Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Cell adhesion molecule KIRREL1 is a feedback regulator of Hippo signaling recruiting SAV1 to cell-cell contact sites

  • Atanu Paul,
  • Stefano Annunziato,
  • Bo Lu,
  • Tianliang Sun,
  • Olivera Evrova,
  • Lara Planas-Paz,
  • Vanessa Orsini,
  • Luigi M. Terracciano,
  • Olga Charlat,
  • Zinger Yang Loureiro,
  • Lei Ji,
  • Raffaella Zamponi,
  • Frederic Sigoillot,
  • Hong Lei,
  • Alicia Lindeman,
  • Carsten Russ,
  • John S. Reece-Hoyes,
  • Thomas B. Nicholson,
  • Jan S. Tchorz,
  • Feng Cong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28567-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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How cell-cell contact is sensed by Hippo pathway is poorly understood. Here, the authors show that KIRREL1 functions as a feedback regulator of the mammalian Hippo pathway by sensing cell-cell interaction and recruiting SAV1 to cell-cell contacts.