Primary Information
BoMiProt ID	Bomi383
Protein Name	Vertnin
Organism	Bos taurus
Uniprot ID	E1BP92
Milk Fraction	Exosome
Aminoacid Length	658
Molecular Weight	73600
FASTA Sequence	Download
Gene Name	VRTN
Protein Existence Status	Reviewed: Protein inferred from homology
Secondary Information
Protein Function	associated with thoracic vertebral number (TVN) in pigs; VRTN has the potential to act as a genetic marker of IMF(Intramuscular fat content).
Site(s) of PTM(s) N-glycosylation, O-glycosylation, Phosphorylation
Predicted Disorder Regions	250-256,450-483,571-589
DisProt Annotation
TM Helix Prediction	No TM helices
Bibliography	1. Rohrer, G. A. et al. (2015) ‘A study of vertebra number in pigs confirms the association of vertnin and reveals additional QTL.’, BMC genetics, 16(1), p. 129. doi: 10.1186/s12863-015-0286-9. 2.Hirose K, Mikawa S, Okumura N, Noguchi G, Fukawa K, Kanaya N, Mikawa A, Arakawa A, Ito T, Hayashi Y, Tachibana F, Awata T. Association of swine vertnin (VRTN) gene with production traits in Duroc pigs improved using a closed nucleus breeding system. Anim Sci J. 2013 Mar;84(3):213-21. doi: 10.1111/j.1740-0929.2012.01066.x. Epub 2012 Nov 2. PMID: 23480701.