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ArticleCell genomics2025

Interpreting regulatory mechanisms of Hippo signaling through a deep learning sequence model.

Khyati Dalal, Charles McAnany, Melanie Weilert, Mary Cathleen McKinney, Sabrina Krueger, Julia Zeitlinger

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Article in Cell genomics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Khyati DalalStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO, USA; Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA.
Charles McAnanyStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO, USA.
Melanie WeilertStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO, USA.
Mary Cathleen McKinneyStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO, USA.
Sabrina KruegerStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO, USA.
Julia ZeitlingerStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO, USA; Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA. Electronic address: jbz@stowers.org.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Signaling pathway components are well studied, but how they mediate cell-type-specific transcription responses is an unresolved problem. Using the Hippo pathway in mouse trophoblast stem cells as a model, we show that the DNA binding of signaling effectors is driven by cell-type-specific sequence rules that can be learned genome wide by deep learning models. Through model interpretation and experimental validation, we show that motifs for the cell-type-specific transcription factor TFAP2C enhance TEAD4/YAP1 binding in a nucleosome-range and distance-dependent manner, driving synergistic enhancer activation. We also discovered that Tead double motifs are widespread, highly active canonical response elements. Molecular dynamics simulations suggest that TEAD4 binds them cooperatively through surprisingly labile protein-protein interactions that depend on the DNA template. These results show that the response to signaling pathways is encoded in the cis-regulatory sequences and that interpreting the rules reveals insights into the mechanisms by which signaling effectors influence cell-type-specific enhancer activity.

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Deep LearningProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesSignal TransductionAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAnimalsDNA-Binding ProteinsEnhancer Elements, GeneticHippo Signaling PathwayMiceMolecular Dynamics SimulationMuscle ProteinsPhosphoproteinsProtein BindingTEA Domain Transcription FactorsTranscription FactorsTrophoblastsAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingDNA-Binding ProteinsMuscle ProteinsPhosphoproteinsProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesTead4 protein, mouseTEA Domain Transcription FactorsTranscription FactorsYap1 protein, mouseYAP-Signaling ProteinsBPNetChIP-nexusCRISPR-Cas9enhancer redesignHippo signaling pathwayinterpretable deep learningmolecular dynamicsmouse trophoblast stem cellsTEAD4transcription factorsYAP1

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PMID40174587
PMCPMC12008814

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