OBP2B

OBP2B
Identifiers
Aliases	OBP2B, LCN14, OBPIIb, odorant binding protein 2B
External IDs	OMIM: 604606; MGI: 2387617; GeneCards: OBP2B
Gene location (Human)
Chr.	Chromosome 9 (human)
End	133,209,250 bp
Gene location (Mouse)
Chr.	Chromosome 2 (mouse)
End	25,593,338 bp
RNA expression pattern
	Top expressed in
	right testis; ; left testis; ; right uterine tube; ; skin of abdomen; ; skin of leg; ; lactiferous gland; ; apex of heart; ; spleen; ; left ventricle; ; placenta;
	Top expressed in
	olfactory epithelium; ; extraocular muscle; ; left lobe of liver; ; blastocyst; ; temporal muscle; ; digastric muscle; ; stomach; ; uterus; ; thymus; ; sexually immature organism;
	More reference expression data
	n/a
Gene ontology
Molecular function	odorant binding; small molecule binding;
Cellular component	extracellular region; cellular component;
Biological process	chemosensory behavior; response to stimulus; sensory perception of smell;
	Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
Databases	NCBI: entry; OMA: entry
	29989
	227627
	ENSG00000280584; ENSG00000171102
	ENSMUSG00000062061
	Q9NPH6
	Q8K1H9
	NM_001288987; NM_014581
	NM_153558
	NP_001275916; NP_055396
	NP_705786
	Wikidata
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Odorant-binding protein 2B is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OBP2B gene.

References

Pevsner J, Reed RR, Feinstein PG, Snyder SH (July 1988). "Molecular cloning of odorant-binding protein: member of a ligand carrier family". Science. 241 (4863). New York, N.Y.: 336–339. Bibcode:1988Sci...241..336P. doi:10.1126/science.3388043. PMID 3388043.
Briand L, Eloit C, Nespoulous C, Bézirard V, Huet JC, Henry C, et al. (June 2002). "Evidence of an odorant-binding protein in the human olfactory mucus: location, structural characterization, and odorant-binding properties". Biochemistry. 41 (23): 7241–7252. doi:10.1021/bi015916c. PMID 12044155.
Lacazette E, Gachon AM, Pitiot G (January 2000). "A novel human odorant-binding protein gene family resulting from genomic duplicons at 9q34: differential expression in the oral and genital spheres". Human Molecular Genetics. 9 (2): 289–301. doi:10.1093/hmg/9.2.289. PMID 10607840.
Desch KC, Ozel AB, Siemieniak D, Kalish Y, Shavit JA, Thornburg CD, et al. (January 2013). "Linkage analysis identifies a locus for plasma von Willebrand factor undetected by genome-wide association". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110 (2): 588–593. Bibcode:2013PNAS..110..588D. doi:10.1073/pnas.1219885110. PMC 3545809. PMID 23267103.

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