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Major Vault Protein

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Major vault protein (893 aa, ~100 kDa) is encoded by the human MVP gene. This protein plays a role in both the structure and function of vault ribonucleoprotein complexes. [ ]

Term info

Label

Major Vault Protein

Synonyms
  • Lung Resistance-Related Protein
  • MVP
  • Major Vault Protein
Subsets

NCIT_C116977, NCIT_C142800, NCIT_C142799

DesignNote

The vault ribonucleoprotein particle is a huge cage structure (400 A x 670 A) of 12.9 MDa. It consists of a dimer of half-vaults, each half-vault is comprised of 39 identical major vault protein (MVP) chains, PARP4 and one or more vault RNAs (vRNAs). (UniProt)

Display Name

Major Vault Protein

OMIM Number

605088

Preferred Name

Major Vault Protein

Semantic Type

Amino Acid, Peptide, or Protein

Swiss Prot

Q14764

UMLS CUI

C0293442

code

C104704