OR5K2

OR5K2
Identifiers
Aliases OR5K2, OR3-9, olfactory receptor family 5 subfamily K member 2
External IDs MGI: 3030011 HomoloGene: 121500 GeneCards: OR5K2
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

402135

258998

Ensembl

ENSG00000231861

ENSMUSG00000063137

UniProt

Q8NHB8

n/a

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001004737

NM_146996

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001004737.1

n/a

Location (UCSC) Chr 3: 98.5 – 98.5 Mb Chr 16: 58.87 – 58.87 Mb
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Olfactory receptor 5K2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR5K2 gene.[3]

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.[3]

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