YAP1 and WWTR1 (TAZ) are transcriptional co-activators, both homologues of the Drosophila Yorkie protein. They both interact with members of the TEAD family of transcription factors, and WWTR1 interacts as well with TBX5 and RUNX2, to promote gene expression. Their transcriptional targets include genes critical to regulation of cell proliferation and apoptosis. Their subcellular location is regulated by the Hippo signaling cascade: phosphorylation mediated by this cascade leads to the cytosolic sequestration of both proteins (Murakami et al. 2005; Oh and Irvine 2010).
Takeda S, Bonnamy JP, Owen MJ, Ducy P, Karsenty G.; ''Continuous expression of Cbfa1 in nonhypertrophic chondrocytes uncovers its ability to induce hypertrophic chondrocyte differentiation and partially rescues Cbfa1-deficient mice.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Ducy P, Zhang R, Geoffroy V, Ridall AL, Karsenty G.; ''Osf2/Cbfa1: a transcriptional activator of osteoblast differentiation.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Hong JH, Hwang ES, McManus MT, Amsterdam A, Tian Y, Kalmukova R, Mueller E, Benjamin T, Spiegelman BM, Sharp PA, Hopkins N, Yaffe MB.; ''TAZ, a transcriptional modulator of mesenchymal stem cell differentiation.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Zhao B, Ye X, Yu J, Li L, Li W, Li S, Yu J, Lin JD, Wang CY, Chinnaiyan AM, Lai ZC, Guan KL.; ''TEAD mediates YAP-dependent gene induction and growth control.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Zhang H, Liu CY, Zha ZY, Zhao B, Yao J, Zhao S, Xiong Y, Lei QY, Guan KL.; ''TEAD transcription factors mediate the function of TAZ in cell growth and epithelial-mesenchymal transition.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Zhao B, Li L, Lei Q, Guan KL.; ''The Hippo-YAP pathway in organ size control and tumorigenesis: an updated version.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Li XQ, Du X, Li DM, Kong PZ, Sun Y, Liu PF, Wang QS, Feng YM.; ''ITGBL1 Is a Runx2 Transcriptional Target and Promotes Breast Cancer Bone Metastasis by Activating the TGFβ Signaling Pathway.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Zhang HY, Jin L, Stilling GA, Ruebel KH, Coonse K, Tanizaki Y, Raz A, Lloyd RV.; ''RUNX1 and RUNX2 upregulate Galectin-3 expression in human pituitary tumors.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Thomas DM, Carty SA, Piscopo DM, Lee JS, Wang WF, Forrester WC, Hinds PW.; ''The retinoblastoma protein acts as a transcriptional coactivator required for osteogenic differentiation.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Kuo YH, Zaidi SK, Gornostaeva S, Komori T, Stein GS, Castilla LH.; ''Runx2 induces acute myeloid leukemia in cooperation with Cbfbeta-SMMHC in mice.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Tandon M, Chen Z, Pratap J.; ''Runx2 activates PI3K/Akt signaling via mTORC2 regulation in invasive breast cancer cells.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Lee MH, Kim YJ, Yoon WJ, Kim JI, Kim BG, Hwang YS, Wozney JM, Chi XZ, Bae SC, Choi KY, Cho JY, Choi JY, Ryoo HM.; ''Dlx5 specifically regulates Runx2 type II expression by binding to homeodomain-response elements in the Runx2 distal promoter.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Yoshida CA, Furuichi T, Fujita T, Fukuyama R, Kanatani N, Kobayashi S, Satake M, Takada K, Komori T.; ''Core-binding factor beta interacts with Runx2 and is required for skeletal development.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
van der Meer DL, Degenhardt T, Väisänen S, de Groot PJ, Heinäniemi M, de Vries SC, Müller M, Carlberg C, Kersten S.; ''Profiling of promoter occupancy by PPARalpha in human hepatoma cells via ChIP-chip analysis.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Sudol M, Harvey KF.; ''Modularity in the Hippo signaling pathway.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Cui CB, Cooper LF, Yang X, Karsenty G, Aukhil I.; ''Transcriptional coactivation of bone-specific transcription factor Cbfa1 by TAZ.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Roca H, Phimphilai M, Gopalakrishnan R, Xiao G, Franceschi RT.; ''Cooperative interactions between RUNX2 and homeodomain protein-binding sites are critical for the osteoblast-specific expression of the bone sialoprotein gene.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Yang DC, Yang MH, Tsai CC, Huang TF, Chen YH, Hung SC.; ''Hypoxia inhibits osteogenesis in human mesenchymal stem cells through direct regulation of RUNX2 by TWIST.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Vladimirova V, Waha A, Lückerath K, Pesheva P, Probstmeier R.; ''Runx2 is expressed in human glioma cells and mediates the expression of galectin-3.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Yoshida CA, Yamamoto H, Fujita T, Furuichi T, Ito K, Inoue K, Yamana K, Zanma A, Takada K, Ito Y, Komori T.; ''Runx2 and Runx3 are essential for chondrocyte maturation, and Runx2 regulates limb growth through induction of Indian hedgehog.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Zhang YY, Li X, Qian SW, Guo L, Huang HY, He Q, Liu Y, Ma CG, Tang QQ.; ''Down-regulation of type I Runx2 mediated by dexamethasone is required for 3T3-L1 adipogenesis.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Robledo RF, Rajan L, Li X, Lufkin T.; ''The Dlx5 and Dlx6 homeobox genes are essential for craniofacial, axial, and appendicular skeletal development.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Sato M, Morii E, Komori T, Kawahata H, Sugimoto M, Terai K, Shimizu H, Yasui T, Ogihara H, Yasui N, Ochi T, Kitamura Y, Ito Y, Nomura S.; ''Transcriptional regulation of osteopontin gene in vivo by PEBP2alphaA/CBFA1 and ETS1 in the skeletal tissues.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Chan SW, Lim CJ, Chong YF, Pobbati AV, Huang C, Hong W.; ''Hippo pathway-independent restriction of TAZ and YAP by angiomotin.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Ducy P, Starbuck M, Priemel M, Shen J, Pinero G, Geoffroy V, Amling M, Karsenty G.; ''A Cbfa1-dependent genetic pathway controls bone formation beyond embryonic development.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Lee Y, Shioi T, Kasahara H, Jobe SM, Wiese RJ, Markham BE, Izumo S.; ''The cardiac tissue-restricted homeobox protein Csx/Nkx2.5 physically associates with the zinc finger protein GATA4 and cooperatively activates atrial natriuretic factor gene expression.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Drissi H, Luc Q, Shakoori R, Chuva De Sousa Lopes S, Choi JY, Terry A, Hu M, Jones S, Neil JC, Lian JB, Stein JL, Van Wijnen AJ, Stein GS.; ''Transcriptional autoregulation of the bone related CBFA1/RUNX2 gene.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Oh H, Irvine KD.; ''Yorkie: the final destination of Hippo signaling.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Xiao L, Chen Y, Ji M, Dong J.; ''KIBRA regulates Hippo signaling activity via interactions with large tumor suppressor kinases.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Lee KK, Ohyama T, Yajima N, Tsubuki S, Yonehara S.; ''MST, a physiological caspase substrate, highly sensitizes apoptosis both upstream and downstream of caspase activation.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Long F.; ''Building strong bones: molecular regulation of the osteoblast lineage.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Benson DW, Silberbach GM, Kavanaugh-McHugh A, Cottrill C, Zhang Y, Riggs S, Smalls O, Johnson MC, Watson MS, Seidman JG, Seidman CE, Plowden J, Kugler JD.; ''Mutations in the cardiac transcription factor NKX2.5 affect diverse cardiac developmental pathways.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Wysokinski D, Blasiak J, Pawlowska E.; ''Role of RUNX2 in Breast Carcinogenesis.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Kundu M, Javed A, Jeon JP, Horner A, Shum L, Eckhaus M, Muenke M, Lian JB, Yang Y, Nuckolls GH, Stein GS, Liu PP.; ''Cbfbeta interacts with Runx2 and has a critical role in bone development.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Tribioli C, Lufkin T.; ''The murine Bapx1 homeobox gene plays a critical role in embryonic development of the axial skeleton and spleen.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Mortus JR, Zhang Y, Hughes DP.; ''Developmental pathways hijacked by osteosarcoma.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Lengner CJ, Hassan MQ, Serra RW, Lepper C, van Wijnen AJ, Stein JL, Lian JB, Stein GS.; ''Nkx3.2-mediated repression of Runx2 promotes chondrogenic differentiation.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Remue E, Meerschaert K, Oka T, Boucherie C, Vandekerckhove J, Sudol M, Gettemans J.; ''TAZ interacts with zonula occludens-1 and -2 proteins in a PDZ-1 dependent manner.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Underwood KF, D'Souza DR, Mochin-Peters M, Pierce AD, Kommineni S, Choe M, Bennett J, Gnatt A, Habtemariam B, MacKerell AD, Passaniti A.; ''Regulation of RUNX2 transcription factor-DNA interactions and cell proliferation by vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) prohormone activity.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Bialek P, Kern B, Yang X, Schrock M, Sosic D, Hong N, Wu H, Yu K, Ornitz DM, Olson EN, Justice MJ, Karsenty G.; ''A twist code determines the onset of osteoblast differentiation.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Murakami M, Nakagawa M, Olson EN, Nakagawa O.; ''A WW domain protein TAZ is a critical coactivator for TBX5, a transcription factor implicated in Holt-Oram syndrome.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Le Marer N.; ''GALECTIN-3 expression in differentiating human myeloid cells.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Chan SW, Lim CJ, Loo LS, Chong YF, Huang C, Hong W.; ''TEADs mediate nuclear retention of TAZ to promote oncogenic transformation.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Teplyuk NM, Galindo M, Teplyuk VI, Pratap J, Young DW, Lapointe D, Javed A, Stein JL, Lian JB, Stein GS, van Wijnen AJ.; ''Runx2 regulates G protein-coupled signaling pathways to control growth of osteoblast progenitors.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Oka T, Remue E, Meerschaert K, Vanloo B, Boucherie C, Gfeller D, Bader GD, Sidhu SS, Vandekerckhove J, Gettemans J, Sudol M.; ''Functional complexes between YAP2 and ZO-2 are PDZ domain-dependent, and regulate YAP2 nuclear localization and signalling.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Otto F, Kanegane H, Mundlos S.; ''Mutations in the RUNX2 gene in patients with cleidocranial dysplasia.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Karsenty G, Olson EN.; ''Bone and Muscle Endocrine Functions: Unexpected Paradigms of Inter-organ Communication.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Ito Y, Bae SC, Chuang LS.; ''The RUNX family: developmental regulators in cancer.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Pierce AD, Anglin IE, Vitolo MI, Mochin MT, Underwood KF, Goldblum SE, Kommineni S, Passaniti A.; ''Glucose-activated RUNX2 phosphorylation promotes endothelial cell proliferation and an angiogenic phenotype.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Zhou G, Zheng Q, Engin F, Munivez E, Chen Y, Sebald E, Krakow D, Lee B.; ''Dominance of SOX9 function over RUNX2 during skeletogenesis.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Ducy P, Karsenty G.; ''Two distinct osteoblast-specific cis-acting elements control expression of a mouse osteocalcin gene.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Li XQ, Lu JT, Tan CC, Wang QS, Feng YM.; ''RUNX2 promotes breast cancer bone metastasis by increasing integrin α5-mediated colonization.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Pande S, Browne G, Padmanabhan S, Zaidi SK, Lian JB, van Wijnen AJ, Stein JL, Stein GS.; ''Oncogenic cooperation between PI3K/Akt signaling and transcription factor Runx2 promotes the invasive properties of metastatic breast cancer cells.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Jaruga A, Hordyjewska E, Kandzierski G, Tylzanowski P.; ''Cleidocranial dysplasia and RUNX2-clinical phenotype-genotype correlation.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Kammerer M, Gutzwiller S, Stauffer D, Delhon I, Seltenmeyer Y, Fournier B.; ''Estrogen Receptor α (ERα) and Estrogen Related Receptor α (ERRα) are both transcriptional regulators of the Runx2-I isoform.''; PubMedEurope PMCScholia
MED1 is a component of each of the various Mediator complexes, that function as transcription co-activators. The MED1-containing compolexes include the DRIP, ARC, TRIP and CRSP compllexes.
The CTGF gene is transcribed to yield mRNA and the mRNA is translated to yield protein. Transcription of the CTGF gene is increased by both YAP1:TEAD and WWTR1(TAZ):TEAD transcriptional coactivator:transcription factor complexes, so that CTFG is one of the many genes whose expression is downregulated by the action of the hippo cascade (Zhang et al. 2009; Zhao et al. 2008).
In the nucleus the WWTR1 (TAZ) transcriptional coactivator can bind the TBX5 transcription factor and PCAF (KAT2B) histone acetyltransferase to form a complex. The stoichiometry of this complex is unknown (Murakami et al. 2005).
In the nucleus the WWTR1 (TAZ) transcriptional coactivator can bind the RUNX2 transcription factor to form a complex. This interaction has not been experimentally characterized in human cells but is inferred from properties of the homologous mouse proteins. The stoichiometry of this complex is unknown (Cui et al. 2003).
In the nucleus the WWTR1 (TAZ) transcriptional coactivator can bind any one of the four TEAD transcription factors to form a complex. The stoichiometry of this complex is unknown (Chan et al. 2009; Zhang et al. 2009).
In the nucleus the YAP1 transcriptional coactivator can bind any one of the four TEAD transcription factors to form a complex. The stoichiometry of this complex is unknown (Chan et al. 2009).
Transcription of the NPPA (ANF) gene is stimulated by the action of a transcription factor complex that includes WWTR1 (TAZ), TBX5, and the PCAF (KAT2B) histone acetyltransferase (Murakami et al. 2005).
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