olfactory receptor 1B1; olfactory receptor OR9-26; olfactory receptor 9-B; OR9-B (OR1B1)

Function

odorant receptor (putative)

Structure

belongs to the G-protein coupled receptor 1 family

Compartment

cell membrane

Polymorphism

• a stop codon at position Arg-192 in the gene coding OR1B1 is more frequent in non-Africans than in African-Americans

More general terms

• olfactory receptor, family 1

Database

• Entrez gene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Graphics&list_uids=26746
• Kegg: http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/www_bget?hsa:3471
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q8NGR6.html