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Olfactomedin 3

Olfactomedin 3, also known as noelin 3 or optimedin, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OLFM3 gene.

Last revised
Jun 19, 2026
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Length
458 w
Citations
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Source
OLFM3
Identifiers
AliasesOLFM3, NOE3, NOELIN3, OPTIMEDIN, olfactomedin 3
External IDsOMIM: 607567; MGI: 2387329; HomoloGene: 17103; GeneCards: OLFM3; OMA:OLFM3 - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001288821
NM_001288823
NM_058170

NM_001286750
NM_153157
NM_153458

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001275750
NP_001275752
NP_477518

NP_001273679
NP_694797
NP_703188

Location (UCSC)Chr 1: 101.8 – 102 MbChr 3: 114.7 – 114.92 Mb
PubMed search34
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Olfactomedin 3, also known as noelin 3 or optimedin, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OLFM3 gene.567

Interactions

OLFM3 has been shown to interact with MYOC.5

References

References

  1. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000118733Ensembl, May 2017
  2. GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000027965Ensembl, May 2017
  3. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  4. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  5. Torrado M, Trivedi R, Zinovieva R, Karavanova I, Tomarev SI (May 2002). "Optimedin: a novel olfactomedin-related protein that interacts with myocilin". Hum Mol Genet. 11 (11): 1291–301. doi:10.1093/hmg/11.11.1291. PMID 12019210.
  6. Grinchuk O, Kozmik Z, Wu X, Tomarev S (Oct 2005). "The Optimedin gene is a downstream target of Pax6". J Biol Chem. 280 (42): 35228–37. doi:10.1074/jbc.M506195200. PMID 16115881.
  7. "Entrez Gene: OLFM3 olfactomedin 3".
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