title: Focal adhesion targeting: the critical determinant of FAK regulation and substrate phosphorylation.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Schaller
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D020134:Catalytic Domain; D002448:Cell Adhesion / Q000502:physiology; D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D002642:Chick Embryo; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D005109:Extracellular Matrix / Q000378:metabolism; D005353:Fibronectins / Q000378:metabolism; D051416:Focal Adhesion Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D016023:Integrins / Q000378:metabolism; D009154:Mutation; D051419:Paxillin; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D014443:Tyrosine / Q000378:metabolism; D016596:Vinculin / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; D005353:Fibronectins; D016023:Integrins; D051419:Paxillin; D010750:Phosphoproteins; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D016596:Vinculin; D014443:Tyrosine; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D051416:Focal Adhesion Protein-Tyrosine Kinases