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Differential lipid binding of vinculin isoforms promotes quasi-equivalent dimerization.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 23 Aug 2016
Chinthalapudi Krishna, Rangarajan Erumbi S, Brown David T, Izard Tina
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The main cause of death globally remains debilitating heart conditions, such as dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), which are often due to mutations of specific components of adhesion complexes. Vinculin regulates these complexes and plays essential roles in intercalated discs that are necessary for muscle cell function and coordinated movement and in the development and function...
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