OR2W3

OR2W3
Olfactory receptor, family 2, subfamily W, member 3
Identifiers
Symbols OR2W3; OR2W3P; OR2W8P; OST718
External IDs MGI3030151 HomoloGene19876 GeneCards: OR2W3 Gene
RNA expression pattern
PBB GE OR2W3 gnf1h02157 at tn.png
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 343171 257931
Ensembl ENSG00000238243 ENSMUSG00000060030
UniProt Q7Z3T1 n/a
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001001957 NM_001011769.2
RefSeq (protein) NP_001001957 NP_001011769.2
Location (UCSC) Chr 1:
248.03 – 248.06 Mb
Chr 11:
58.55 – 58.55 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]

Olfactory receptor 2W3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR2W3 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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Further reading

  • Hillier LD, Lennon G, Becker M, et al. (1997). "Generation and analysis of 280,000 human expressed sequence tags.". Genome Res. 6 (9): 807–28. doi:10.1101/gr.6.9.807. PMID 8889549. 
  • 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. 

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Class II
(tetrapod specific receptors)

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