focal adhesion assembly
The aggregation and bonding together of a set of components to form a focal adhesion, a complex of intracellular signaling and structural proteins that provides a structural link between the internal actin cytoskeleton and the ECM, and also function as a locus of signal transduction activity.
GO:0007044
cell-substrate junction assembly
is_a
GO:0007160
cell-matrix adhesion
part_of
adhesion plaque assembly
related
focal adhesion formation
related