Structural basis for vinculin activation at sites of cell adhesion.
Bakolitsa, C., Cohen, D.M., Bankston, L.A., Bobkov, A.A., Cadwell, G.W., Jennings, L., Critchley, D.R., Craig, S.W., Liddington, R.C.(2004) Nature 430: 583-586
- PubMed: 15195105 
- DOI: 10.1038/nature02610
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1ST6 - PubMed Abstract: 
Vinculin is a highly conserved intracellular protein with a crucial role in the maintenance and regulation of cell adhesion and migration. In the cytosol, vinculin adopts a default autoinhibited conformation. On recruitment to cell-cell and cell-matrix adherens-type junctions, vinculin becomes activated and mediates various protein-protein interactions that regulate the links between F-actin and the cadherin and integrin families of cell-adhesion molecules ...