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Nature Cell Biology 7, 545 - 547 (2005)
doi:10.1038/ncb0505-545
Foot in mouth: do focal adhesions disassemble by endocytosis?
Keith Burridge1
- Keith Burridge is at the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. e-mail: Keith_Burridge@med.unc.edu
Abstract
How cells disassemble their focal adhesions is not well understood. Now, Ezratty et al. have shown that the GTPase dynamin acts after microtubule targeting of focal adhesions to trigger their disassembly. One intriguing possibility is that dynamin might drive disassembly through endocytosis.
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