OR2B11

Olfactory receptor, family 2, subfamily B, member 11
Identifiers
Symbol	OR2B11
External IDs	MGI: 3030056 HomoloGene: 71979 GeneCards: OR2B11 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	127623	257962
Ensembl	ENSG00000177535	ENSMUSG00000059610
UniProt	Q5JQS5	Q7TS30
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_001004492	NM_001011789
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001004492	NP_001011789
Location (UCSC)	Chr 1: 247.45 – 247.45 Mb	Chr 11: 59.57 – 59.57 Mb
PubMed search	[1]	[2]

Olfactory receptor 2B11 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR2B11 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

• Gregory SG, Barlow KF, McLay KE et al. (2006). "The DNA sequence and biological annotation of human chromosome 1.". Nature 441 (7091): 315–21. doi:10.1038/nature04727. PMID 16710414. 

External links

• OR2B11 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.