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YAP1 Exerts Its Transcriptional Control via TEAD-Mediated Activation of Enhancers

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Stein, Claudia, Bardet, Anaïs Flore, Roma, Guglielmo, Bergling, Sebastian, Clay, Ieuan, Ruchti, Alexandra, Agarinis, Claudia, Schmelzle, Tobias +3 more·2015·PLOS Genetics

Abstract

YAP1 is a major effector of the Hippo pathway and a well-established oncogene. Elevated YAP1 activity due to mutations in Hippo pathway components or YAP1 amplification is observed in several types of human cancers. Here we investigated its genomic binding landscape in YAP1-activated cancer cells, as well as in non-transformed cells. We demonstrate that TEAD transcription factors mediate YAP1 chromatin-binding genome-wide, further explaining their dominant role as primary mediators of YAP1-transcriptional activity. Moreover, we show that YAP1 largely exerts its transcriptional control via distal enhancers that are marked by H3K27 acetylation and that YAP1 is necessary for this chromatin mark at bound enhancers and the activity of the associated genes. This work establishes YAP1-mediated transcriptional regulation at distal enhancers and provides an expanded set of target genes resulting in a fundamental source to study YAP1 function in a normal and cancer setting.

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  • ChIP-seq and deepsequencing studies in cancer and normal cells showed that several YAP-binding regions also show a consensus motif for AP-1 transcriptional factors, suggesting that YAP/TEAD and AP-1 cooperatively regulate target genes.

    “ChIP-seq and deepsequencing studies in cancer and normal cells showed that several YAP-binding regions also show a consensus motif for AP-1 transcriptional factors suggesting that YAP/TEAD and AP-1 cooperatively regulate target genes representing a cross-talk between YAP and JNK signalling (74,75).”

    From A Tumour-Specific Molecular Network Promotes Tumour Growth in <i>Drosophila</i> by Enforcing a JNK-YKI Feedforward Loop (2023) · cites this paper as [74]

    In Results (‘The TEAD consensus motif is enriched in YAP1 binding sites’; page unavailable), the paper reports AP-1 motifs in YAP1-binding regions and proposes that YAP1/TEAD might cooperate with AP-1 under particular conditions. It does not establish cooperative regulation, and the Results on non-transformed IMR90 cells identify FOX—not AP-1—as the enriched secondary motif. The cited passages also do not establish the citing sentence’s proposed YAP–JNK cross-talk. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • YAP/TEAD bind distal regulatory elements to regulate transcription of target genes.

    “Third, YAP/TEAD bind distal regulatory elements to regulate transcription of target genes (73-75).”
  • Published ChIP-seq datasets reveal a similar phenomenon in human cancer cell lines.

    “Consistently, published ChIP-seq datasets34,38,39 reveal a similar phenomenon in human cancer cell lines (Figure S7F).”

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Authors
Stein, C., Bardet, A. F., Roma, G., Bergling, S., Clay, I., Ruchti, A., Agarinis, C., Schmelzle, T., Bouwmeester, T., Schübeler, D., & Bauer, A.
Affiliations
  • Novartis (Switzerland) (CH)
  • Friedrich Miescher Institute (CH)
  • University of Basel (CH)
Corresponding author
  • Schübeler, Dirk
  • Bauer, Andreas
Venue
PLOS Genetics
Published
2015-08-21
Volume
11
Issue
8
Pages
e1005465
ISSN
  • 1553-7390 (ISSN-L)
  • 1553-7404
OpenAlex
W1539804860
Cited by
414
References
98
Citations by year
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FWCI
14.36
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • PLoS Genetics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • European Commission (282510, 257082)
  • SystemsX.ch
  • FP7 Health (HEALTH-2010-257082, 282510)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
Keywords
YAP, TEAD transcription factors, Hippo signaling pathway, enhancer activation, distal enhancers, H3K27 acetylation, chromatin binding, transcriptional regulation, oncogenes, cancer
MeSH terms
YAP-Signaling Proteins, TEA Domain Transcription Factors, Acetylation, Base Sequence, Binding Sites, DNA-Binding Proteins, Enhancer Elements, Genetic, Histones, Humans, Nuclear Proteins, Phosphoproteins, Protein Binding, Protein Processing, Post-Translational, Transcription Factors, Transcriptional Activation, Consensus Sequence, Cell Line, Tumor, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, Transcriptome

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