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Focal adhesion targeting: the critical determinant of FAK regulation and substrate phosphorylation. | ||
| Authors: | Shen, Y and Schaller, M D | |
| Citation: | Mol. Biol. Cell, 10: 2507-18 (1999) | |
| Pub Med ID: | 10436008 | |
| Year: | 1999 | |
| Abstract: | The focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is discretely localized to focal adhesions via its C-terminal focal adhesion-targeting (FAT) sequence. FAK is regulated by integrin-dependent cell adhesion and can regulate tyrosine phosphorylation of downstream substrates, like paxillin. By the use of a mutational strategy, the regions of FAK that are required for cell adhesion-dependent regulation and for inducing tyrosine phosphorylation of paxillin were determined. The results show that the FAT sequence was the single region of FAK that was required for each function. Furthermore, the FAT sequence of FAK was replaced with a focal adhesion-targeting sequence from vinculin, and the resulting chimera exhibited cell adhesion-dependent tyrosine phosphorylation and could induce paxillin phosphorylation like wild-type FAK. These results suggest that subcellular localization is the major determinant of FAK function. | |
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