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Olfactory receptor, family 8, subfamily A, member 1
Identifiers
Symbols	OR8A1; OR11-318; OST025
External IDs	MGI: 1931271 HomoloGene: 12726
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	390275	80706
Ensembl	ENSG00000196119	n/a
Uniprot	Q8NGG7	n/a
Refseq	NM_001005194 (mRNA) NP_001005194 (protein)	NM_030553 (mRNA) NP_085030 (protein)
Location	Chr 11: 123.95 - 123.95 Mb	n/a
Pubmed search	[1]	[2]

Olfactory receptor, family 8, subfamily A, member 1, also known as OR8A1, is a human gene.^[1]

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.^[1]

See also

• Olfactory receptor

References

Further reading

External links

• MeSH OR8A1+protein,+human

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