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Role of vinculin in regulating focal adhesion turnover.
European journal of cell biology - 1 Jun 2006
Saunders Ruth M, Holt Mark R, Jennings Lisa, Sutton Deborah H, Barsukov Igor L, Bobkov Andrey, Liddington Robert C, Adamson Eileen A, Dunn Graham A, Critchley David R
Abstract excerpt
Although vinculin (-/-) mouse embryo fibroblasts assemble focal adhesions (FAs), they spread more slowly, less extensively, and close a wound more rapidly than vinculin (+/+) cells. To investigate the structure and dynamics of FAs in these cells, we used real-time interference reflection microscopy (IRM) thus avoiding the need to express exogenous GFP-tagged FA proteins which may be misregulated. This showed that...
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