"Focal Adhesions" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An anchoring junction of the cell to a non-cellular substrate. It is composed of a specialized area of the plasma membrane where bundles of the ACTIN CYTOSKELETON terminate and attach to the transmembrane linkers, INTEGRINS, which in turn attach through their extracellular domains to EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS.
| Descriptor ID |
D022001
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A11.284.149.165.165.285
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| Concept/Terms |
Focal Adhesions- Focal Adhesions
- Adhesion, Focal
- Adhesions, Focal
- Focal Adhesion
- Focal Contacts
- Contact, Focal
- Contacts, Focal
- Focal Contact
- Adhesion Plaques
- Adhesion Plaque
- Plaque, Adhesion
- Plaques, Adhesion
- Cell-Matrix Adherens Junctions
- Adherens Junction, Cell-Matrix
- Adherens Junctions, Cell-Matrix
- Cell Matrix Adherens Junctions
- Cell-Matrix Adherens Junction
- Junction, Cell-Matrix Adherens
- Junctions, Cell-Matrix Adherens
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Focal Adhesions" by people in Profiles.
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Cho S, Muthukumar AK, Stork T, Coutinho-Budd JC, Freeman MR. Focal adhesion molecules regulate astrocyte morphology and glutamate transporters to suppress seizure-like behavior. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 10 30; 115(44):11316-11321.
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Cui C, Chatterjee B, Lozito TP, Zhang Z, Francis RJ, Yagi H, Swanhart LM, Sanker S, Francis D, Yu Q, San Agustin JT, Puligilla C, Chatterjee T, Tansey T, Liu X, Kelley MW, Spiliotis ET, Kwiatkowski AV, Tuan R, Pazour GJ, Hukriede NA, Lo CW. Wdpcp, a PCP protein required for ciliogenesis, regulates directional cell migration and cell polarity by direct modulation of the actin cytoskeleton. PLoS Biol. 2013 Nov; 11(11):e1001720.
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Goel HL, Mercurio AM. Enhancing integrin function by VEGF/neuropilin signaling: implications for tumor biology. Cell Adh Migr. 2012 Nov-Dec; 6(6):554-60.
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Sparrow N, Manetti ME, Bott M, Fabianac T, Petrilli A, Bates ML, Bunge MB, Lambert S, Fernandez-Valle C. The actin-severing protein cofilin is downstream of neuregulin signaling and is essential for Schwann cell myelination. J Neurosci. 2012 Apr 11; 32(15):5284-97.
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Goel HL, Pursell B, Standley C, Fogarty K, Mercurio AM. Neuropilin-2 regulates a6?1 integrin in the formation of focal adhesions and signaling. J Cell Sci. 2012 Jan 15; 125(Pt 2):497-506.
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Wilcox-Adelman SA, Denhez F, Iwabuchi T, Saoncella S, Calautti E, Goetinck PF. Syndecan-4: dispensable or indispensable? Glycoconj J. 2002 May-Jun; 19(4-5):305-13.