English Explanatory Dictionary

vinculin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A membrane-cytoskeletal protein in focal adhesion plaques, involved in linkage of integrin adhesion molecules to the actin cytoskeleton

Word forms

vinculin vinculins

Etymology

From vincul(um) + -in.

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