Focal adhesion kinase modulates tension signaling to control actin and focal adhesion dynamics.

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Published in J Cell Biol on February 26, 2007

Authors

Markus Schober1, Srikala Raghavan, Maria Nikolova, Lisa Polak, H Amalia Pasolli, Hilary E Beggs, Louis F Reichardt, Elaine Fuchs

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1: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021, USA.

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