Mechanical regulation of chromatin and transcription

S Dupont, SA Wickström - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Cells and tissues generate and are exposed to various mechanical forces that act across a
range of scales, from tissues to cells to organelles. Forces provide crucial signals to inform …

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 …

A targetable LIFR− NF-κB− LCN2 axis controls liver tumorigenesis and vulnerability to ferroptosis

F Yao, Y Deng, Y Zhao, Y Mei, Y Zhang, X Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The growing knowledge of ferroptosis has suggested the role and therapeutic potential of
ferroptosis in cancer, but has not been translated into effective therapy. Liver cancer …

Microenvironment-induced PTEN loss by exosomal microRNA primes brain metastasis outgrowth

L Zhang, S Zhang, J Yao, FJ Lowery, Q Zhang… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The development of life-threatening cancer metastases at distant organs requires
disseminated tumour cells' adaptation to, and co-evolution with, the drastically different …

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 …

Cancer stem cell regulated phenotypic plasticity protects metastasized cancer cells from ferroptosis

M Wu, X Zhang, W Zhang, YS Chiou, W Qian… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer cells display phenotypic equilibrium between the stem-like and differentiated states
during neoplastic homeostasis. The functional and mechanistic implications of this …

STT3-dependent PD-L1 accumulation on cancer stem cells promotes immune evasion

JM Hsu, W Xia, YH Hsu, LC Chan, WH Yu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Enriched PD-L1 expression in cancer stem-like cells (CSCs) contributes to CSC immune
evasion. However, the mechanisms underlying PD-L1 enrichment in CSCs remain unclear …

The biology of YAP/TAZ: hippo signaling and beyond

S Piccolo, S Dupont, M Cordenonsi - Physiological reviews, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
The transcriptional regulators YAP and TAZ are the focus of intense interest given their
remarkable biological properties in development, tissue homeostasis and cancer. YAP and …

The emerging roles of YAP and TAZ in cancer

T Moroishi, CG Hansen, KL Guan - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Yes-associated protein (YAP) and transcriptional co-activator with PDZ-binding motif (TAZ)
are the major downstream effectors of the Hippo pathway, which regulates tissue …

YAP/TAZ: drivers of tumor growth, metastasis, and resistance to therapy

BJ Thompson - Bioessays, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The transcriptional co‐activators YAP (or YAP1) and TAZ (or WWTR1) are frequently
activated during the growth and progression of many solid tumors, including lung, colorectal …