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?-catenin-mediated YAP signaling promotes human glioma growth.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hippo/YAP pathway is known to be important for development, growth and organogenesis, and dysregulation of this pathway leads to tumor progression.We and others find that YAP is up-regulated in human gliomas and associated with worse prognosis of patients. However, the role and mechanism of YAP in glioma progression is largely unknown.

Methods

The expression of YAP in glioma tissues was detected by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) and immunoblotting. The effect of YAP on glioma progression was examined using cell growth assays and intracranial glioma model. The effect of YAP on ?-catenin protein level, subcellular location and transcription activity was examined by immunoblotting, immunofluorescence and RT-PCR.

Results

Firstly, knockdown of YAP inhibited glioma cell proliferation in vitro and tumor growth in vivo. In addition, YAP modulated the protein level, subcellular location and transcription activity of ?-catenin via regulating the activity of GSK3?. Lastly, ?-catenin partially mediated the effect of YAP on glioma cell proliferation.

Conclusion

Our findings identify that YAP promotes human glioma growth through enhancing Wnt/?-catenin signaling. In addition, this study provides a new crosstalk mechanism between Hippo/YAP and Wnt/?-catenin pathways, which suggests a new strategy for human glioma treatment.

SUBMITTER: Wang Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5622484 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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β-catenin-mediated YAP signaling promotes human glioma growth.

Wang Yan Y Pan Peng P Wang Zhaohao Z Zhang Yu Y Xie Peng P Geng Decheng D Jiang Yang Y Yu Rutong R Zhou Xiuping X

Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR 20170929 1

<h4>Background</h4>Hippo/YAP pathway is known to be important for development, growth and organogenesis, and dysregulation of this pathway leads to tumor progression.We and others find that YAP is up-regulated in human gliomas and associated with worse prognosis of patients. However, the role and mechanism of YAP in glioma progression is largely unknown.<h4>Methods</h4>The expression of YAP in glioma tissues was detected by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) and immunoblotting. The ef ...[more]

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