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The Role Of Zyxin And Limd1 In Mitosis And Cancer, Jiuli Zhou
The Role Of Zyxin And Limd1 In Mitosis And Cancer, Jiuli Zhou
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The Hippo signaling pathway, originally discovered in Drosophila, consists of a core kinase cascade and has been subsequently demonstrated to control tissue growth and tumorigenesis. The core of this pathway contains MST1/2 (Mammalian sterile 20-like kinase 1/2), LATS1/2 (large tumor suppressor 1/2) and downstream effector named Yes-associated protein (YAP) and PDZ-binding motif (TAZ). MST1/2 transduce their kinase activity mainly through directly phosphorylating LATS1/2. Once phosphorylated and activated, LATS1/2 subsequently phosphorylate and inhibit YAP/TAZ from translocating to nucleus, thereby suppressing the expression of downstream pro-growth and survival genes. While recent studies provide important insight into the tumor suppressor properties of …