Vinculin

noun

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

Etymology

From vincul(um) + -in.

Related phrases

focal adhesion plaque

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