- OR2L8
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Olfactory receptor, family 2, subfamily L, member 8 Identifiers Symbols OR2L8; External IDs MGI: 3030002 HomoloGene: 115517 GeneCards: OR2L8 Gene Gene Ontology Molecular function • molecular_function
• receptor activity
• olfactory receptor activityCellular component • plasma membrane
• integral to membraneBiological process • sensory perception of smell
• biological_process
• response to stimulusSources: Amigo / QuickGO Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 391190 258937 Ensembl ENSG00000196936 ENSMUSG00000045341 UniProt Q8NGY9 n/a RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001001963 NM_146935.1 RefSeq (protein) NP_001001963 NP_667146.1 Location (UCSC) Chr 1:
248.11 – 248.11 MbChr 16:
19.51 – 19.52 MbPubMed search [1] [2] Olfactory receptor 2L8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR2L8 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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Further reading
- 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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