OR8K5
Identifiers
Aliases	OR8K5, OR11-174, olfactory receptor family 8 subfamily K member 5
External IDs	MGI: 3030887; HomoloGene: 74197; GeneCards: OR8K5; OMA:OR8K5 - orthologs
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 11 (human)[1] Band 11q12.1 Start 56,159,394 bp[1] End 56,160,317 bp[1]
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 2 (mouse)[2] Band 2|2 D Start 86,144,687 bp[2] End 86,145,628 bp[2]
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function Cellular component Biological process Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 219453 257974 Ensembl ENSG00000181752 ENSMUSG00000075192 UniProt Q8NH50 L7MU59 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001004058 NM_001177857 RefSeq (protein) NP_001004058 NP_001171328 Location (UCSC) Chr 11: 56.16 – 56.16 Mb Chr 2: 86.14 – 86.15 Mb PubMed search [3] [4]
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Olfactory receptor 8K5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR8K5 gene.^[5]

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.^[5]

• Olfactory receptor

• OR8K5+protein,+human at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

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