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Nck/Dock: an adapter between cell surface receptors and the actin cytoskeleton

Oncogene volume 20, pages 6403–6417 (2001)Cite this article

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In response to extracellular signals, cell surface receptors engage in connections with multiple intracellular signaling pathways, leading to the cellular responses such as survival, migration, proliferation and differentiation. The ‘pY→SH2/SH3→effector’ connection is a frequently used scheme by many cell surface receptors, in which SH2/SH3-containing adapters connect protein tyrosine phosphorylation to a variety of downstream effector pathways. Following the initial landmark finding that Grb2 adapter links the receptors to the Ras pathway leading to DNA synthesis, recent studies have revealed that the biological function of the SH2/SH3 adapter Nck/Dock is to link cell surface receptors to the actin cytoskeleton. For example, in the evolutionarily-conserved signaling network, GEF-Rac-Nck-Pak, Nck ‘fixes up’ the interaction of Pak with its upstream activator, Rac. The activated Pak then regulates the cytoskeletal dynamics. The fact that the majority of the more than 20 Nck-SH3-associated effectors are regulators of the actin cytoskeleton suggests that Nck/Dock regulates, via binding to distinct effectors, various cell type-specific motogenic responses. This review focuses on our current understanding of Nck/Dock function. Due to the number and complexity of the terminologies used in this review, a ‘Glossary of Terms’ is provided to help reduce confusions.

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This study was supported by NIH Grants CA65567 (to W Lei) and AR46538 (to DT Woodley).

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Li, W., Fan, J. & Woodley, D. Nck/Dock: an adapter between cell surface receptors and the actin cytoskeleton. Oncogene 20, 6403–6417 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1204782

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