- OR8H2
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Olfactory receptor, family 8, subfamily H, member 2 Identifiers Symbols OR8H2; OR11-171 External IDs HomoloGene: 74088 GeneCards: OR8H2 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 390151 258587 Ensembl ENSG00000181767 ENSMUSG00000070875 UniProt Q8N162 n/a RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001005200 NM_146594.1 RefSeq (protein) NP_001005200 NP_666805.1 Location (UCSC) Chr 11:
55.87 – 55.87 MbChr 2:
86.82 – 86.82 MbPubMed search [1] [2] Olfactory receptor 8H2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR8H2 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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- 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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