OR2W3

OR2W3
Identifiers
Aliases OR2W3, OR2W3P, OR2W8P, OST718, olfactory receptor family 2 subfamily W member 3
External IDs MGI: 3030156 HomoloGene: 19876 GeneCards: OR2W3
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

343171

404346

Ensembl

ENSG00000238243

ENSMUSG00000063549

UniProt

Q7Z3T1

n/a

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001001957

NM_207693

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001001957.2

n/a

Location (UCSC) Chr 1: 247.9 – 247.9 Mb Chr 11: 58.67 – 58.67 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
Wikidata
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Olfactory receptor 2W3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR2W3 gene.[3][4]

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.[4]

See also

References

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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