Major vault protein is a
protein
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that in humans is encoded by the ''MVP''
gene
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.
78 copies of the protein assemble into the large compartments called
vaults.
Function
This gene encodes the major vault protein which is a lung infection resistance-related protein.
Vaults are multi-subunit structures that may be involved in
nucleo-cytoplasmic transport. This protein mediates drug resistance, perhaps via a transport process. It is widely distributed in normal tissues, and overexpressed in multidrug-resistant cancer cells. The protein overexpression is a potentially useful marker of clinical drug resistance. This gene produces two transcripts by using two alternative exon 2 sequences; however, the
open reading frame
In molecular biology, open reading frames (ORFs) are defined as spans of DNA sequence between the start and stop codons. Usually, this is considered within a studied region of a prokaryotic DNA sequence, where only one of the six possible readin ...
s are the same in both transcripts.
Interactions
Major vault protein has been shown to
interact
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with
Estrogen receptor alpha
Estrogen receptor alpha (ERĪ±), also known as NR3A1 (nuclear receptor subfamily 3, group A, member 1), is one of two main types of estrogen receptor, a nuclear receptor (mainly found as a chromatin-binding protein)
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,
and
PARP4
Poly DP-ribosepolymerase 4 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''PARP4'' gene.
This gene encodes poly(ADP-ribosyl)transferase-like 1 protein, which is capable of catalyzing a poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation reaction. This protein has a catalyti ...
.
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Human proteins
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