Protein Name vinculin
Organism Homo sapiens
Gene ID 7414
Gene Symbol

VCL

UniProt P18206 (VINC_HUMAN), A0A024QZN4 (A0A024QZN4_HUMAN), V9HWK2 (V9HWK2_HUMAN), B3KXA2 (B3KXA2_HUMAN)
Relationships Total Number of functionally related compound(s) : 253
Total Number of Articles : 304
Description

vinculin

Gene Summary

Vinculin is a cytoskeletal protein associated with cell-cell and cell-matrix junctions, where it is thought to function as one of several interacting proteins involved in anchoring F-actin to the membrane. Defects in VCL are the cause of cardiomyopathy dilated type 1W. Dilated cardiomyopathy is a disorder characterized by ventricular dilation and impaired systolic function, resulting in congestive heart failure and arrhythmia. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants have been found for this gene, but the biological validity of some variants has not been determined. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

synonyms
  • vinculin
  • epididymis luminal protein 114
  • epididymis secretory sperm binding protein
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