Rat liver vault

The Structure of Rat Liver Vault at 3.5 Angstrom Resolution

Hideaki Tanaka, Koji Kato, Eiki Yamashita, Tomoyuki Sumizawa, Yong Zhou, Min Yao,
Kenji Iwasaki, Masato Yoshimura, Tomitake Tsukihara

Science 323, 384-388 (2009)

Full Text in Science is here.


PDB Files

1 Major Vault Protein (MVP) monomer (492KB)　
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2 Half Vault (39mer of MVP) (18.7MB)　　
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3 Half Vault (39mer of MVP) related 2-fold symmetry (18.7MB)　
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*Whole vault shell is composed of two pdb files, 2 and 3.


The structure of rat liver vault




Vault Movie