Odorant receptor probes used in this study
| Odorant receptor probe | Insert/probe length (kb) | 5′ UTR | Coding region (kb) | 3′ UTR (kb) | Closest mouse OR homolog |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR14a | 1.6 | 0 | 0.91 | 0.66 | MOR161-2 |
| OR16 | 2.0 | 0 | 0.81 | 1.19 | MOR258-2 |
| OR37a | 2.1 | 0 | 0.89 | 1.21 | MOR262-8 |
| OR18a | 1.58 | 0.56 kb | 0.93 | 0.09 | MOR231-12 |
| OR133/F12b | 1.67 | 0.37 kb | 0.93 | 0.37 | MOR139-5c |
| OR107a | 1.42 | 0.18 kb | 0.93 | 0.31 | MOR183-2 |
| 17d | 3.5 | 0.52 kb | 0.98 | 2.0 | MOR103-15 |
| OR124 | 1.1 | 0 | 0.78 | 0.32 | MOR246-2 |
Nucleotide sequence was verified for each of the probes.
↵ a ISH labeling with this probe is illustrated in Strotmann et al. (1994a,b).
↵ b OR133 has the identical sequence as F12; ISH labeling with F12 was illustrated in Vassar et al. (1993).
↵ c A full-length coding sequence is found in GenBank and derives from the C57BL/6J genome, which was used by the public mouse genome sequencing effort. The closest homolog in the Celera database is MOR139-5P, which is putatively identified as a pseudogene in the mouse strains, which did not include C57BL/6J, used by Celera (Zhang and Firestein, 2002).
↵ d ISH labeling with this probe is illustrated in Vassar et al. (1993).