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or51ao2

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orthology

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 humans is independent of other organisms. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Xenopus OR gene nomenclature is based on an in-house assessment of all Xenopus OR gene using Mutual Maximum Similarity (MMS) algorithm, a systematic classifier for assigning a human-centric nomenclature to any OR gene based on inter-species hierarchical pairwise similarities, where we included human fish mouse and frog OR genes.

reference: PMID: 32295537 PMCID: PMC7160942 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-020-01607-6