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ArticleThe EMBO journal2023

Phase separation of Hippo signalling complexes.

Teresa T Bonello, Danfeng Cai, Georgina C Fletcher, Kyler Wiengartner, Victoria Pengilly, Kimberly S Lange, Zhe Liu, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Jennifer M Kavran, Barry J Thompson

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Article in The EMBO journal, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
7.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Teresa T BonelloEMBL Australia, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Danfeng CaiHHMI Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA, USA.
Georgina C FletcherEpithelial Biology Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.
Kyler WiengartnerDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Victoria PengillyEMBL Australia, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Kimberly S LangeDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Zhe LiuHHMI Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA, USA.
Jennifer Lippincott-SchwartzHHMI Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA, USA.
Jennifer M KavranDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Barry J ThompsonEMBL Australia, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-0103-040X
Johns Hopkins University · USAustralian National University · AUJanelia Research Campus · USThe Francis Crick Institute · GB

Funding

TRAINING IN AREAS FUNDAMENTAL TO CANCER RESEARCHT32CA009110 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI MATUNIS, MICHAEL J., WEERARATNA, ASHANI T · 1985 to 2025
$13.1M
The Chemistry-Biology Interface Program at Johns Hopkins UniversityT32GM080189 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI ROKITA, STEVEN E · 2008 to 2022
$3.5M
Probing the Formation and Function of Transcription Hubs-Equipment SupplementR35GM142837 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI CAI, DANFENG · 2021 to 2025
$2.4M
Mechanistic studies of core Hippo pathway kinases-Equipment SupplementR01GM134000 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI KAVRAN, JENNIFER MARIE · 2019 to 2023
$1.7M
The Chemistry-Biology Interface Program at Johns Hopkins UniversityT32GM149382 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI STEVEN E ROKITA · 2023 to 2026
$1.4M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCI NIH HHS T32 CA009110NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM134000NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM142837NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM080189NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM149382
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Hippo pathway was originally discovered to control tissue growth in Drosophila and includes the Hippo kinase (Hpo; MST1/2 in mammals), scaffold protein Salvador (Sav; SAV1 in mammals) and the Warts kinase (Wts; LATS1/2 in mammals). The Hpo kinase is activated by binding to Crumbs-Expanded (Crb-Ex) and/or Merlin-Kibra (Mer-Kib) proteins at the apical domain of epithelial cells. Here we show that activation of Hpo also involves the formation of supramolecular complexes with properties of a biomolecular condensate, including concentration dependence and sensitivity to starvation, macromolecular crowding, or 1,6-hexanediol treatment. Overexpressing Ex or Kib induces formation of micron-scale Hpo condensates in the cytoplasm, rather than at the apical membrane. Several Hippo pathway components contain unstructured low-complexity domains and purified Hpo-Sav complexes undergo phase separation in vitro. Formation of Hpo condensates is conserved in human cells. We propose that apical Hpo kinase activation occurs in phase separated "signalosomes" induced by clustering of upstream pathway components.

Indexed as

Drosophila ProteinsHippo Signaling PathwayAnimalsDrosophilaDrosophila melanogasterHippo KinasesHumansIntracellular Signaling Peptides and ProteinsMammalsNeurofibromin 2Protein Serine-Threonine KinasesSignal TransductionTumor Suppressor ProteinsDrosophila ProteinsHippo Kinaseshpo protein, DrosophilaIntracellular Signaling Peptides and ProteinsNeurofibromin 2Protein Serine-Threonine KinasesTumor Suppressor ProteinscondensatesepitheliaHippo signallingmechanobiology

Identifiers

PMID36807601
PMCPMC10015380
OpenAlexW4321373301

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