OR56B4

Olfactory receptor 56B4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR56B4 gene.[4]

OR56B4
Identifiers
Aliases	OR56B4, OR11-67, olfactory receptor family 56 subfamily B member 4
External IDs	MGI: 3030497 HomoloGene: 133594 GeneCards: OR56B4
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 11 (human)[1] Band 11p15.4 Start 6,107,684 bp[1] End 6,108,835 bp[1]
RNA expression pattern More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function • G-protein coupled receptor activity • olfactory receptor activity • signal transducer activity Cellular component • integral component of membrane • cell membrane • membrane Biological process • sensory perception of smell • signal transduction • response to stimulus • detection of chemical stimulus involved in sensory perception of smell • G-protein coupled receptor signaling pathway Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	196335	257914
Ensembl	ENSG00000180919	ENSMUSG00000109806
UniProt	Q8NH76	Q7TRP6
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_001005181	NM_001011757
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001005181	NP_001011757
Location (UCSC)	Chr 11: 6.11 – 6.11 Mb	n/a
PubMed search	[2]	[3]
Wikidata
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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.[4]

References

1. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000180919 - Ensembl, May 2017
2. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
3. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
4. "Entrez Gene: OR56B4 olfactory receptor, family 56, subfamily B, member 4".

Further reading

• 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

• OR56B4+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.