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NATURE CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 7-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncb3084
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26114004, 25870363, 25111712] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The rapidly self-renewing intestinal epithelium represents an exquisite model for stem cell biology. So far, genetic studies in mice have uncovered crucial roles for several signalling pathways in the tissue. Here we show, by using intestine-specific gene transfer (iGT), that Hippo signalling effectors, YAP and TAZ, promote both the proliferation of intestinal stem/progenitor cells and their differentiation into goblet cells. These functions of YAP/TAZ are regulated by the upstream Hippo pathway kinases MST1/2 and LATS1/2. Moreover, we identify TEADs and Klf4 as partner transcription factors of YAP/TAZ in the proliferation and differentiation processes, respectively. These results indicate that Hippo signalling plays a dual role in renewal of the intestinal epithelium through the regulation of two different processes, stem/progenitor cell proliferation and differentiation into goblet cells, using two different types of transcription factor. Moreover, iGT should provide a robust platform to elucidate molecular mechanisms of intestinal epithelium self-renewal.
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