OR2K2

OR2K2
Identifiers
Aliases	OR2K2, HSHTPCRH06, HTPCRH06, OR2AN1P, OR2AR1P, olfactory receptor family 2 subfamily K member 2
External IDs	MGI: 3030101 HomoloGene: 17436 GeneCards: OR2K2
Gene ontology Molecular function • G-protein coupled receptor activity • olfactory receptor activity • signal transducer activity Cellular component • integral component of membrane • plasma membrane • membrane Biological process • sensory perception of smell • G-protein coupled receptor signaling pathway • signal transduction • response to stimulus • detection of chemical stimulus involved in sensory perception of smell Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	26248	258922
Ensembl	ENSG00000171133	ENSMUSG00000043385
UniProt	Q8NGT1	n/a
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_205859	NM_146920
RefSeq (protein)	NP_995581.1	n/a
Location (UCSC)	Chr 9: 111.33 – 111.33 Mb	Chr 4: 58.78 – 58.79 Mb
PubMed search	[1]	[2]
Wikidata

Olfactory receptor 2K2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR2K2 gene.^[3][4][5]

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.^[5]

See also

• Olfactory receptor

References

Further reading

External links

• OR2K2 protein, human at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

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