Description: Homo sapiens Yes-associated protein 1 (YAP1), transcript variant 1, mRNA. RefSeq Summary (NM_001130145): This gene encodes a downstream nuclear effector of the Hippo signaling pathway which is involved in development, growth, repair, and homeostasis. This gene is known to play a role in the development and progression of multiple cancers as a transcriptional regulator of this signaling pathway and may function as a potential target for cancer treatment. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2013]. Transcript (Including UTRs) Position: hg19 chr11:101,981,192-102,104,154 Size: 122,963 Total Exon Count: 9 Strand: + Coding Region Position: hg19 chr11:101,981,580-102,100,671 Size: 119,092 Coding Exon Count: 9
ID:YAP1_HUMAN DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=Yorkie homolog; AltName: Full=65 kDa Yes-associated protein; Short=YAP65; FUNCTION: Transcriptional regulator which can act both as a coactivator and a corepressor and is the critical downstream regulatory target in the Hippo signaling pathway that plays a pivotal role in organ size control and tumor suppression by restricting proliferation and promoting apoptosis. The core of this pathway is composed of a kinase cascade wherein STK3/MST2 and STK4/MST1, in complex with its regulatory protein SAV1, phosphorylates and activates LATS1/2 in complex with its regulatory protein MOB1, which in turn phosphorylates and inactivates YAP1 oncoprotein and WWTR1/TAZ. Plays a key role to control cell proliferation in response to cell contact. Phosphorylation of YAP1 by LATS1/2 inhibits its translocation into the nucleus to regulate cellular genes important for cell proliferation, cell death, and cell migration. The presence of TEAD transcription factors are required for it to stimulate gene expression, cell growth, anchorage-independent growth, and epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) induction. Isoform 2 and isoform 3 can activate the C-terminal fragment (CTF) of ERBB4 (isoform 3). SUBUNIT: Binds to the SH3 domain of the YES kinase. Binds to WBP1 and WBP2. Binds, in vitro, through the WW1 domain, to neural isoforms of ENAH that contain the PPSY motif (By similarity). The phosphorylated form interacts with YWHAB. Interacts (via WW domains) with LATS1 (via PPxY motif 2). Interacts with LATS2. Isoform 2 and isoform 3 interact (via WW domain 1) with isoform 3 of ERBB4 (via PPxY motif 2). Interacts with TEAD1, TEAD2, TEAD3 and TEAD4. Interacts with TP73. Interacts with RUNX1. Interacts with HCK. INTERACTION: Q15797:SMAD1; NbExp=3; IntAct=EBI-1044059, EBI-1567153; SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Cytoplasm. Nucleus. Note=Both phosphorylation and cell density can regulate its subcellular localization. Phosphorylation sequesters it in the cytoplasm by inhibiting its translocation into the nucleus. At low density, predominantly nuclear and is translocated to the cytoplasm at high density. TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Increased expression seen in some liver and prostate cancers. Isoforms lacking the transactivation domain found in striatal neurons of patients with Huntington disease (at protein level). PTM: Phosphorylated by LATS1 and LATS2; leading to cytoplasmic translocation and inactivation. Phosphorylated by ABL1; leading to YAP1 stabilization, enhanced interaction with TP73 and recruitment onto proapoptotic genes; in response to DNA damage. Phosphorylation at Ser-400 and Ser-403 by CK1 is triggered by previous phosphorylation at Ser-397 by LATS proteins and leads to YAP1 ubiquitination by SCF(beta-TRCP) E3 ubiquitin ligase and subsequent degradation. Phosphorylated at Thr-119, Ser-138, Thr- 154, Ser-367 and Thr-412 by MAPK8/JNK1 and MAPK9/JNK2, which is required for the regukation of apoptosis by YAP1. PTM: Ubiquitinated by SCF(beta-TRCP) E3 ubiquitin ligase. SIMILARITY: Belongs to the YORKIE family. SIMILARITY: Contains 2 WW domains.
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Genetic Association Studies of Complex Diseases and Disorders
Genetic Association Database (archive): YAP1 CDC HuGE Published Literature: YAP1 Positive Disease Associations: Alzheimer Disease
, Brain Related Studies:
Alzheimer Disease S J Furney et al. Molecular psychiatry 2011, Genome-wide association with MRI atrophy measures as a quantitative trait locus for Alzheimer's disease., Molecular psychiatry.
[PubMed 21116278]
Brain Sudha Seshadri et al. BMC medical genetics 2007, Genetic correlates of brain aging on MRI and cognitive test measures: a genome-wide association and linkage analysis in the Framingham Study., BMC medical genetics.
[PubMed 17903297]
Our results suggest that genes associated with clinical neurological disease also have detectable effects on subclinical phenotypes. These hypothesis generating data illustrate the use of an unbiased approach to discover novel pathways that may be involved in brain aging, and could be used to replicate observations made in other studies.
Brain Sudha Seshadri et al. BMC medical genetics 2007, Genetic correlates of brain aging on MRI and cognitive test measures: a genome-wide association and linkage analysis in the Framingham Study., BMC medical genetics.
[PubMed 17903297]
Our results suggest that genes associated with clinical neurological disease also have detectable effects on subclinical phenotypes. These hypothesis generating data illustrate the use of an unbiased approach to discover novel pathways that may be involved in brain aging, and could be used to replicate observations made in other studies.
The RNAfold program from the Vienna RNA Package is used to perform the secondary structure predictions and folding calculations. The estimated folding energy is in kcal/mol. The more negative the energy, the more secondary structure the RNA is likely to have.
ModBase Predicted Comparative 3D Structure on P46937
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Orthologous Genes in Other Species
Orthologies between human, mouse, and rat are computed by taking the best BLASTP hit, and filtering out non-syntenic hits. For more distant species reciprocal-best BLASTP hits are used. Note that the absence of an ortholog in the table below may reflect incomplete annotations in the other species rather than a true absence of the orthologous gene.
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