GPR84

Probable G-protein coupled receptor 84 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GPR84 gene.

Discovery

GPR84 (EX33) was described practically in the same time by two groups. One was the group of Timo Wittenberger in the Zentrum fur Molekulare Neurobiologie, Hamburg, Germany (Wittenberg T. et al.) and the other was the group of Gabor Jarai in Novartis Horsham Research Centre, Horsham, United Kingdom. In their papers they described the sequence and expression profile of five new members of GPC receptor family. One among them was GPR84 which represents a unique GPCR sub-family so far.

Gene

Hgpr84 locates to chromosome 12q13.13, and its coding sequence is not interrupted by introns.

Protein