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 …

The role of ubiquitination in tumorigenesis and targeted drug discovery

L Deng, T Meng, L Chen, W Wei, P Wang - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Ubiquitination, an important type of protein posttranslational modification (PTM), plays a
crucial role in controlling substrate degradation and subsequently mediates the “quantity” …

YAP/TAZ upstream signals and downstream responses

A Totaro, T Panciera, S Piccolo - Nature cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
Cell behaviour is strongly influenced by physical, mechanical contacts between cells and
their extracellular matrix. We review how the transcriptional regulators YAP and TAZ …

Alveolar epithelial type II cells as drivers of lung fibrosis in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

T Parimon, C Yao, BR Stripp, PW Noble… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Alveolar epithelial type II cells (AT2) are a heterogeneous population that have critical
secretory and regenerative roles in the alveolus to maintain lung homeostasis. However …

YAP/TAZ at the roots of cancer

F Zanconato, M Cordenonsi, S Piccolo - Cancer cell, 2016 - cell.com
YAP and TAZ are highly related transcriptional regulators pervasively activated in human
malignancies. Recent work indicates that, remarkably, YAP/TAZ are essential for cancer …

YAP/TAZ-dependent reprogramming of colonic epithelium links ECM remodeling to tissue regeneration

S Yui, L Azzolin, M Maimets, MT Pedersen… - Cell stem cell, 2018 - cell.com
Tissue regeneration requires dynamic cellular adaptation to the wound environment. It is
currently unclear how this is orchestrated at the cellular level and how cell fate is affected by …

Hippo pathway in organ size control, tissue homeostasis, and cancer

FX Yu, B Zhao, KL Guan - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Two decades of studies in multiple model organisms have established the Hippo pathway
as a key regulator of organ size and tissue homeostasis. By inhibiting YAP and TAZ …

Hippo signaling in embryogenesis and development

Z Wu, KL Guan - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2021 - cell.com
Hippo pathway components are structurally and functionally conserved and are notable for
their role in controlling organ size. More diverse functions of the Hippo pathway have been …

YAP/TAZ functions and their regulation at a glance

A Pocaterra, P Romani, S Dupont - Journal of cell science, 2020 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT YAP and TAZ proteins are transcriptional coactivators encoded by paralogous
genes, which shuttle between the cytoplasm and the nucleus in response to multiple inputs …

Genome-wide association between YAP/TAZ/TEAD and AP-1 at enhancers drives oncogenic growth

F Zanconato, M Forcato, G Battilana, L Azzolin… - Nature cell …, 2015 - nature.com
YAP/TAZ are nuclear effectors of the Hippo pathway regulating organ growth and
tumorigenesis. Yet, their function as transcriptional regulators remains underinvestigated. By …