OR2W3

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Olfactory receptor, family 2, subfamily W, member 3
Identifiers
Symbols	OR2W3; OR2W3P; OR2W8P; OST718
External IDs	MGI: 3030151 HomoloGene: 19876 GeneCards: OR2W3 Gene
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 Sources: Amigo / EGO
RNA expression pattern
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Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	343171	257931
Ensembl	ENSG00000198281	ENSMUSG00000060030
UniProt	Q7Z3T1	n/a
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_001001957	NM_001011769
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001001957	NP_001011769
Location (UCSC)	Chr 1: 246.13 - 246.13 Mb	Chr 11: 58.55 - 58.55 Mb
PubMed search	[1]	[2]

Olfactory receptor 2W3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR2W3 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

• Hillier LD, Lennon G, Becker M; et al. (1997). "Generation and analysis of 280,000 human expressed sequence tags". Genome Res. 6 (9): 807–28. doi:10.1101/gr.6.9.807. PMID 8889549. CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• 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. CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)

External links

• MeSH OR2W3+protein,+human

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