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Primary Information

BoMiProt ID Bomi148
Protein Name Vitamin D-binding protein
Organism Bos taurus
Uniprot IDQ3MHN5
Milk FractionWhey
Ref Sequence ID NP_001030457.1
Aminoacid Length 474
Molecular Weight 53342
FASTA Sequence Download
Gene Name GC
Gene ID 530076
Protein Existence Status Reviewed: Experimental evidence at transcript level

Secondary Information

Presence in other biological fluids/tissue/cells Serum,
Protein Function Role in the transport of vitamin D metabolites; maintains total levels of vitamin D and regulates the amounts of free (unbound) vitamin D available for specific tissues and cell types to utilize; binds actin and fatty acids preventing their polymerization; immune functions such as in B-cells, DBP seems to participate in the linkage of surface immunoglobulins
Biochemical Properties Associated and copurified with actin; existence of three major polymorphic forms -GC1F, GC1S and GC2; most DBP circulates without any vitamin D ligands attached; DBP binds actin with an affinity of 1 109 M^(–1) and fatty acids with reported affinity of 6–7 105 M(^–1)
Significance in milk Colostrum could be a rich source of vitamin D associated with DBP and could play an important role in the intake of vitamin D sterols in the newborn.
PTMs Glycosylated; GC1 forms have glycosylations at positions 418 and 420, whereas GC2 has glycosylation only at 418; trisaccharides as most frequent in GC1 with lesser amounts of disaccharides as found in humans
Site(s) of PTM(s)

N-glycosylation, O-glycosylation,
Phosphorylation
Predicted Disorder Regions 17-28,107-127
DisProt Annotation
TM Helix Prediction No TM helices
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