USP22 Facilitates Gastric Cancer Progression via Hippo/YAP axis
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PROVIDER: GSE319116 | GEO | 2026/06/01
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:The Hippo pathway is crucial in organ size control and tumorigenesis. The dys-regulation of Hippo/YAP axis is vastly observed in gastric cancer, while the effective therapeutic targets for Hippo/YAP axis are still not clear. It is important and urgent to identify reliable drug targets and the underlying mechanisms, which could inhibit the activity of Hippo/YAP axis and gastric cancer progression. In our current study, we demonstrate the membrane receptor CXCR7 (C-X-C chemokine receptor 7) is an important modulator for Hippo/YAP axis. The activation of CXCR7 could stimulate gastric cancer cell progression through Hippo/YAP axis in vitro and in vivo, while pharmaceutical inhibition of CXCR7 via ACT-1004-1239 could block the tumorigenesis in gastric cancer. Molecular studies reveal that the activation of CXCR7 could dephosphorylate YAP, facilitate YAP nuclear accumulation and transcriptional activation in gastric cancer. CXCR7 functions via G-protein Gαq/11 and Rho GTPase to activate YAP activity. Interestingly, ChIP assay shows that YAP could bind to the promoter region of CXCR7 and facilitate its gene transcription, which indicates CXCR7 is both the upstream signaling and downstream target for Hippo/YAP axis in gastric cancer. In general, we identified a novel positive feedback loop between CXCR7 and Hippo/YAP axis, while blockade of CXCR7 could be a plausible strategy for gastric cancer.
2023-11-15 | GSE233094 | GEO
Project description:Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the most lethal malignancies worldwide, but the effective therapeutic targets for GC is still limited. Accumulated evidence implicates the over-activation of Hippo/YAP axis in GC, while pharmaceutical targeting YAP could be a plausible strategy for GC treatment. Thus, it is of great clinical significance to identify novel hits for Hippo/YAP axis in GC. In our study, we identified oxytocin receptor (OXTR) as an important regulator of Hippo/YAP axis. RNA sequence analysis revealed the OXTR depletion inhibited the expression of Hippo target genes in whole genomic scale.
2024-12-11 | GSE283517 | GEO
Project description:The Hippo pathway functions as a tumor-suppressor pathway in human cancers, while the dys-function of Hippo pathway is frequently observed in malignancies. Although the YAP/TAZ activity is tightly controlled by the phosphorylation cascade of MST-LATS-YAP/TAZ axis, it is still unclear why YAP/TAZ protein is activated in human cancers, even Hippo pathway is still active. Besides phosphorylation, recent studies implicate that several post-translational modifications also play critical roles in modulating TAZ function, including ubiquitination. Here, by a DUB (Deubiquitinases) siRNA screening library, we discovered DUB1 as a critical modulator to facilitate gastric cancer stemness and progression, which deubiquitinated and activated TAZ protein. We also identified DUB1 was elevated in gastric cancer, which correlated with TAZ activation and poor survival. DUB1 associated with TAZ protein and deubiquitinated TAZ at several lysine sites, which subsequently stabilized and facilitated TAZ function. Our study revealed a novel deubiquitinase of Hippo/TAZ axis and one possible therapeutic target for Hippo-driven gastric cancer.
2022-02-12 | GSE196262 | GEO
Project description:Regulation of organ size is important for development and tissue homeostasis. In Drosophila, Hippo signaling controls organ size by regulating the activity of a TEAD transcription factor, Scalloped, through modulation of its coactivator protein Yki. The role of mammalian Tead proteins in growth regulation, however, remains unknown. Here we examined the role of mouse Tead proteins in growth regulation. In NIH3T3 cells, cell density and Hippo signaling regulated the activity of Tead proteins by modulating nuclear localization of a Yki homologue, Yap, and the resulting change in Tead activity altered cell proliferation. Tead2-VP16 mimicked Yap overexpression, including increased cell proliferation, reduced cell death, promotion of EMT, lack of cell contact inhibition, and promotion of tumor formation. Growth promoting activities of various Yap mutants correlated with their Tead-coactivator activities. Tead2-VP16 and Yap regulated largely overlapping sets of genes. However, only a few of the Tead/Yapregulated genes in NIH3T3 cells were affected in Tead1-/-;Tead2-/- or Yap-/- embryos. Most of the previously identified Yap-regulated genes were not affected in NIH3T3 cells or mutant mice. In embryos, levels of nuclear Yap and Tead1 varied depending on cell types. Strong nuclear accumulation of Yap and Tead1 were seen in myocardium, correlating with requirements of Tead1 for proliferation. However, their distribution did not always correlate with proliferation. Taken together, mammalian Tead proteins regulate cell proliferation and contact inhibition as a transcriptional mediator of Hippo signaling, but the mechanisms by which Tead/Yap regulate cell proliferation differ depending on cell types, and Tead, Yap and Hippo signaling may play multiple roles in mouse embryos. We used microarrays to know the gene expression profiles regurated by Tead2-VP16, Tead2-EnR, Yap, and cell density in NIH3T3 cells. Keywords: Cell density, genetic modification Tead2-VP16-, Tead2-EnR-, Yap- and control vector-expressing cells were cultured at low or high density for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays.
2008-11-20 | E-GEOD-12498 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Sox2 is required to maintain osteosarcoma cell tumor initiation.Knockdown of Sox2 leads tpo loss of tumorigenic properties. To examine gene expression changes upon Sox2 knockdown, we performed microarray analysis on mouse osteosarcoma cells expressing scrambled or Sox2shRNA. We found that genes upregulated upon Sox2 knockdown included osteoblast diffrentiation genes and genes down regulated included cell cycle and RNA processing genes as well as YAP-TEAD target genes. The Hippo pathway has a profound tumor suppressive role in cancer by restraining the strong growth-promoting function of YAP. We have previously shown that the stem cell transcription factor Sox2 maintains the tumorigenicity of osteosarcoma cancer stem cells (CSCs). In this report, we describe that Sox2 maintains stemness by antagonizing the Hippo pathway via direct repression of Hippo activators, Nf2 (Merlin) and WWC1 (Kibra), thereby leading to exaggerated YAP function. YAP is potently oncogenic in osteosarcoma and its depletion sharply reduces the tumorigenic CSC fraction. Low Nf2, low WWC1, and high YAP expression mark the CSC fraction of the tumor population, while the more differentiated fraction has high Nf2, high WWC1 and reduced YAP expression. This Sox2-Hippo axis is conserved and also operates in other Sox2-dependent cancers such as glioblastomas. We propose that disruption of YAP transcriptional activity reduces CSCs and could be a therapeutic strategy for Sox2- dependent tumors. Gene expression of 482 mouse lines mOS482 were analyzed by microarray. 3 replicates each of scrambled and Sox2shRNA were processed and hybridized
2015-02-15 | E-GEOD-64965 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Together with TEAD4 the Hippo pathway effector YAP stimulates chromosomal instability. Verteporfin is known to disrupt the physical YAP/TEAD interaction and tehrefore might prevent from chromosomal instability in liver cancer. Immortalized HCC cell line hepG2 is treated with Verteporfin for 24 hours.
2016-02-11 | E-GEOD-73396 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:The prevalent understanding of Hippo signaling is one inhibitory pathway in tumor growth via deactivating the potential of YAP-TEAD transcriptional complex. The aberrant activation of YAP was observed in a series of human malignancies. However, recent studies implicate that in certain cancer types, YAP could be a tumor suppressor. Here, we reported a context-dependent function of YAP in clear cell renal carcinoma (ccRCC). Inhibition of Hippo kinase activity impeded ccRCC tumor growth and NF-κB transcriptional programs. Pharmacological blocking Hippo kinase activity or ectopic activation of YAP suppressed tumor growth in xenograft and PDX models. Mechanism studies revealed that TEAD could synchronize with P65 for NF-κB signaling activation, while YAP disrupted TEAD-NF-κB interactions and dissociated P65 from its target gene promoter, thereby inhibiting NF-κB transcriptional programs and ccRCC tumor growth. Our study identified a novel crosstalk between Hippo and NF-κB pathway, uncovered a non-canonical regulation of Hippo/YAP axis in renal cancer and suggested a novel strategy to ccRCC treatments by YAP activation.
2025-11-26 | GSE236265 | GEO
Project description:The prevalent understanding of Hippo signaling is one inhibitory pathway in tumor growth via deactivating the potential of YAP-TEAD transcriptional complex. The aberrant activation of YAP was observed in a series of human malignancies. However, recent studies implicate that in certain cancer types, YAP could be a tumor suppressor. Here, we reported a context-dependent function of YAP in clear cell renal carcinoma (ccRCC). Inhibition of Hippo kinase activity impeded ccRCC tumor growth and NF-κB transcriptional programs. Pharmacological blocking Hippo kinase activity or ectopic activation of YAP suppressed tumor growth in xenograft and PDX models. Mechanism studies revealed that TEAD could synchronize with P65 for NF-κB signaling activation, while YAP disrupted TEAD-NF-κB interactions and dissociated P65 from its target gene promoter, thereby inhibiting NF-κB transcriptional programs and ccRCC tumor growth. Our study identified a novel crosstalk between Hippo and NF-κB pathway, uncovered a non-canonical regulation of Hippo/YAP axis in renal cancer and suggested a novel strategy to ccRCC treatments by YAP activation.
2024-05-31 | GSE252142 | GEO
Project description:The prevalent understanding of Hippo signaling is one inhibitory pathway in tumor growth via deactivating the potential of YAP-TEAD transcriptional complex. The aberrant activation of YAP was observed in a series of human malignancies. However, recent studies implicate that in certain cancer types, YAP could be a tumor suppressor. Here, we reported a context-dependent function of YAP in clear cell renal carcinoma (ccRCC). Inhibition of Hippo kinase activity impeded ccRCC tumor growth and NF-κB transcriptional programs. Pharmacological blocking Hippo kinase activity or ectopic activation of YAP suppressed tumor growth in xenograft and PDX models. Mechanism studies revealed that TEAD could synchronize with P65 for NF-κB signaling activation, while YAP disrupted TEAD-NF-κB interactions and dissociated P65 from its target gene promoter, thereby inhibiting NF-κB transcriptional programs and ccRCC tumor growth. Our study identified a novel crosstalk between Hippo and NF-κB pathway, uncovered a non-canonical regulation of Hippo/YAP axis in renal cancer and suggested a novel strategy to ccRCC treatments by YAP activation.
2025-04-17 | GSE252073 | GEO
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