FAK Activates Cell Migration (IMAGE)

Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO)

FAK Activates Cell Migration

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Molecular dynamics simulation provides atomic details of force induced FAK activation. Starting from an autoinhibited conformation of FAK (1), force induces a series of changes which leads to a fully open and active form of FAK (2-4).

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