- OR4N4
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Olfactory receptor, family 4, subfamily N, member 4 Identifiers Symbols OR4N4; OR15-1; OR15-5 External IDs MGI: 3030566 HomoloGene: 72012 GeneCards: OR4N4 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 Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 283694 258659 Ensembl ENSG00000183706 ENSMUSG00000091873 UniProt Q8N0Y3 n/a RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001005241 NM_146665.2 RefSeq (protein) NP_001005241 NP_666876.1 Location (UCSC) Chr 15:
22.38 – 22.38 MbChr 14:
50.9 – 50.9 MbPubMed search [1] [2] Olfactory receptor 4N4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR4N4 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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- 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. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=356993.
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