YAPping about differentiation therapy in muscle cancer

Cancer Cell. 2014 Aug 11;26(2):154-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2014.07.011.

Abstract

Overcoming a presumed differentiation block in the childhood muscle cancer embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma is often thought to hold promise as an approach to replace cytotoxic chemotherapy with molecularly-targeted differentiation therapies. In this issue of Cancer Cell, Tremblay and colleagues implicate YAP1 and the Hippo signaling pathway in the maintenance of differentiation-arrested and proliferative phenotypes for embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing / physiology*
  • Animals
  • Cell Transformation, Neoplastic / metabolism*
  • Humans
  • Muscle Neoplasms / metabolism*
  • Phosphoproteins / physiology*
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma, Embryonal / metabolism*
  • Satellite Cells, Skeletal Muscle / pathology*
  • Transcription Factors
  • YAP-Signaling Proteins

Substances

  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
  • Phosphoproteins
  • Transcription Factors
  • YAP-Signaling Proteins
  • YAP1 protein, human