Bookedited by Hiroshi Maruta.
1. Functional maturation of PAKs from unicellular to multicellular organisms / Masato Okada, Graham Cote, Ramesh K. Jha, and Hiroshi Maruta -- 2. Oncogenicity of PAKs and their substrates / Hong He and Hiroshi Maruta -- 3. Natural or synthetic therapeutics that block PAKs / Hiroshi Maruta, Shanta M. Messerli, and Ramesh K. Jha -- 4. PAK1-3 in infectious diseases / Hiroshi Maruta -- 5. PAK1 in brain diseases or disorders / Hiroshi Maruta and Shanta M. Messerli -- 6. PAK1 in Alzheimer's and Huntington's diseases / Qui-Lan Ma, Fusheng Yang, Sally A. Frautschy, and Greg M. Cole -- 7. PAK1 controls the lifespan / Sumino Yamase and Hiroshi Maruta -- 8. 3D structure and physiological regulation of PAKs / Stefan Knapp.