A family of serine-threonine kinases that bind to and are activated by MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS such as RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS and CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN. They are intracellular signaling kinases that play a role the regulation of cytoskeletal organization.

Descriptor ID	D054462
MeSH Number(s)	D08.811.913.696.620.682.700.596 D12.644.360.552 D12.776.476.548
Concept/Terms	p21-Activated Kinases p21-Activated Kinases Kinases, p21-Activated p21 Activated Kinases PAK Kinases Kinases, PAK p21-Activated Kinase 3 p21-Activated Kinase 3 p21 Activated Kinase 3 Serine-Threonine-Protein Kinase PAK 3 Serine Threonine Protein Kinase PAK 3 Oligophrenin-3 Oligophrenin 3 PAK3 Kinase beta p21-Activated Kinase beta p21 Activated Kinase p21-Activated Kinase, beta beta-PAK p21-Activated Kinase 1 p21-Activated Kinase 1 p21 Activated Kinase 1 Serine-Threonine-Protein Kinase PAK 1 Serine Threonine Protein Kinase PAK 1 PAK-1 Kinase PAK 1 Kinase PAK1 Kinase alpha p21-Activated Kinase alpha p21 Activated Kinase alpha-PAK p21-Activated Kinase 2 p21-Activated Kinase 2 p21 Activated Kinase 2 p65(PAK) PAK65 PAK-2 Kinase PAK 2 Kinase PAK2 Kinase gamma-PAK gamma PAK p65PAK Protein

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