Biology:OR13C2

Generic protein structure example

Olfactory receptor 13C2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR13C2 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

• "Organization and evolutionary relatedness of OR37 olfactory receptor genes in mouse and human.". Genomics 82 (3): 355–64. 2004. doi:10.1016/S0888-7543(03)00116-2. PMID 12906860. 
• "The human olfactory receptor gene family". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101 (8): 2584–9. 2004. doi:10.1073/pnas.0307882100. PMID 14983052. Bibcode: 2004PNAS..101.2584M. 
• "DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 9". Nature 429 (6990): 369–74. 2004. doi:10.1038/nature02465. PMID 15164053. Bibcode: 2004Natur.429..369H. 

External links

• OR13C2+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.