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Focal Adhesion Kinase as a Cellular Mechano-Sensor

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Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is a component of focal adhesion sites, which plays a crucial role in cell differentiation and motility. Using molecular dynamic simulations, we observed that binding of the phospho-inositide phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (\(\mathit{PIP}_{2}\)) by FAK can induce major conformational changes of FAK and exposure of its auto-phosphorylation site, but it cannot induce FAK’s activation. Our results support the biological experimental data by providing an atomic description of FAK’s conformational changes within FERM and kinase domains.

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  1. Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany

    Jing Zhou, Agnieszka Bronowska, Bogdan Costescu & Frauke Graeter

  2. Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany

    Jing Zhou, Agnieszka Bronowska, Bogdan Costescu & Frauke Graeter

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  1. Zentrum für Informationsdienste und Hochleistungsrechnen (ZIH), Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Wolfgang E. Nagel

  2. Abteilung für Angewandte Mathematik, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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Zhou, J., Bronowska, A., Costescu, B., Graeter, F. (2013). Focal Adhesion Kinase as a Cellular Mechano-Sensor. In: Nagel, W., Kröner, D., Resch, M. (eds) High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ‘13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02165-2_46

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