Allosteric activation of vinculin by talin

Abstract The talin-vinculin axis is a key mechanosensing component of cellular focal adhesions. How talin and vinculin respond to forces and regulate one another remains unclear. By combining single-molecule magnetic tweezers experiments, Molecular Dynamics simulations, actin-bundling assays, and ad...

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Main Authors: Florian Franz, Rafael Tapia-Rojo, Sabina Winograd-Katz, Rajaa Boujemaa-Paterski, Wenhong Li, Tamar Unger, Shira Albeck, Camilo Aponte-Santamaria, Sergi Garcia-Manyes, Ohad Medalia, Benjamin Geiger, Frauke Gräter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39646-4