OR6A2

Olfactory receptor, family 6, subfamily A, member 2
Identifiers
Symbols	OR6A2 ; I7; MGC126538; MGC126540; OR11-55; OR6A1; OR6A2P
External IDs	Template:OMIM5 Template:MGI HomoloGene: 2743
Gene ontology Molecular function Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Cellular component Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Biological process Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO
RNA expression pattern
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More reference expression data
Orthologs
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Species	Human	Mouse
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Olfactory receptor, family 6, subfamily A, member 2, also known as OR6A2, is a human gene.

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.

See also

• Olfactory receptor

Further reading

• Buettner JA, Glusman G, Ben-Arie N; et al. (1998). "Organization and evolution of olfactory receptor genes on human chromosome 11". Genomics. 53 (1): 56–68. doi:10.1006/geno.1998.5422. PMID 9787077.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Lane RP, Cutforth T, Young J; et al. (2001). "Genomic analysis of orthologous mouse and human olfactory receptor loci". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98 (13): 7390–5. doi:10.1073/pnas.131215398. PMID 11416212.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH; et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMID 12477932.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Malnic B, Godfrey PA, Buck LB (2004). "The human olfactory receptor gene family". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101 (8): 2584–9. PMID 14983052.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA; et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMID 15489334.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)

External links

• OR6A2+protein,+human at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.