Gene:
vinculin
Gene ID:
209399
Symbol:
VCL
Species:
1000
Description:
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. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants have been found for this gene, but the biological validity of some variants has not been determined. Human vinculin protein exhibits a greater than 95% sequence identity to the chicken vinculin protein.