metavinculin

English

Etymology

meta- +‎ vinculin

Noun

metavinculin (uncountable)

1. A splice variant of the protein vinculin, found in smooth muscle and skeletal muscle.
   • 2016 January 1, “A Haplotype of Two Novel Polymorphisms in δ-Sarcoglycan Gene Increases Risk of Dilated Cardiomyopathy in Mongoloid Population”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     About half of the genes encode sarcomeric proteins including α-cardiac actin, myosin heavy chain, troponin, tropomyosin, metavinculin, α-actinin and therefore overlap with those in HCM.