Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

OR6B3

Olfactory receptor 6B3

Also known as: OR6B3_HUMAN, OR6B3P, OR6B3Q

Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q8NGW1
Gene
OR6B3
Ensembl
ENSG00000178586
Chromosome
2
Canonical length
331 aa
Protein class
G-protein coupled receptors, Predicted membrane proteins
Subcellular location
Plasma membrane,Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

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. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

331 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q8NGW1|OR6B3
     1  MSGENVTRVG TFILVGFPTA PGLQYLLFLL FLLTYLFVLV ENLAIILTVW SSTSLHRPMY
    61  YFLSSMSFLE IWYVSDITPK MLEGFLLQQK RISFVGCMTQ LYFFSSLVCT ECVLLASMAY
   121  DRYVAICHPL RYHVLVTPGL CLQLVGFSFV SGFTISMIKV CFISSVTFCG SNVLNHFFCD
   181  ISPILKLACT DFSTAELVDF ILAFIILVFP LLATMLSYAH ITLAVLRIPS ATGCWRAFFT
   241  CASHLTVVTV FYTALLFMYV RPQAIDSRSS NKLISVLYTV ITPILNPLIY CLRNKEFKNA
   301  LKKAFGLTSC AVEGRLSSLL ELHLQIHSQP L

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against OR6B3 can act on the native protein depends on physical access: surface and secreted proteins are reachable by circulating antibodies, intracellular proteins usually are not.

Antibody reachability
Cell surface
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
7
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.29
Highest tissue expression
19 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • retina: 19 nTPM
  • epididymis: 0.9 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 0.4 nTPM
  • testis: 0.4 nTPM
  • midbrain: 0.2 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0.1 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • rod photoreceptor cells: 34 nCPM
  • sertoli cells: 5.9 nCPM
  • retinal amacrine cells: 2.2 nCPM
  • schwann cells: 2.2 nCPM
  • retinal horizontal cells: 2 nCPM
  • müller glia: 1.1 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • white matter: 0.4 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0.3 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0.3 nTPM
  • pons: 0.3 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 0.2 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 0.2 nTPM

Genetic constraint and essentialitygnomAD · DepMap

Does the body need this protein intact? Low LOEUF or a strong DepMap dependency means loss or blockade of the protein is likely to be felt.

gnomAD LOEUF (loss-of-function intolerance)
1.9
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.09
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.14
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 1% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).

OntologyGO

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads OR6B3 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against OR6B3 could matter depends on whether native OR6B3 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

OR6B3 is annotated at the cell surface, where native OR6B3 is exposed to circulating antibodies and is a prime autoantibody target that could block, deplete, or overstimulate it.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label OR6B3 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/OR6B3. Study-independent annotations aggregated from UniProt, Human Protein Atlas, PubMed, IEDB, Pfam, InterPro, Gene Ontology, AlphaFold, gnomAD, DepMap, ClinVar, TCGA. Catalog release seroatlas-reviewed-human-uniprot-20260313.

Seroatlas is the reference for exploring autoantibody and antibody serology at the human-protein level: the autoreactome and human serome, multiplex serology (HuProt, HuScan, VirScan, PhIP-Seq).

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