OR5AK2

OR5AK2
Identifiers
Aliases OR5AK2
External IDs MGI: 3030827 HomoloGene: 79352 GeneCards: OR5AK2
RNA expression pattern


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Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

390181

258427

Ensembl

ENSG00000181273

ENSMUSG00000075220

UniProt

Q8NH90

n/a

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001005323

NM_146435

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001005323.1

n/a

Location (UCSC) Chr 11: 56.99 – 56.99 Mb Chr 2: 85.41 – 85.41 Mb
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Olfactory receptor 5AK2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR5AK2 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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