OR6C1

Olfactory receptor, family 6, subfamily C, member 1
Identifiers
Symbol(s)	OR6C1; OST267
External IDs	MGI: 3030636 Homologene: 17290
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	390321	258934
Ensembl	ENSG00000205330	ENSMUSG00000059414
Uniprot	Q96RD1	na
Refseq	NM_001005182 (mRNA) NP_001005182 (protein)	NM_146932 (mRNA) NP_667143 (protein)
Location	Chr 12: 54 - 54 Mb	Chr 10: 129.08 - 129.09 Mb
Pubmed search	[1]	[2]

Olfactory receptor, family 6, subfamily C, member 1, also known as OR6C1, 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

• 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.
• Scherer SE, Muzny DM, Buhay CJ, et al. (2006). "The finished DNA sequence of human chromosome 12.". Nature 440 (7082): 346-51. doi:10.1038/nature04569. PMID 16541075.

External links

• MeSH OR6C1+protein,+human

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