VN1R1
Vomeronasal type-1 receptor 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the VN1R1 gene.[2][3]
Pheromones are chemical signals that elicit specific behavioral responses and physiologic alterations in recipients of the same species. The protein encoded by this gene is similar to pheromone receptors and is primarily localized to the olfactory mucosa. An alternate splice variant of this gene is thought to exist, but its full length nature has not been determined.[3]
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Further reading
- Giorgi D, Friedman C, Trask BJ, Rouquier S (2001). "Characterization of nonfunctional V1R-like pheromone receptor sequences in human". Genome Res. 10 (12): 1979–85. doi:10.1101/gr.10.12.1979. PMC 313059. PMID 11116092.
- Pantages E, Dulac C (2001). "A novel family of candidate pheromone receptors in mammals". Neuron. 28 (3): 835–45. doi:10.1016/S0896-6273(00)00157-4. PMID 11163270.
- Takeda S, Kadowaki S, Haga T, et al. (2002). "Identification of G protein-coupled receptor genes from the human genome sequence". FEBS Lett. 520 (1–3): 97–101. doi:10.1016/S0014-5793(02)02775-8. PMID 12044878.
- Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
- Zhang J, Webb DM (2003). "Evolutionary deterioration of the vomeronasal pheromone transduction pathway in catarrhine primates". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100 (14): 8337–41. doi:10.1073/pnas.1331721100. PMC 166230. PMID 12826614.
- Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, et al. (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039.
- Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
- Mitropoulos C, Papachatzopoulou A, Menounos PG, et al. (2007). "Association study of human VN1R1 pheromone receptor gene alleles and gender". Genet. Test. 11 (2): 128–32. doi:10.1089/gte.2006.0516. PMID 17627382.
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