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 …

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: 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 …

KRAS and YAP1 converge to regulate EMT and tumor survival

DD Shao, W Xue, EB Krall, A Bhutkar, F Piccioni… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Cancer cells that express oncogenic alleles of RAS typically require sustained expression of
the mutant allele for survival, but the molecular basis of this oncogene dependency remains …

Yap1 activation enables bypass of oncogenic Kras addiction in pancreatic cancer

A Kapoor, W Yao, H Ying, S Hua, A Liewen, Q Wang… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Activating mutations in KRAS are among the most frequent events in diverse human
carcinomas and are particularly prominent in human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma …

The Hippo pathway target, YAP, promotes metastasis through its TEAD-interaction domain

JM Lamar, P Stern, H Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
The transcriptional coactivator Yes-associated protein (YAP) is a major regulator of organ
size and proliferation in vertebrates. As such, YAP can act as an oncogene in several tissue …

[HTML][HTML] YAP1 and its fusion proteins in cancer initiation, progression and therapeutic resistance

F Szulzewsky, EC Holland, V Vasioukhin - Developmental biology, 2021 - Elsevier
YAP1 is a transcriptional co-activator whose activity is controlled by the Hippo signaling
pathway. In addition to important functions in normal tissue homeostasis and regeneration …

Downstream of mutant KRAS, the transcription regulator YAP is essential for neoplastic progression to pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

W Zhang, N Nandakumar, Y Shi, M Manzano… - Science …, 2014 - science.org
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an aggressive cancer with poor survival rates
and frequently carries oncogenic KRAS mutation. However, KRAS has thus far not been a …

The YAP and TAZ transcription co-activators: key downstream effectors of the mammalian Hippo pathway

W Hong, KL Guan - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2012 - Elsevier
The Hippo signaling pathway was initially defined by genetic studies in Drosophila to
regulate tissue growth and organ size [1, 2]. This pathway is highly conserved in mammals …

The Hippo/YAP pathway interacts with EGFR signaling and HPV oncoproteins to regulate cervical cancer progression

C He, D Mao, G Hua, X Lv, X Chen… - EMBO molecular …, 2015 - embopress.org
The Hippo signaling pathway controls organ size and tumorigenesis through a kinase
cascade that inactivates Yes‐associated protein (YAP). Here, we show that YAP plays a …