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 Hippo pathway: biology and pathophysiology

S Ma, Z Meng, R Chen, KL Guan - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The Hippo pathway was initially discovered in Drosophila melanogaster as a key regulator
of tissue growth. It is an evolutionarily conserved signaling cascade regulating numerous …

YAP/TAZ activity in stromal cells prevents ageing by controlling cGAS–STING

HL Sladitschek-Martens, A Guarnieri, G Brumana… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Ageing is intimately connected to the induction of cell senescence,, but why this is so
remains poorly understood. A key challenge is the identification of pathways that normally …

Hippo–YAP/TAZ signalling in organ regeneration and regenerative medicine

IM Moya, G Halder - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
The Hippo pathway and its downstream effectors, the transcriptional co-activators Yes-
associated protein (YAP) and transcriptional co-activator with PDZ-binding motif (TAZ) …

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 …

Long noncoding RNA MALAT1 suppresses breast cancer metastasis

J Kim, HL Piao, BJ Kim, F Yao, Z Han, Y Wang, Z Xiao… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
MALAT1 has previously been described as a metastasis-promoting long noncoding RNA
(lncRNA). We show here, however, that targeted inactivation of the Malat1 gene in a …

Self-organization and symmetry breaking in intestinal organoid development

D Serra, U Mayr, A Boni, I Lukonin, M Rempfler… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Intestinal organoids are complex three-dimensional structures that mimic the cell-type
composition and tissue organization of the intestine by recapitulating the self-organizing …

Mechanobiology of YAP and TAZ in physiology and disease

T Panciera, L Azzolin, M Cordenonsi… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
A growing body of evidence suggests that mechanical signals emanating from the cell's
microenvironment are fundamental regulators of cell behaviour. Moreover, at the …

YAP and TAZ: a signalling hub of the tumour microenvironment

F Zanconato, M Cordenonsi, S Piccolo - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
YAP and TAZ are transcriptional activators pervasively induced in several human solid
tumours and their functions in cancer cells are the focus of intense investigation. These …

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 …