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ArticleLife science alliance2025

Pipeline to evaluate YAP-TEAD inhibitors indicates TEAD inhibition represses

Richard Cunningham, Siyang Jia, Krishna Purohit, Michaela Noskova Fairley, Marcin K Maniak, Yue Lin, Ning Sze Hui, Rebecca E Graham, Adriano G Rossi, Justyna Cholewa-Waclaw and 3 more

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Article in Life science alliance, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Amivantamab Induces Immune-Mediated Cytotoxicity in Mesothelioma Through EGFR and MET Engagement.Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer · 2026
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  2. The Regulation and Function of Hippo/YAP Pathway in Cancer.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Richard CunninghamCentre for Inflammation Research, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, The University of Edinburgh, BioQuarter, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4127-8917
Siyang JiaCentre for Inflammation Research, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, The University of Edinburgh, BioQuarter, Edinburgh, UK.
Krishna PurohitCentre for Inflammation Research, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, The University of Edinburgh, BioQuarter, Edinburgh, UK.
Michaela Noskova FairleyCentre for Inflammation Research, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, The University of Edinburgh, BioQuarter, Edinburgh, UK.
Marcin K ManiakCentre for Inflammation Research, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, The University of Edinburgh, BioQuarter, Edinburgh, UK.
Yue LinCentre for Inflammation Research, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, The University of Edinburgh, BioQuarter, Edinburgh, UK.
Ning Sze HuiCentre for Inflammation Research, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, The University of Edinburgh, BioQuarter, Edinburgh, UK.
Rebecca E GrahamCentre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0590-4135
Adriano G RossiCentre for Inflammation Research, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, The University of Edinburgh, BioQuarter, Edinburgh, UK.
Justyna Cholewa-WaclawHigh Content Screening Facility, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Pierre O BagnaninchiCentre for Regenerative Medicine, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5433-9630
Neil O CarragherCancer Research UK Scotland Centre, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5541-9747
Carsten Gram HansenCentre for Inflammation Research, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, The University of Edinburgh, BioQuarter, Edinburgh, UK Carsten.G.Hansen@ed.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-0746-7482

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As the core, tumorigenic downstream effectors of the Hippo signalling pathway, YAP/TAZ and the TEAD family of transcription factors represent attractive targets for drug discovery efforts within cancer research. This is particularly true in the context of pleural mesothelioma, in which there are many recent preclinical developments and clinical trials evaluating the efficacy of TEAD inhibitors. The range of inhibitors has shown great promise, but comparisons of their performances are so far limited. Here, we develop a high-content pipeline that enables a comparative analysis of currently developed YAP/TAZ-TEAD inhibitors. We take advantage of isogenic cellular models that enable us to examine inhibitor specificity. We identify genetic compensation of the Hippo pathway transcriptional module, with implications for therapeutic targeting, and implement Cell Painting to develop a detailed morphological profiling pipeline that enables further characterisation, quantification, and analysis of off-target effects. Our pipeline is scalable and allows us to establish specificity and comparative potency within cancer-relevant assays in a clinically relevant cellular model of pleural mesothelioma.

Indexed as

Adaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingDNA-Binding ProteinsMesotheliomaNeurofibromin 2Transcription FactorsCell Line, TumorGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHippo Signaling PathwayHumansLung NeoplasmsMesothelioma, MalignantMutationPleural NeoplasmsSignal TransductionTEA Domain Transcription FactorsYAP-Signaling ProteinsAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingDNA-Binding ProteinsNeurofibromin 2TEA Domain Transcription FactorsTranscription FactorsYAP1 protein, humanYAP-Signaling Proteins

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PMID40744733
PMCPMC12314556

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