GPR87

G protein-coupled receptor 87
Identifiers
Symbol(s)	GPR87; FKSG78; GPR95; KPG_002; MGC131898
External IDs	OMIM: 606379 MGI: 1934133 Homologene: 13021
Gene ontology Molecular Function: • rhodopsin-like receptor activity • receptor activity • purinergic nucleotide receptor activity, G-protein coupled Cellular Component: • membrane • integral to membrane Biological Process: • signal transduction • G-protein coupled receptor protein signaling pathway • biological_process
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
	Human	Mouse
Entrez	53836	84111
Ensembl	ENSG00000138271	ENSMUSG00000051431
Uniprot	Q9BY21	Q059H2
Refseq	NM_023915 (mRNA) NP_076404 (protein)	NM_032399 (mRNA) NP_115775 (protein)
Location	Chr 3: 152.49 - 152.52 Mb	Chr 3: 59.27 - 59.28 Mb
Pubmed search	[1]	[2]

G protein-coupled receptor 87, also known as GPR87, is a human gene.

G protein-coupled receptors play a role in cell communication. They are characterized by an extracellular N terminus, 7 transmembrane regions, and an intracellular C terminus.[supplied by OMIM]

Further reading

• Wittenberger T, Schaller HC, Hellebrand S (2001). "An expressed sequence tag (EST) data mining strategy succeeding in the discovery of new G-protein coupled receptors.". J. Mol. Biol. 307 (3): 799-813. doi:10.1006/jmbi.2001.4520. PMID 11273702.
• Lee DK, Nguyen T, Lynch KR, et al. (2001). "Discovery and mapping of ten novel G protein-coupled receptor genes.". Gene 275 (1): 83-91. PMID 11574155.
• 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.
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, et al. (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs.". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40-5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039.
• 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.