OR13A1

Olfactory receptor, family 13, subfamily A, member 1
Identifiers
Symbol(s)	OR13A1; FLJ16797
External IDs	MGI: 3030045 Homologene: 17434
Gene ontology Molecular Function: • receptor activity • olfactory receptor activity Cellular Component: • membrane • integral to membrane Biological Process: • signal transduction • G-protein coupled receptor protein signaling pathway • sensory perception of smell • response to stimulus
Orthologs
	Human	Mouse
Entrez	79290	258914
Ensembl	ENSG00000172678	ENSMUSG00000053391
Uniprot	Q8NGR1	na
Refseq	NM_001004297 (mRNA) NP_001004297 (protein)	NM_146912 (mRNA) NP_667123 (protein)
Location	Chr 10: 45.12 - 45.12 Mb	Chr 6: 116.46 - 116.46 Mb
Pubmed search	[1]	[2]

Olfactory receptor, family 13, subfamily A, member 1, also known as OR13A1, 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

• 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.
• 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.
• Deloukas P, Earthrowl ME, Grafham DV, et al. (2004). "The DNA sequence and comparative analysis of human chromosome 10.". Nature 429 (6990): 375-81. doi:10.1038/nature02462. PMID 15164054.

External links

• MeSH OR13A1+protein,+human

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