TAAR8

Trace amine associated receptor 8
Identifiers
Symbol(s)	TAAR8; GPR102; TA5; TAR5; TRAR5
External IDs	OMIM: 606927 MGI: 2685076 Homologene: 14242
Gene ontology Molecular Function: • rhodopsin-like receptor activity • receptor activity Cellular Component: • membrane • integral to membrane Biological Process: • signal transduction • G-protein coupled receptor protein signaling pathway
RNA expression pattern
250px More reference expression data
Orthologs
	Human	Mouse
Entrez	83551	215859
Ensembl	ENSG00000146385	ENSMUSG00000050804
Uniprot	Q969N4	Q5QD07
Refseq	NM_053278 (mRNA) NP_444508 (protein)	NM_001010830 (mRNA) NP_001010830 (protein)
Location	Chr 6: 132.92 - 132.92 Mb	Chr 10: 23.77 - 23.77 Mb
Pubmed search	[1]	[2]

Trace amine associated receptor 8, also known as TAAR8, is a human gene.

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs, or GPRs) contain 7 transmembrane domains and transduce extracellular signals through heterotrimeric G proteins.[supplied by OMIM]

See also

• Trace amine-associated receptor

Further reading

• Borowsky B, Adham N, Jones KA, et al. (2001). "Trace amines: identification of a family of mammalian G protein-coupled receptors.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98 (16): 8966-71. doi:10.1073/pnas.151105198. PMID 11459929.
• 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.
• Mungall AJ, Palmer SA, Sims SK, et al. (2003). "The DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 6.". Nature 425 (6960): 805-11. doi:10.1038/nature02055. PMID 14574404.
• 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.
• Lindemann L, Ebeling M, Kratochwil NA, et al. (2005). "Trace amine-associated receptors form structurally and functionally distinct subfamilies of novel G protein-coupled receptors.". Genomics 85 (3): 372-85. doi:10.1016/j.ygeno.2004.11.010. PMID 15718104.

This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.