{"symbol":"OR4Q2","synonyms":["OR4Q2P"],"name":"olfactory receptor, family 4, subfamily Q, member 2 (gene/pseudogene)","description":"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. This olfactory receptor gene is a segregating pseudogene, where some individuals have an allele that encodes a functional olfactory receptor, while other individuals have an allele encoding a protein that is predicted to be non-functional. [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2017]","ncbiEntrezGeneId":390432,"ncbiEntrezGeneUrl":"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/390432","proteins":[{"symbol":"OR4Q2_HUMAN","href":"/api/1.0/protein/OR4Q2_HUMAN"}],"hgncRootFamilies":[{"name":"G protein-coupled receptors","href":"/api/1.0/gene_family/G+protein-coupled+receptors"}]}