OR51B2

Olfactory receptor, family 51, subfamily B, member 2
Identifiers
Symbols	OR51B2 ; HOR5'Beta3; OR51B1P
External IDs	Template:MGI HomoloGene: 56593
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Species	Human	Mouse
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Olfactory receptor, family 51, subfamily B, member 2, also known as OR51B2, is a human 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

• Bulger M, van Doorninck JH, Saitoh N; et al. (1999). "Conservation of sequence and structure flanking the mouse and human beta-globin loci: the beta-globin genes are embedded within an array of odorant receptor genes". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96 (9): 5129–34. PMID 10220430.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Bulger M, Bender MA, van Doorninck JH; et al. (2001). "Comparative structural and functional analysis of the olfactory receptor genes flanking the human and mouse beta-globin gene clusters". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 (26): 14560–5. doi:10.1073/pnas.97.26.14560. PMID 11121057.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. PMID 12213199.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH; et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMID 12477932.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)

External links

• OR51B2+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.