FAK acts as a suppressor of RTK-MAP kinase signalling in Drosophila melanogaster epithelia and human cancer cells.

Receptor Tyrosine Kinases (RTKs) and Focal Adhesion Kinase (FAK) regulate multiple signalling pathways, including mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase pathway. FAK interacts with several RTKs but little is known about how FAK regulates their downstream signalling. Here we investigated how FAK regu...

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Main Authors: Juan Pablo Macagno, Jesica Diaz Vera, Yachuan Yu, Iain MacPherson, Emma Sandilands, Ruth Palmer, Jim C Norman, Margaret Frame, Marcos Vidal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-03-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3967952?pdf=render