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There are several domains within MVP, among the most important is the highly conserved<scene name='78/783129/C-terminus/2'> α- helical domain</scene> near the C-terminus that functions as a coiled coil which mediates an interaction between different MVPs and subsequently vault formation. The N-terminal of MVP was reported to bind Ca2+, but while it has been speculated that MVP contains at least two Ca2+-binding [[EF hand]]s in<scene name='78/783129/Ef-hand_location/1'> positions 131–143</scene> <ref> Yu, Z., Fotouhi-Ardakani, N., Wu, L., Maoui, M., Wang, S., Banville, D., and Shen, S. H. (2002) PTEN associates with the vault particles in HeLa cells. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 40247 – 40252. </ref> , substructure determinations by NMR could not confirm these EF hands and thus an alternative Ca2+ mechanism was suggested which included coordination by large number of <scene name='78/783129/Beta_loops/1'>acidic residues in the long β1/β2 and β2/β3 loops</scene> (Figure 1) of multiple MVP domains <ref> Kozlov, G., Vavelyuk, O., Minailiuc, O., Banville, D., Gehring, K., and Ekiel, I. (2006) Solution structure of a two-repeat fragment of major vault protein. J. Mol. Biol. 356, 444 – 452 </ref> , in a way similar to that found in[[ integrin]]s. | There are several domains within MVP, among the most important is the highly conserved<scene name='78/783129/C-terminus/2'> α- helical domain</scene> near the C-terminus that functions as a coiled coil which mediates an interaction between different MVPs and subsequently vault formation. The N-terminal of MVP was reported to bind Ca2+, but while it has been speculated that MVP contains at least two Ca2+-binding [[EF hand]]s in<scene name='78/783129/Ef-hand_location/1'> positions 131–143</scene> <ref> Yu, Z., Fotouhi-Ardakani, N., Wu, L., Maoui, M., Wang, S., Banville, D., and Shen, S. H. (2002) PTEN associates with the vault particles in HeLa cells. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 40247 – 40252. </ref> , substructure determinations by NMR could not confirm these EF hands and thus an alternative Ca2+ mechanism was suggested which included coordination by large number of <scene name='78/783129/Beta_loops/1'>acidic residues in the long β1/β2 and β2/β3 loops</scene> (Figure 1) of multiple MVP domains <ref> Kozlov, G., Vavelyuk, O., Minailiuc, O., Banville, D., Gehring, K., and Ekiel, I. (2006) Solution structure of a two-repeat fragment of major vault protein. J. Mol. Biol. 356, 444 – 452 </ref> , in a way similar to that found in[[ integrin]]s. | ||
[[Image:Pdbnmr.jpg | thumb | '''Figure 1-''' The structure of the two domain fragment of MVP, depicted by NMR. Taken from the [[ | [[Image:Pdbnmr.jpg | thumb | '''Figure 1-''' The structure of the two domain fragment of MVP, depicted by NMR. Taken from the [[1y7x]] entry in the PBD. credit to: Kozlov, G., Vavelyuk, O., Minailiuc, O., Banville, D., Gehring, K., and Ekiel, I. (2006) Solution structure of a two-repeat fragment of major vault protein. J. Mol. Biol. 356, 444 – 452.]] | ||
==The MVP gene, transcription, translation and post translation modifications== | ==The MVP gene, transcription, translation and post translation modifications== | ||