Biology:Major vault protein

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Short description: Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens

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Major vault protein, also known as lung resistance-related protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MVP gene.[1][2] 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. Major vault protein comprises 70% of vaults which also contain vPARP and TEP1.[3] 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 frames are the same in both transcripts.[2]

Interactions

Major vault protein coimmunoprecipitates with the human estrogen receptor and treatment with estradiol increases major vault protein associated with the estrogen receptor in nuclear extracts.[4]

Major vault protein has been shown to interact with estrogen receptor alpha,[5] PTEN[6] and PARP4.[7][8]

References

  1. "The drug resistance-related protein LRP is the human major vault protein". Nature Medicine 1 (6): 578–582. June 1995. doi:10.1038/nm0695-578. PMID 7585126. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Entrez Gene: MVP major vault protein". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=9961. 
  3. "Vaults and the major vault protein: novel roles in signal pathway regulation and immunity". Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 66 (1): 43–61. January 2009. doi:10.1007/s00018-008-8364-z. PMID 18759128. 
  4. "Structure of the vault, a ubiquitous celular component". Structure 7 (4): 371–379. April 1999. doi:10.1016/s0969-2126(99)80050-1. PMID 10196123. 
  5. "Interaction of vault particles with estrogen receptor in the MCF-7 breast cancer cell". The Journal of Cell Biology 141 (6): 1301–1310. June 1998. doi:10.1083/jcb.141.6.1301. PMID 9628887. 
  6. "PTEN associates with the vault particles in HeLa cells". The Journal of Biological Chemistry 277 (43): 40247–40252. October 2002. doi:10.1074/jbc.M207608200. PMID 12177006. 
  7. "Structural domains of vault proteins: a role for the coiled coil domain in vault assembly". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 291 (3): 535–541. March 2002. doi:10.1006/bbrc.2002.6472. PMID 11855821. 
  8. "The 193-kD vault protein, VPARP, is a novel poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase". The Journal of Cell Biology 146 (5): 917–928. September 1999. doi:10.1083/jcb.146.5.917. PMID 10477748. 

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