Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Assembly and activation of the Hippo signalome by FAT1 tumor suppressor

  • Daniel Martin,
  • Maria S. Degese,
  • Lynn Vitale-Cross,
  • Ramiro Iglesias-Bartolome,
  • Juan Luis Callejas Valera,
  • Zhiyong Wang,
  • Xiaodong Feng,
  • Huwate Yeerna,
  • Vachan Vadmal,
  • Toshiro Moroishi,
  • Rick F. Thorne,
  • Moraima Zaida,
  • Bradford Siegele,
  • Sok C. Cheong,
  • Alfredo A. Molinolo,
  • Yardena Samuels,
  • Pablo Tamayo,
  • Kun Liang Guan,
  • Scott M. Lippman,
  • J. Guy Lyons,
  • J. Silvio Gutkind

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04590-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Dysregulation of the Hippo signaling is a frequent event in human malignancies, but the molecular mechanisms remain unclear. Here the authors show that in head and neck squamous carcinoma, FAT1 interacts with the Hippo signaling complex, resulting in the activation of core Hippo kinases and YAP1 inactivation.