Rational combinations of targeted cancer therapies: background, advances and challenges

H Jin, L Wang, R Bernards - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past two decades, elucidation of the genetic defects that underlie cancer has
resulted in a plethora of novel targeted cancer drugs. Although these agents can initially be …

YAP/TAZ as master regulators in cancer: modulation, function and therapeutic approaches

S Piccolo, T Panciera, P Contessotto, M Cordenonsi - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Our understanding of the function of the transcriptional regulators YAP and TAZ (YAP/TAZ)
in cancer is advancing. In this Review, we provide an update on recent progress in YAP/TAZ …

Regulated cell death (RCD) in cancer: key pathways and targeted therapies

F Peng, M Liao, R Qin, S Zhu, C Peng, L Fu… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Regulated cell death (RCD), also well-known as programmed cell death (PCD), refers to the
form of cell death that can be regulated by a variety of biomacromolecules, which is …

Insights into recent findings and clinical application of YAP and TAZ in cancer

JM Franklin, Z Wu, KL Guan - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Decades of research have mapped out the basic mechanics of the Hippo pathway. The
paralogues Yes-associated protein (YAP) and transcriptional co-activator with PDZ-binding …

An allosteric pan-TEAD inhibitor blocks oncogenic YAP/TAZ signaling and overcomes KRAS G12C inhibitor resistance

TJ Hagenbeek, JR Zbieg, M Hafner, R Mroue… - Nature Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
The Hippo pathway is a key growth control pathway that is conserved across species. The
downstream effectors of the Hippo pathway, YAP (Yes-associated protein) and TAZ …

Targeting the Hippo pathway in cancer, fibrosis, wound healing and regenerative medicine

A Dey, X Varelas, KL Guan - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2020 - nature.com
The Hippo pathway is an evolutionarily conserved signalling pathway with key roles in
organ development, epithelial homeostasis, tissue regeneration, wound healing and …

Control of stem cell renewal and fate by YAP and TAZ

JH Driskill, D Pan - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Complex physiological processes control whether stem cells self-renew, differentiate or
remain quiescent. Two decades of research have placed the Hippo pathway, a highly …

Cell–matrix interface regulates dormancy in human colon cancer stem cells

Y Ohta, M Fujii, S Takahashi, A Takano, K Nanki… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer relapse after chemotherapy remains a main cause of cancer-related death. Although
the relapse is thought to result from the propagation of resident cancer stem cells, a lack of …

Pharmacological blockade of TEAD–YAP reveals its therapeutic limitation in cancer cells

Y Sun, L Hu, Z Tao, GK Jarugumilli, H Erb… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Targeting TEAD autopalmitoylation has been proposed as a therapeutic approach for YAP-
dependent cancers. Here we show that TEAD palmitoylation inhibitor MGH-CP1 and …

Hippo signalling in the liver: role in development, regeneration and disease

JO Russell, FD Camargo - Nature reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2022 - nature.com
The Hippo signalling pathway has emerged as a major player in many aspects of liver
biology, such as development, cell fate determination, homeostatic function and …