OR4K15

OR4K15
Identifiers
Aliases OR4K15, OR14-20, OR4K15Q, olfactory receptor family 4 subfamily K member 15
External IDs MGI: 3030561 HomoloGene: 84571 GeneCards: OR4K15
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

81127

258316

Ensembl

ENSG00000169488

ENSMUSG00000059488

UniProt

Q8NH41

n/a

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001005486

NM_146319

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001005486.1

n/a

Location (UCSC) Chr 14: 19.98 – 19.98 Mb Chr 14: 50.13 – 50.13 Mb
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Olfactory receptor 4K15 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR4K15 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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