfactory receptor activityCellular component • plasma membrane
• integral to membraneBiological process • sensory perception of smell
• response to stimulusSources: Amigo / QuickGO RNA expression pattern 
More reference expression data Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 26493 258310 Ensembl ENSG00000197125 ENSMUSG00000066748 UniProt Q15620 Q60882 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_012378 NM_146313.1 RefSeq (protein) NP_036510 NP_666425.1 Location (UCSC) Chr 11:
124.31 – 124.31 MbChr 9:
37.7 – 37.71 MbPubMed search [1] [2] Olfactory receptor 8B8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR8B8 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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References
- ^ Vanderhaeghen P, Schurmans S, Vassart G, Parmentier M (Apr 1997). "Specific repertoire of olfactory receptor genes in the male germ cells of several mammalian species". Genomics 39 (3): 239–46. doi:10.1006/geno.1996.4490. PMID 9119360.
- ^ a b "Entrez Gene: OR8B8 olfactory receptor, family 8, subfamily B, member 8". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=26493.
Further reading
- Gaudin JC, Breuils L, Haertlé T (2002). "New GPCRs from a human lingual cDNA library". Chem. Senses 26 (9): 1157–66. doi:10.1093/chemse/26.9.1157. PMID 11705801.
- 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. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=356993.
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