Olfactory Receptor Family 6 Subfamily A Member 2
OR11-55
OR6A2P
OR6A1
Olfactory Receptor OR11-83
Olfactory Receptor 11-55
Olfactory Receptor 6A2
HP2 Olfactory Receptor
Olfactory Receptor 6A1
Olfactory Receptor, Family 6, Subfamily A, Member 2 Pseudogene
Olfactory Receptor, Family 6, Subfamily A, Member 2
Olfactory Receptor, Family 6, Subfamily A, Member 1
Seven Transmembrane Helix Receptor
HI7 Olfactory Receptor
I7
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. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
Forensic Context
A study in human traumatic brain injury patients identified the OR6A2 as one of the top five downregulated mRNAs in brain contusion tissue compared to adjacent tissue, with a log2(fold change) of -5.46863 [Zhang et al. DOI:10.097/WNR.0000000000001756].