Recombinant Human Vinculin (VCL), partial

1. Vinculin is necessary to maintain the integrity of the glomerular filtration barrier by modulating podocyte foot processes and stabilizing intercellular junctions. PMID: 29241625
2. ERalpha upregulates vinculin expression in breast cancer cells; Loss of vinculin promotes amoeboid features of cancer cells PMID: 28266545
3. We report that polyoma small T antigen leads to upregulation of tubulin and vinculin in a time dependent manner with tubulin expression being most significantly affected. PMID: 29104053
4. Differential phosphatidylinositol 4,5-diphosphate binding of vinculin isoforms promotes quasi-equivalent dimerization. PMID: 27503891
5. Study used an all-heavy-atom structure-based model to study vinculin activation by talin in a high-tension context mechanically driven by F-actin, showed that vinculin activation may proceed from an intermediate state stabilized by partial talin-vinculin association. There is a low-force regime and a high-force regime where vinculin activation is dominated by two different pathways with distinct responses to force. PMID: 29045864
6. Vinculin head-tail interaction is required on soft substrates to destabilize vinculin and talin in FAs, and to allow hMSCs branching. Another module involves paxillin and FAK, which soft substrates also destabilize, but independently of vinculin head-tail interaction. This multi-modularity may be key to allow a versatile response to complex biomechanical cues. PMID: 27169142
7. The central role of talin and vinculin in cell adhesions suggests that the disintegration of the tissue in atherosclerosis could be partially driven by downregulation of these genes, leading to loosening of cell-ECM interactions and remodeling of the tissue. PMID: 27816808
8. East Asian common VCL variant p.Asp841His (D841H) was associated with sudden unexplained nocturnal death syndrome (SUNDS) in the Chinese Han population. PMID: 28373245
9. We identified mutations in VCL associated with Short segment Hirschsprung disease. Correction of this mutation in induced pluripotent stem cells using CRISPR/Cas9 editing, as well as the RET G731del mutation that causes Hirschsprung disease with total colonic aganglionosis, restored enteric neural crest cell function. PMID: 28342760
10. This review discusses the current understanding of the roles of vinculin in cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesions. Emphasis is placed on the how vinculin is recruited, activated and regulated. [review] PMID: 28401269
11. Study predicted the structure of the MAPK1-vinculin binding interface using a combination of flexible docking and molecular dynamics simulations, and confirmed that the MAPK1-vinculin interaction is mechanically regulated, and implicated a change in the vinculin D3-D4 cleft size upon vinculin activation as the basis for the conformational selectivity of MAPK1 binding toward open vinculin. PMID: 28494959
12. These results suggest that vinculin promotes the nuclear localization of transcription factor TAZ to inhibit the adipocyte differentiation on rigid extracellular matrix. PMID: 28115535
13. The VCL-encoding protein was involved in cardiomyopathy that associated with hypertension, therefore our results suggest the rs4746172 of VCL may be a novel target for clinical interventions to reduce CVD risk by regulating blood pressure in male Chinese PMID: 26487440
14. Three novel genes were identified as recurrently mutated; MYCN, MYO5B and VCL, and mutations in these genes were exclusively found in malignant sympathetic paraganglioma tumors. PMID: 26650627
15. roles and mechanisms of phospholipids in regulating the structure and function of vinculin and of its muscle-specific metavinculin splice variant. PMID: 26728462
16. Upon actin engagement, the N-terminal "strap" and helix 1 are displaced from the vinculin tail helical bundle to mediate actin bundling. PMID: 26493222
17. This study defined a plastic relationship between vinculin-mediated tension and adhesion complex area that controls fundamental cell-matrix adhesion properties. PMID: 26109125
18. Analysis showed that ITGB4 and VCL were upregulated in exosomes derived from taxane-resistant prostate cancer cells suggesting them as useful markers for progression of prostate cancer associated with taxane-resistance. PMID: 25997717
19. vinculin, present in the joints of anti-citrullinated protein antibody (ACPA)(+) rheumatoid arthritis patients, was identified as an autoantigen targeted by ACPA and CD4(+) T cells. PMID: 25942574
20. The activation of vinculin by stretched talin induces a positive feedback that reinforces the actin-talin-vinculin association. PMID: 24452080
21. Data indicate that specific protein interactions are spatially segregated within focal adhesions (FAs) at the nanoscale to regulate vinculin activation and function. PMID: 26053221
22. Vinculin expression was found to be significantly downregulated. PMID: 25496021
23. Our NMR and ITC data indicate that the SH3a and SH3b domains of CAP simultaneously bind to a long proline-rich region of vinculin with different binding specificities PMID: 24878663
24. PIP2 binding is required for the control of vinculin dynamics and turnover in focal adhesions. PMID: 25488920
25. Vinculin was identified as a potential plasma biomarker for age-related macular degeneration. PMID: 25298412
26. vinculin negatively regulates malignant phenotype of tumor cells including MT1-MMP transcription through MEK/ERK pathway PMID: 25449281
27. Vinculin is a new marker for atherosclerosis. PMID: 24369271
28. Data indicate the role of vinculin in inducing the talin mediated integrin activation. PMID: 24446374
29. vinculin binds to Rab5 and is required for Staphylococcus aureus uptake in cells. PMID: 24466349
30. Case Report: VCL-ALK gene fusion in renal cell carcinoma in patient with sickle cell trait. PMID: 24698962
31. These data reveal an unexpected regulatory mechanism in which vinculin Y822 phosphorylation determines whether cadherins transmit force and provides a paradigm for how a shared component of adhesions can produce biologically distinct functions. PMID: 24751539
32. p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase interacts with vinculin at focal adhesions during fatty acid-stimulated cell adhesion. PMID: 24219282
33. These results indicate that mechanical forces loaded to focal adhesions (FAs) facilitate vinculin binding to talin at FAs. PMID: 24452377
34. this study elucidated how tensile forces generated by single stress fibers are temporally and spatially distributed to vinculin mechanosensors located within cell-matrix adhesions PMID: 23687380
35. Data indicate that lasp-2 interacts with the focal adhesion proteins vinculin and paxillin. PMID: 23389630
36. VAX1 rs10787760, rs6585429 and rs1871345 polymorphisms may be involved in nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate in Brazilian patients, but there is no association with polymorphisms in FGF12, VCL, or CX43 PMID: 23679094
37. Vinculin protein level in SW620 was much higher than that in SW480 cells. PMID: 23627409
38. Studies indicate that that vinculin not only bundles actin filaments but can also cap these filaments and promote actin polymerization. PMID: 23466368
39. these data suggest that metavinculin enrichment in attachment sites of muscle cells leads to higher mechanical stability of adhesion complexes allowing for greater shear force resistance. PMID: 23159629
40. Western blotting demonstrated that vinculin was predominantly expressed in the pancreatic cancer tissues compared with non-cancerous tissues; findings indicate that vinculin may be a clinically useful biomarker of pancreatic cancer PMID: 22940724
41. These binding assays show that raver1 forms a ternary complex with metavinculin and vinculin mRNA. PMID: 22709580
42. The metavinculin promoted severing of actin filaments, most efficiently at substoichiometric concentrations. PMID: 22613835
43. binding studies suggest that vinculin must be in an activated state to bind to alpha-catenin and that this interaction is stabilized by the formation of a ternary alpha-catenin-vinculin-F-actin complex, which can be formed via the F-actin binding domain PMID: 22493458
44. Results implicate Vinculin-dependent VE-cadherin mechanosensing in endothelial processes such as leukocyte extravasation and angiogenesis. PMID: 22391038
45. Data show that SGK1 regulates cell migration via vinculin dephosphorylation, a mechanism that is controlled by membrane androgen receptor function. PMID: 22309306
46. alpha-catenin employs a novel mechanism to activate vinculin and may explain how vinculin is differentially recruited and/or activated in cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesions. PMID: 22235119
47. sca4 activates vinculin and interacts with the actin cytoskeleton; vinculin has roles in Rickettsia pathogenesis PMID: 21841197
48. VCL is expressed differently in benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer, which may serve as an indicator for the differential diagnosis of benign and malignant prostate diseases. PMID: 21171262
49. When myosin II contractility was inhibited, the k(off) values for all three proteins changed rapidly, in a highly protein-specific manner: dissociation of vinculin from FAs was facilitated, whereas dissociation of paxillin and zyxin was attenuated. PMID: 21486952
50. Talin-1 and vinculin negatively affect tyrosine phosphorylation of paxillin, a novel positive regulator of HIV-1 infection, and impose an early block to infection by distinct retroviruses. PMID: 21763488

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HGNC: 12665

OMIM: 193065

KEGG: hsa:7414

STRING: 9606.ENSP00000211998

UniGene: Hs.643896