NALT

Preferred term

focal adhesions

Topic

An anchoring junction of the cell to a non-cellular substrate. It is composed of a specialized area of the plasma membrane where bundles of the actin cytoskeleton terminate and attach to the transmembrane linkers, integrins, which in turn attach through their extracellular domains to extracellular matrix proteins.

cell-matrix junctions

cell-matrix adherens junctions
focal contacts

Field 001 in MARC Authority Format

81551

Spanish

adherencias focales

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/294139

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Created 3/2/17, last modified 11/10/17