title: Paxillin: a focal adhesion-associated adaptor protein.
abstract: Paxillin is a focal adhesion-associated, phosphotyrosine-containing protein that may play a role in several signaling pathways. Paxillin contains a number of motifs that mediate protein-protein interactions, including LD motifs, LIM domains, an SH3 domain-binding site and SH2 domain-binding sites. These motifs serve as docking sites for cytoskeletal proteins, tyrosine kinases, serine/threonine kinases, GTPase activating proteins and other adaptor proteins that recruit additional enzymes into complex with paxillin. Thus paxillin itself serves as a docking protein to recruit signaling molecules to a specific cellular compartment, the focal adhesions, and/or to recruit specific combinations of signaling molecules into a complex to coordinate downstream signaling. The biological function of paxillin coordinated signaling is likely to regulate cell spreading and motility.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, NC 27599, USA. crispy4@med.unc.edu
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Schaller
mesh_terms: D020816:Amino Acid Motifs; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002448:Cell Adhesion; D002465:Cell Movement; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000378:metabolism; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D051419:Paxillin; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology*; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011485:Protein Binding; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D015398:Signal Transduction; D018909:src Homology Domains
chemical_list: D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; C496061:PXN protein, human; D051419:Paxillin; D010750:Phosphoproteins