Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules

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GPR41/FFAR3

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6438-9_101609-1
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Synonyms

FFAR3; Free fatty acid receptor 3; Gm478; GPR41; G-protein coupled receptor 41

Historical Background

GPR41 (also known as free fatty acid receptor 3 or FFAR3) was identified as a G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) in 1997 (Sawzdargo et al. 1997). Sawzdargo et al. discovered GPR40–43, which were identified as tandemly encoded genes present on human chromosomal locus 19q13.1. Human GPR41 (hGPR41) had the same nucleotide length as human GPR42 (hGPR42) and differed by only six amino acids (Sawzdargo et al. 1997). Brown et al. performed similarity searches using public sequence databases to find mammalian orthologues of the hGPR41/hGPR42 pair. They found the mouse locus, which was syntenic with human 19q13.1, contained GPR40–43 orthologues. Only one orthologue of the hGPR41/hGPR42 pair was detected (72% amino acid similarity to hGPR41) (Brown et al. 2003). They also identified bovine and rat orthologues from the overlapping sequences. The amino acid sequences of the orthologues...

Keywords

Allergic Airway Inflammation GPR41 Expression Free Fatty Acid Receptor GPR41 Agonist Gpr41 mRNA 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Applied Biological Science, Graduate School of AgricultureTokyo University of Agriculture and TechnologyTokyoJapan