Control of stem cell renewal and fate by YAP and TAZ

JH Driskill, D Pan - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2023‏ - nature.com
Complex physiological processes control whether stem cells self-renew, differentiate or
remain quiescent. Two decades of research have placed the Hippo pathway, a highly …

Mechanical regulation of chromatin and transcription

S Dupont, SA Wickström - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022‏ - nature.com
Cells and tissues generate and are exposed to various mechanical forces that act across a
range of scales, from tissues to cells to organelles. Forces provide crucial signals to inform …

Modelling human blastocysts by reprogramming fibroblasts into iBlastoids

X Liu, JP Tan, J Schröder, A Aberkane, JF Ouyang… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
Human pluripotent and trophoblast stem cells have been essential alternatives to
blastocysts for understanding early human development,,–. However, these simple culture …

Hippo–YAP/TAZ signalling in organ regeneration and regenerative medicine

IM Moya, G Halder - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019‏ - nature.com
The Hippo pathway and its downstream effectors, the transcriptional co-activators Yes-
associated protein (YAP) and transcriptional co-activator with PDZ-binding motif (TAZ) …

Derivation of trophoblast stem cells from naïve human pluripotent stem cells

C Dong, M Beltcheva, P Gontarz, B Zhang, P Popli… - elife, 2020‏ - elifesciences.org
Naïve human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) provide a unique experimental platform of cell
fate decisions during pre-implantation development, but their lineage potential remains …

Hallmarks of totipotent and pluripotent stem cell states

P Du, J Wu - Cell Stem Cell, 2024‏ - cell.com
Though totipotency and pluripotency are transient during early embryogenesis, they
establish the foundation for the development of all mammals. Studying these in vivo has …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation of TEAD transcription factors in cancer biology

HD Huh, DH Kim, HS Jeong, HW Park - Cells, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
Transcriptional enhanced associate domain (TEAD) transcription factors play important roles
during development, cell proliferation, regeneration, and tissue homeostasis. TEAD …

Naive human embryonic stem cells can give rise to cells with a trophoblast-like transcriptome and methylome

JK Cinkornpumin, SY Kwon, Y Guo, I Hossain, J Sirois… - Stem cell reports, 2020‏ - cell.com
Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) readily differentiate to somatic or germ lineages but
have impaired ability to form extra-embryonic lineages such as placenta or yolk sac. Here …

Mechanisms of human embryo development: from cell fate to tissue shape and back

MN Shahbazi - Development, 2020‏ - journals.biologists.com
Gene regulatory networks and tissue morphogenetic events drive the emergence of shape
and function: the pillars of embryo development. Although model systems offer a window …

Highly cooperative chimeric super-SOX induces naive pluripotency across species

CM MacCarthy, G Wu, V Malik, Y Menuchin-Lasowski… - Cell Stem Cell, 2024‏ - cell.com
Our understanding of pluripotency remains limited: iPSC generation has only been
established for a few model species, pluripotent stem cell lines exhibit inconsistent …