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Liem T Nguyen1, Maria S Tretiakova2, Mark R Silvis1, Jared Lucas1, Olga Klezovitch1, Ilsa Coleman1, Hamid Bolouri1, Vassily I Kutyavin1, Colm Morrissey3, Lawrence D True4, Peter S Nelson5, Valeri Vasioukhin6.
Abstract
The significance of ERG in human prostate cancer is unclear because mouse prostate is resistant to ERG-mediated transformation. We determined that ERG activates the transcriptional program regulated by YAP1 of the Hippo signaling pathway and found that prostate-specific activation of either ERG or YAP1 in mice induces similar transcriptional changes and results in age-related prostate tumors. ERG binds to chromatin regions occupied by TEAD/YAP1 and transactivates Hippo target genes. In addition, in human luminal-type prostate cancer cells, ERG binds to the promoter of YAP1 and is necessary for YAP1 expression. These results provide direct genetic evidence of a causal role for ERG in prostate cancer and reveal a connection between ERG and the Hippo signaling pathway.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26058078 PMCID: PMC4461839 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2015.05.005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cancer Cell ISSN: 1535-6108 Impact factor: 31.743