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SUBMITTER: Golubovskaya VM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3952878 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in bioscience (Landmark edition) 20140101 4
It is twenty years since Focal Adhesion Kinase (FAK) was found to be overexpressed in many types of human cancer. FAK plays an important role in adhesion, spreading, motility, invasion, metastasis, survival, angiogenesis, and recently has been found to play an important role as well in epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT), cancer stem cells and tumor microenvironment. FAK has kinase-dependent and kinase independent scaffolding, cytoplasmic and nuclear functions. Several years ago FAK was p ...[more]