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SUBMITTER: Weller PA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC54388 | biostudies-other | 1990 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19900801 15
We have determined the complete sequence of human vinculin, a cytoskeletal protein associated with cell-cell and cell-matrix junctions. Comparison of human and chicken embryo vinculin sequences shows that both proteins contain 1066 amino acids and exhibit a high level of sequence identity (greater than 95%). The region of greatest divergence falls within three 112-amino acid repeats spanning residues 259-589. Interestingly, nematode vinculin lacks one of these central repeats. The regions of hum ...[more]