OR9K2

OR9K2
Identifiers
Aliases OR9K2, OR12-2, olfactory receptor family 9 subfamily K member 2
External IDs MGI: 3030659 HomoloGene: 121503 GeneCards: OR9K2
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Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

441639

258672

Ensembl

ENSG00000170605

ENSMUSG00000058084

UniProt

Q8NGE7

n/a

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001005243

NM_146677

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001005243.1

n/a

Location (UCSC) Chr 12: 55.13 – 55.13 Mb Chr 10: 130.16 – 130.16 Mb
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Olfactory receptor 9K2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR9K2 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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