OR2A4
{{Short description|Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens}}
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Olfactory receptor 2A4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR2A4 gene.{{cite web | title = Entrez Gene: OR2A4 olfactory receptor, family 2, subfamily A, member 4| url = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=79541}}
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.
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- {{cite journal | author=Dias Neto E |title=Shotgun sequencing of the human transcriptome with ORF expressed sequence tags |journal=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. |volume=97 |issue= 7 |pages= 3491–6 |year= 2000 |pmid= 10737800 |doi=10.1073/pnas.97.7.3491 | pmc=16267 |name-list-style=vanc| author2=Correa RG | author3=Verjovski-Almeida S | display-authors=3 | last4=Briones | first4=MR | last5=Nagai | first5=MA | last6=Da Silva Jr | first6=W | last7=Zago | first7=MA | last8=Bordin | first8=S | last9=Costa | first9=FF |bibcode=2000PNAS...97.3491D |doi-access=free }}
- {{cite journal | author=Strausberg RL |title=Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences |journal=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. |volume=99 |issue= 26 |pages= 16899–903 |year= 2003 |pmid= 12477932 |doi= 10.1073/pnas.242603899 | pmc=139241 |name-list-style=vanc| author2=Feingold EA | author3=Grouse LH | display-authors=3 | last4=Derge | first4=JG | last5=Klausner | first5=RD | last6=Collins | first6=FS | last7=Wagner | first7=L | last8=Shenmen | first8=CM | last9=Schuler | first9=GD |bibcode=2002PNAS...9916899M |doi-access=free }}
- {{cite journal | author=Mungall AJ |title=The DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 6 |journal=Nature |volume=425 |issue= 6960 |pages= 805–11 |year= 2003 |pmid= 14574404 |doi= 10.1038/nature02055 |name-list-style=vanc| author2=Palmer SA | author3=Sims SK | display-authors=3 | last4=Edwards | first4=C. A. | last5=Ashurst | first5=J. L. | last6=Wilming | first6=L. | last7=Jones | first7=M. C. | last8=Horton | first8=R. | last9=Hunt | first9=S. E. |bibcode=2003Natur.425..805M | doi-access=free }}
- {{cite journal |vauthors=Malnic B, Godfrey PA, Buck LB |title=The human olfactory receptor gene family |journal=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. |volume=101 |issue= 8 |pages= 2584–9 |year= 2004 |pmid= 14983052 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0307882100 | pmc=356993 |bibcode=2004PNAS..101.2584M |doi-access=free }}
- {{cite journal | author=Gerhard DS |title=The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC) |journal=Genome Res. |volume=14 |issue= 10B |pages= 2121–7 |year= 2004 |pmid= 15489334 |doi= 10.1101/gr.2596504 | pmc=528928 |name-list-style=vanc| author2=Wagner L | author3=Feingold EA | display-authors=3 | last4=Shenmen | first4=CM | last5=Grouse | first5=LH | last6=Schuler | first6=G | last7=Klein | first7=SL | last8=Old | first8=S | last9=Rasooly | first9=R }}
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