Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

RASSF1A uncouples Wnt from Hippo signalling and promotes YAP mediated differentiation via p73

  • Angelos Papaspyropoulos,
  • Leanne Bradley,
  • Asmita Thapa,
  • Chuen Yan Leung,
  • Konstantinos Toskas,
  • Delia Koennig,
  • Dafni-Eleftheria Pefani,
  • Cinzia Raso,
  • Claudia Grou,
  • Garth Hamilton,
  • Nikola Vlahov,
  • Anna Grawenda,
  • Syed Haider,
  • Jagat Chauhan,
  • Ludovico Buti,
  • Alexander Kanapin,
  • Xin Lu,
  • Francesca Buffa,
  • Grigory Dianov,
  • Alex von Kriegsheim,
  • David Matallanas,
  • Anastasia Samsonova,
  • Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz,
  • Eric O’Neill

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02786-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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In development, the switch from pluripotency to differentiation is important but it is often unclear how it is regulated. Here, the authors show that the tumour suppressor RASSF1A mediates this switch by promoting YAP-p73 transcription, which in turn enables differentiation.