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ReviewGenes & diseases2021

Regulation of ferroptosis in cancer cells by YAP/TAZ and Hippo pathways: The therapeutic implications.

Tianai Sun, Jen-Tsan Chi

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Review in Genes & diseases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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66citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

66 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 102 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Tianai SunDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
Jen-Tsan ChiDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
Duke University · US

Funding

Metabolic regulation of KLHL proteins through O-glycosylationR01NS111588 · NINDS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI BOYCE, MICHAEL S, CHI, JEN-TSAN ASHLEY · 2019 to 2022
$2.1M
Biochemical and functional investigation of the novel enzymatic activities of MESH1R01GM124062 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CHI, JEN-TSAN ASHLEY, ZHOU, PEI · 2018 to 2021
$2.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM124062NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS111588
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ferroptosis is a novel form of iron-dependent cell death characterized by lipid peroxidation. While the importance and disease relevance of ferroptosis is gaining recognition, much remains unknown about various genetic and non-genetic determinants of ferroptosis. Hippo signaling pathway is an evolutionarily conserved pathway that responds to various environmental cues and controls organ size, cell proliferation, death, and self-renewal capacity. In cancer biology, Hippo pathway is a potent tumor suppressing mechanism and its dysregulation contributes to apoptosis evasion, cancer development, metastasis, and treatment resistance. Hippo dysregulation leads to aberrant activation of YAP and TAZ, the two major transcription co-activators of TEADs, that induce the expression of genes triggering tumor-promoting phenotypes, including enhanced cell proliferation, self-renewal and apoptosis inhibition. The Hippo pathway is regulated by the cell-cell contact and cellular density/confluence. Recently, ferroptosis has also been found being regulated by the cellular contact and density. The YAP/TAZ activation under low density, while confers apoptosis resistance, renders cancer cells sensitivity to ferroptosis. These findings establish YAP/TAZ and Hippo pathways as novel determinants of ferroptosis. Therefore, inducing ferroptosis may have therapeutic potential for YAP/TAZ-activated chemo-resistant and metastatic tumor cells. Reciprocally, various YAP/TAZ-targeting treatments under clinical development may confer ferroptosis resistance, limiting the therapeutic efficacy.

Indexed as

ApoptosisFerroptosisHippo pathwayTranscriptional coactivator with PDZ-binding motif (TAZ)Yes-associated protein 1 (YAP1)

Identifiers

PMID33997171
PMCPMC8093643
OpenAlexW3026713315

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