OR51B4

An Error has occurred retrieving Wikidata item for infobox Olfactory receptor 51B4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR51B4 gene.

Function

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

• Bulger M, van Doorninck JH, Saitoh N, Telling A, Farrell C, Bender MA, Felsenfeld G, Axel R, Groudine M, von Doorninck JH (April 1999). "Conservation of sequence and structure flanking the mouse and human beta-globin loci: the beta-globin genes are embedded within an array of odorant receptor genes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 96 (9): 5129–34. Bibcode:1999PNAS...96.5129B. doi:10.1073/pnas.96.9.5129. PMC 21828. PMID 10220430.
• Bulger M, Bender MA, van Doorninck JH, Wertman B, Farrell CM, Felsenfeld G, Groudine M, Hardison R (December 2000). "Comparative structural and functional analysis of the olfactory receptor genes flanking the human and mouse beta-globin gene clusters". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 97 (26): 14560–5. Bibcode:2000PNAS...9714560B. doi:10.1073/pnas.97.26.14560. PMC 18958. PMID 11121057.

External links

• OR51B4+protein,+human at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

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