OR5L2

Olfactory receptor, family 5, subfamily L, member 2
Identifiers
Symbol(s)	OR5L2; HSHTPCRX16; HTPCRX16; OR11-153
External IDs	MGI: 3030990 Homologene: 72031
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	26338	258814
Ensembl	ENSG00000205030	ENSMUSG00000075144
Uniprot	Q8NGL0	na
Refseq	NM_001004739 (mRNA) NP_001004739 (protein)	NM_146817 (mRNA) NP_667028 (protein)
Location	Chr 11: 55.35 - 55.35 Mb	Chr 2: 87.75 - 87.75 Mb
Pubmed search	[1]	[2]

Olfactory receptor, family 5, subfamily L, member 2, also known as OR5L2, 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

• Parmentier M, Libert F, Schurmans S, et al. (1992). "Expression of members of the putative olfactory receptor gene family in mammalian germ cells.". Nature 355 (6359): 453-5. doi:10.1038/355453a0. PMID 1370859.
• Fuchs T, Malecova B, Linhart C, et al. (2003). "DEFOG: a practical scheme for deciphering families of genes.". Genomics 80 (3): 295-302. PMID 12213199.
• 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 OR5L2+protein,+human

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