OR2B3

Olfactory receptor, family 2, subfamily B, member 3
Identifiers
Symbols	OR2B3 ; 6M1-1; OR2B3P; OR6-14; OR6-4
External IDs	HomoloGene: 67858 GeneCards: OR2B3 Gene
Gene ontology Molecular function • G-protein coupled receptor activity • olfactory receptor activity Cellular component • plasma membrane • integral component of membrane Biological process • G-protein coupled receptor signaling pathway • sensory perception of smell • detection of chemical stimulus involved in sensory perception of smell Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	442184	n/a
Ensembl	ENSG00000204703	n/a
UniProt	O76000	n/a
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_001005226	n/a
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001005226	n/a
Location (UCSC)	Chr 6: 29.09 – 29.09 Mb	n/a
PubMed search	[1]	n/a

Putative olfactory receptor 2B3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR2B3 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. doi:10.1006/geno.2002.6830. PMID 12213199. 
• 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. 
• Malnic B, Godfrey PA, Buck LB (2004). "The human olfactory receptor gene family". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101 (8): 2584–9. doi:10.1073/pnas.0307882100. PMC 356993. PMID 14983052. 

External links

• OR2B3 protein, human at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

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