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OR8H3
Identifiers
Aliases	OR8H3, OR11-172, olfactory receptor family 8 subfamily H member 3
External IDs	MGI: 3030934; GeneCards: OR8H3
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 11 (human) Band 11q12.1 Start 56,122,373 bp End 56,123,311 bp
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 2 (mouse) Band 2|2 D Start 86,806,373 bp End 86,810,298 bp
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in kidney multicellular organism n/a More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function G protein-coupled receptor activity odorant binding olfactory receptor activity signal transducer activity Cellular component integral component of membrane plasma membrane membrane Biological process sensory perception of smell signal transduction response to stimulus detection of chemical stimulus involved in sensory perception of smell G protein-coupled receptor signaling pathway Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Databases NCBI: entry; OMA: entry Species Human Mouse Entrez 390152 258587 Ensembl ENSG00000181761 ENSMUSG00000070875 UniProt Q8N146 Q8VFM1 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001005201 NM_146594 RefSeq (protein) NP_001005201 NP_666805 Location (UCSC) Chr 11: 56.12 – 56.12 Mb Chr 2: 86.81 – 86.81 Mb PubMed search
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Olfactory receptor 8H3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR8H3 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

• Malnic B, Godfrey PA, Buck LB (2004). "The human olfactory receptor gene family". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101 (8): 2584–9. Bibcode:2004PNAS..101.2584M. doi:10.1073/pnas.0307882100. PMC 356993. PMID 14983052.

External links

• OR8H3+protein,+human at the U.S. 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.