OR52K1

Olfactory receptor, family 52, subfamily K, member 1
Identifiers
Symbol(s)	OR52K1; OR11-8
External IDs	Homologene: 17506
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
RNA expression pattern
250px More reference expression data
Orthologs
	Human	Mouse
Entrez	390036	na
Ensembl	ENSG00000196778	na
Uniprot	Q8NGK4	na
Refseq	NM_001005171 (mRNA) NP_001005171 (protein)	na (mRNA) na (protein)
Location	Chr 11: 4.47 - 4.47 Mb	na
Pubmed search	[1]	na

Olfactory receptor, family 52, subfamily K, member 1, also known as OR52K1, 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

• 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.

External links

• MeSH OR52K1+protein,+human

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