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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Hippo pathway mediates resistance to cytotoxic drugs.

Taranjit S Gujral, Marc W Kirschner

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers.

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56citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

56 citing papers in PubMed, 92 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Deep Learning-Powered Scalable Cancer Organ Chip for Cancer Precision Medicine.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  4. A systems approach identifies MERTK as a therapeutic vulnerability in ZFTA-RELA-driven ependymomas.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  8. Preventing chemotherapy-induced ovarian damage through PI3K/AKT and Hippo pathway regulation.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025
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  12. YAP inhibition overcomes adaptive resistance in HER2-positive gastric cancer treated with trastuzumab via the AKT/mTOR and ERK/mTOR axis.Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association · 2024
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  18. New insights into the ambivalent role of YAP/TAZ in human cancers.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Taranjit S GujralDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Marc W KirschnerDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 marc@hms.harvard.edu.
Center for Systems Biology · USHarvard University · US

Funding

Systems Analysis of cell type differentiation in Xenopus developmentR01HD073104 · NICHD · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI KIRSCHNER, MARC WALLACE, PESHKIN, LEON · 2012 to 2022
$6.7M
Proteomics of Cell Signaling in Embryogenesis.R01HD091846 · NICHD · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI GYGI, STEVEN P, KIRSCHNER, MARC WALLACE · 2017 to 2021
$3.1M
Cell Cycle proteomicsin XenopusR01GM103785 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI KIRSCHNER, MARC WALLACE · 2012 to 2016
$2.2M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD073104NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD091846NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM103785
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chemotherapy is widely used for cancer treatment, but its effectiveness is limited by drug resistance. Here, we report a mechanism by which cell density activates the Hippo pathway, which in turn inactivates YAP, leading to changes in the regulation of genes that control the intracellular concentrations of gemcitabine and several other US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved oncology drugs. Hippo inactivation sensitizes a diverse panel of cell lines and human tumors to gemcitabine in 3D spheroid, mouse xenografts, and patient-derived xenograft models. Nuclear YAP enhances gemcitabine effectiveness by down-regulating multidrug transporters as well by converting gemcitabine to a less active form, both leading to its increased intracellular availability. Cancer cell lines carrying genetic aberrations that impair the Hippo signaling pathway showed heightened sensitivity to gemcitabine. These findings suggest that "switching off" of the Hippo-YAP pathway could help to prevent or reverse resistance to some cancer therapies.

Indexed as

Adaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAnimalsCell LineCytotoxinsDeoxycytidineDrug Resistance, NeoplasmGemcitabineHippo Signaling PathwayHumansMiceNeoplasmsPhosphoproteinsProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesSignal TransductionTranscription FactorsXenograft Model Antitumor AssaysAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingCytotoxinsDeoxycytidineGemcitabinePhosphoproteinsProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesTranscription FactorsYAP1 protein, humanYAP-Signaling Proteinscancercell densitydrug resistancegemcitabineHippo pathway

Identifiers

PMID28416665
PMCPMC5422801
OpenAlexW2605515821

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