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Trends in Cell Biology, 1997
The GTP-binding protein Rho regulates the assembly of focal adhesions and their associated bundles of actin filaments. Two different lines of research have converged to reveal how Rho might regulate assembly of these structures. One approach has been the identification of downstream effectors of Rho, whereas the other has been the exploration of the ...
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The GTP-binding protein Rho regulates the assembly of focal adhesions and their associated bundles of actin filaments. Two different lines of research have converged to reveal how Rho might regulate assembly of these structures. One approach has been the identification of downstream effectors of Rho, whereas the other has been the exploration of the ...
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Environmental sensing through focal adhesions
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2009Recent progress in the design and application of artificial cellular microenvironments and nanoenvironments has revealed the extraordinary ability of cells to adjust their cytoskeletal organization, and hence their shape and motility, to minute changes in their immediate surroundings. Integrin-based adhesion complexes, which are tightly associated with
Benjamin Geiger, Alexander Bershadsky
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The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, 1997
Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is a member of a growing family of non-receptor protein tyrosine kinases. Though originally identified as a putative substrate for the oncogenic tyrosine kinase pp60v-src, it is now well-established that FAK tyrosine phosphorylation is induced by adhesion of cell surface integrins to extracellular matrix and by a variety of ...
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Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is a member of a growing family of non-receptor protein tyrosine kinases. Though originally identified as a putative substrate for the oncogenic tyrosine kinase pp60v-src, it is now well-established that FAK tyrosine phosphorylation is induced by adhesion of cell surface integrins to extracellular matrix and by a variety of ...
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Mechanotransduction and focal adhesions
Cell Biology International, 2012AbstractCellular FAs (focal adhesions) respond to internal and external mechanical stresses which make them prime candidates for mechanotransduction. Recent observations showed that the FA proteins including vinculin, FAK (FA kinase) and p130Cas are crucial for the ability of cells to transmit forces and to generate cytoskeletal tension.
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Focal adhesion kinase in cancer
Frontiers in Bioscience, 2003Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is a non-receptor cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase that transmits signals important in modulating several cell functions, including proliferation, migration, and survival. Several different types of malignant tumors have been reported to express elevated levels of FAK protein in vivo, potentially pointing to a role for FAK in ...
Timothy P, Hecker, Candece L, Gladson
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Focal adhesions: Structure and dynamics
Biology of the Cell, 2000Interactions of cells with the extracellular matrix are essential for the control of tissue remodelling, cell migration, and embryogenesis. At the cell—extracellular matrix contact points, specialized structures are formed and termed focal adhesions, where transmembrane adhesion receptors provide a structural link between the actin cytoskeleton and the
V, Petit, J P, Thiery
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Signaling through focal adhesion kinase
BioEssays, 1997AbstractFocal adhesion kinase (FAK) is a nonreceptor protein‐tyrosine kinase implicated in controlling cellular responses to the engagement of cell‐surface integrins, including cell spreading and migration, survival and proliferation. Aberrant FAK signaling may contribute to the process of cell transformation by certain oncoproteins, including v‐Src ...
S K, Hanks, T R, Polte
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Focal adhesions – the cytoskeletal connection
Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2000Cellular contacts with the extracellular matrix are regulated by the Rho family of GTPases through their effects on both the actin and the microtubule cytoarchitecture. Recent genetic, biochemical and structural data have highlighted the role played by a subset of actin-binding proteins in coupling integrins to cytoskeletal actin and in assembling ...
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Paxillin and focal adhesion signalling
Nature Cell Biology, 2000To facilitate a rapid response to environmental change, cells use scaffolding - or adaptor - proteins to recruit key components of their signal-transduction machinery to specific subcellular locations. Paxillin is a multi-domain adaptor found at the interface between the plasma membrane and the actin cytoskeleton.
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Focal Adhesion Kinase in Neuritogenesis
2007The transduction of extracellular signals through adhesion and guidance receptors into cytoskeleton reorganization underlies axon outgrowth and pathfinding decisions. The cytoplasmic protein tyrosine kinase focal adhesion kinase (FAK), a central regulator of cell motility phenomena during morphogenesis, is highly expressed in the developing nervous ...
Bonanomi D., Valtorta F.
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