Vtn vitronectin [Mus musculus (house mouse)] - Gene

Summary

Official Symbol: Vtnprovided by MGI
Official Full Name: vitronectinprovided by MGI
Primary source: MGI:MGI:98940
See related: Ensembl:ENSMUSG00000017344 AllianceGenome:MGI:98940
Gene type: protein coding
RefSeq status: VALIDATED
Organism: Mus musculus
Lineage: Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; Mammalia; Eutheria; Euarchontoglires; Glires; Rodentia; Myomorpha; Muroidea; Muridae; Murinae; Mus; Mus
Also known as: Vn
Summary: Enables extracellular matrix binding activity. Involved in oligodendrocyte differentiation. Acts upstream of or within cell-matrix adhesion; extracellular matrix organization; and positive regulation of cell-substrate adhesion. Located in extracellular matrix. Is expressed in several structures, including alimentary system; embryo mesenchyme; metanephros; nervous system; and retina. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Churg-Strauss syndrome; granulomatosis with polyangiitis; and thrombosis. Orthologous to human VTN (vitronectin). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]
Expression: Biased expression in liver adult (RPKM 833.3), liver E18 (RPKM 554.4) and 2 other tissues See more
Orthologs: all
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Genomic context

Location:: 11 B5; 11 46.74 cM

Exon count:: 8

Annotation release	Status	Assembly	Chr	Location
RS_2024_02	current	GRCm39 (GCF_000001635.27)	11	NC_000077.7 (78389946..78393151)
108.20200622	previous assembly	GRCm38.p6 (GCF_000001635.26)	11	NC_000077.6 (78499120..78502325)

Chromosome 11 - NC_000077.7 Genomic Context describing neighboring genes

Genomic regions, transcripts, and products

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Genomic Sequence:

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Expression

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Project title: Mouse ENCODE transcriptome data
Description: RNA profiling data sets generated by the Mouse ENCODE project.
BioProject: PRJNA66167
Publication: PMID 25409824
Analysis date: n/a

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GeneRIFs: Gene References Into Functions

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Targeting tumor cell-to-macrophage communication by blocking Vtn-C1qbp interaction inhibits tumor progression via enhancing macrophage phagocytosis.
Title: Targeting tumor cell-to-macrophage communication by blocking Vtn-C1qbp interaction inhibits tumor progression via enhancing macrophage phagocytosis.
Blood Vitronectin Induces Detrimental Brain Interleukin-6 and Correlates With Outcomes After Stroke Only in Female Mice.
Title: Blood Vitronectin Induces Detrimental Brain Interleukin-6 and Correlates With Outcomes After Stroke Only in Female Mice.
these data suggest that leakage of VTN into the subventricular zone reduces the neurogenic response to stroke in female mice
Title: Vitronectin mitigates stroke-increased neurogenesis only in female mice and through FAK-regulated IL-6.
Vitronectin regulates the multipolar-to-bipolar morphological transition of nitrites via alphavbeta5 integrin.
Title: Vitronectin is Involved in the Morphological Transition of Neurites in Retinoic Acid-Induced Neurogenesis of Neuroblastoma Cell Line Neuro2a.
blood-derived vitronectin (VTN) rapidly and potently activates leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and pro-inflammatory interleukin 6 (IL-6) in vitro and after vascular injury in the brain.
Title: Blood vitronectin is a major activator of LIF and IL-6 in the brain through integrin-FAK and uPAR signaling.
VTN had a novel therapeutic potential for the treatment of Radiation-induced lung toxicity.
Title: The positive role of vitronectin in radiation induced lung toxicity: the in vitro and in vivo mechanism study.
The effects of genetic alterations in PAI-1 expression, pharmacologic PAI-1 inhibition and recombinant PAI-1 on smooth muscle cell vitronectin (VN) expression were studied, and vascular VN expression in wild-type and PAI-1-deficient mice was assessed.
Title: Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 regulates the vascular expression of vitronectin.
this study demonstrates in a mouse infection model that Vn reduces complement-mediated killing of Yersinia enterocolitica O:9 E40 and, thus, improves bacterial survival
Title: Vitronectin Binds to a Specific Stretch within the Head Region of Yersinia Adhesin A and Thereby Modulates Yersinia enterocolitica Host Interaction.
the TGF-beta-PAI-1-vitronectin-integrin axis may represent a critical convergence of factors in determining the alveolar epithelial cell apoptotic response during lung injury.
Title: The vitronectin RGD motif regulates TGF-β-induced alveolar epithelial cell apoptosis.
In vtn knockout mice, neuronal differentiation in the cerebellum was suppressed compared with wild-type mice.
Title: Vitronectin promotes the progress of the initial differentiation stage in cerebellar granule cells.

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Variation

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Alleles

Alleles of this type are documented at Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI)

Endonuclease-mediated (4)
Targeted (2) 1 citation

Interactions

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Products	Interactant	Other Gene	Complex	Source	Pubs	Description

General gene information

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Markers

AI256434 (e-PCR)
- UniSTS:180261

D11Seg34 (e-PCR), detects polymorphism
- UniSTS:141809

D11Seg35 (e-PCR), detects polymorphism
- UniSTS:141810

Gene Ontology Provided by MGI

Function	Evidence Code	Pubs
enables cell-matrix adhesion mediator activity	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
enables collagen binding	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
enables collagen binding	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
enables extracellular matrix binding	IBA Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor more info
enables extracellular matrix binding	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info	PubMed
enables extracellular matrix structural constituent	RCA inferred from Reviewed Computational Analysis more info	PubMed
enables heparin binding	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
enables heparin binding	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
enables identical protein binding	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
enables identical protein binding	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
enables integrin binding	IBA Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor more info
enables integrin binding	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
enables integrin binding	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
enables polysaccharide binding	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
enables scavenger receptor activity	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info

Process	Evidence Code	Pubs
involved_in cell adhesion	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
involved_in cell adhesion mediated by integrin	IBA Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor more info
involved_in cell adhesion mediated by integrin	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
involved_in cell adhesion mediated by integrin	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in cell differentiation	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
involved_in cell migration	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
involved_in cell migration	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in cell-matrix adhesion	IBA Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor more info
acts_upstream_of_or_within cell-matrix adhesion	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info	PubMed
involved_in cell-matrix adhesion	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
involved_in cell-matrix adhesion	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in endodermal cell differentiation	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
involved_in endodermal cell differentiation	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
acts_upstream_of_or_within extracellular matrix organization	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info	PubMed
involved_in immune response	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
involved_in integrin-mediated signaling pathway	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
involved_in integrin-mediated signaling pathway	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in liver regeneration	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
involved_in liver regeneration	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in negative regulation of blood coagulation	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
involved_in negative regulation of blood coagulation	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in negative regulation of fibrinolysis	NAS Non-traceable Author Statement more info	PubMed
involved_in negative regulation of proteolysis	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
involved_in negative regulation of proteolysis	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in oligodendrocyte differentiation	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info	PubMed
acts_upstream_of_or_within positive regulation of cell-substrate adhesion	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info	PubMed
involved_in positive regulation of integrin-mediated signaling pathway	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
involved_in positive regulation of integrin-mediated signaling pathway	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in positive regulation of receptor-mediated endocytosis	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
involved_in positive regulation of receptor-mediated endocytosis	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in positive regulation of smooth muscle cell migration	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
involved_in positive regulation of smooth muscle cell migration	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in positive regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor signaling pathway	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
involved_in positive regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor signaling pathway	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in protein polymerization	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
involved_in protein polymerization	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in regulation of cell adhesion	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
involved_in regulation of cell adhesion	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in smooth muscle cell-matrix adhesion	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
involved_in smooth muscle cell-matrix adhesion	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in vesicle-mediated transport	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info

Component	Evidence Code	Pubs
located_in Golgi lumen	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
located_in Golgi lumen	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
located_in basement membrane	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
located_in basement membrane	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
located_in cell periphery	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
located_in endoplasmic reticulum	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
located_in endoplasmic reticulum	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
located_in extracellular matrix	HDA more info	PubMed
is_active_in extracellular matrix	IBA Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor more info
located_in extracellular matrix	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info	PubMed
located_in extracellular matrix	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
located_in extracellular matrix	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
located_in extracellular matrix	NAS Non-traceable Author Statement more info	PubMed
located_in extracellular region	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
is_active_in extracellular space	IBA Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor more info
located_in extracellular space	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
located_in extracellular space	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
located_in microfibril	TAS Traceable Author Statement more info	PubMed
part_of peptidase inhibitor complex	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
part_of protein complex involved in cell-matrix adhesion	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
located_in rough endoplasmic reticulum lumen	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
located_in rough endoplasmic reticulum lumen	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info

General protein information

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Preferred Names: vitronectin

Names: S-protein; serum-spreading factor

NCBI Reference Sequences (RefSeq)

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RefSeqs maintained independently of Annotated Genomes

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These reference sequences are curated independently of the genome annotation cycle, so their versions may not match the RefSeq versions in the current genome build. Identify version mismatches by comparing the version of the RefSeq in this section to the one reported in Genomic regions, transcripts, and products above.

mRNA and Protein(s)

NM_011707.2 → NP_035837.1 vitronectin precursor

See identical proteins and their annotated locations for NP_035837.1

Status: VALIDATED

Source sequence(s)

AI173462, AK090325, CK617609

Consensus CDS

CCDS25106.1

UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot

P29788, Q5SYG4, Q8VII4, Q91X32, Q9D080

Related

ENSMUSP00000017488.5, ENSMUST00000017488.5

Conserved Domains (2) summary

smart00201
Location:20 → 62

SO; Somatomedin B -like domains

cd00094
Location:153 → 473

HX; Hemopexin-like repeats.; Hemopexin is a heme-binding protein that transports heme to the liver. Hemopexin-like repeats occur in vitronectin and some matrix metalloproteinases family (matrixins). The HX repeats of some matrixins bind tissue inhibitor of ...