 Focal Adhesions
"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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| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2003 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2008 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2009 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2010 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2011 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2014 | 5 | 0 | 5 | | 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2016 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Focal Adhesions" by people in Profiles.
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Dent LG, Manning SA, Kroeger B, Williams AM, Saiful Hilmi AJ, Crea L, Kondo S, Horne-Badovinac S, Harvey KF. The dPix-Git complex is essential to coordinate epithelial morphogenesis and regulate myosin during Drosophila egg chamber development. PLoS Genet. 2019 05; 15(5):e1008083.
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Pekow J, Hutchison AL, Meckel K, Harrington K, Deng Z, Talasila N, Rubin DT, Hanauer SB, Hurst R, Umanskiy K, Fichera A, Hart J, Dinner AR, Bissonnette M. miR-4728-3p Functions as a Tumor Suppressor in Ulcerative Colitis-associated Colorectal Neoplasia Through Regulation of Focal Adhesion Signaling. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2017 08; 23(8):1328-1337.
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Eckert MA, Santiago-Medina M, Lwin TM, Kim J, Courtneidge SA, Yang J. ADAM12 induction by Twist1 promotes tumor invasion and metastasis via regulation of invadopodia and focal adhesions. J Cell Sci. 2017 Jun 15; 130(12):2036-2048.
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Sandbo N, Smolyaninova LV, Orlov SN, Dulin NO. Control of Myofibroblast Differentiation and Function by Cytoskeletal Signaling. Biochemistry (Mosc). 2016 Dec; 81(13):1698-1708.
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Mowers EE, Sharifi MN, Macleod KF. Novel insights into how autophagy regulates tumor cell motility. Autophagy. 2016 09; 12(9):1679-80.
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Yue J, Zhang Y, Liang WG, Gou X, Lee P, Liu H, Lyu W, Tang WJ, Chen SY, Yang F, Liang H, Wu X. In vivo epidermal migration requires focal adhesion targeting of ACF7. Nat Commun. 2016 05 24; 7:11692.
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Sharifi MN, Mowers EE, Drake LE, Collier C, Chen H, Zamora M, Mui S, Macleod KF. Autophagy Promotes Focal Adhesion Disassembly and Cell Motility of Metastatic Tumor Cells through the Direct Interaction of Paxillin with LC3. Cell Rep. 2016 05 24; 15(8):1660-72.
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Birukova AA, Shah AS, Tian Y, Moldobaeva N, Birukov KG. Dual role of vinculin in barrier-disruptive and barrier-enhancing endothelial cell responses. Cell Signal. 2016 Jun; 28(6):541-51.
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Liu H, Yue J, Huang H, Gou X, Chen SY, Zhao Y, Wu X. Regulation of Focal Adhesion Dynamics and Cell Motility by the EB2 and Hax1 Protein Complex. J Biol Chem. 2015 Dec 25; 290(52):30771-82.
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Liu H, Yue J, Lei Q, Gou X, Chen SY, He YY, Wu X. Ultraviolet B Inhibits Skin Wound Healing by Affecting Focal Adhesion Dynamics. Photochem Photobiol. 2015 Jul-Aug; 91(4):909-16.
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