OR56A4
An Error has occurred retrieving Wikidata item for infobox Olfactory receptor 56A4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR56A4 gene.[1] 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.[1]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Entrez Gene: OR56A4 olfactory receptor, family 56, subfamily A, member 4".
- ↑ Adipietro KA, Mainland JD, Matsunami H (2012). "Functional evolution of mammalian odorant receptors". PLOS Genetics. 8 (7): e1002821. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002821. PMC 3395614. PMID 22807691.
- ↑ Mainland JD, Keller A, Li YR, Zhou T, Trimmer C, Snyder LL, et al. (January 2014). "The missense of smell: functional variability in the human odorant receptor repertoire". Nature Neuroscience. 17 (1): 114–20. doi:10.1038/nn.3598. PMC 3990440. PMID 24316890.
Further reading
- Malnic B, Godfrey PA, Buck LB (2004). "The human olfactory receptor gene family". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101 (8): 2584–9. Bibcode:2004PNAS..101.2584M. doi:10.1073/pnas.0307882100. PMC 356993. PMID 14983052.
External links
- OR56A4+protein,+human at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
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