The fat cadherin acts through the hippo tumor-suppressor pathway to regulate tissue size

Willecke, Maria, Hamaratoglu Dion, Fisun ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1461-9248, Kango-Singh, Madhuri, Udan, Ryan, Chen, Chiao-lin, Tao, Chunyao, Zhang, Xinwei and Halder, Georg 2006. The fat cadherin acts through the hippo tumor-suppressor pathway to regulate tissue size. Current Biology 16 (21) , pp. 2090-2100. 10.1016/j.cub.2006.09.005

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Abstract

Background The Hippo tumor-suppressor pathway has emerged as a key signaling pathway that controls tissue size in Drosophila. Merlin, the Drosophila homolog of the human Neurofibromatosis type-2 (NF2) tumor-suppressor gene, and the related protein Expanded are the most upstream components of the Hippo pathway identified so far. However, components acting upstream of Expanded and Merlin, such as transmembrane receptors, have not yet been identified. Results Here, we report that the protocadherin Fat acts as an upstream component in the Hippo pathway. Fat is a known tumor-suppressor gene in Drosophila, and fat mutants have severely overgrown imaginal discs. We found that the overgrowth phenotypes of fat mutants are similar to those of mutants in Hippo pathway components: fat mutant cells continued to proliferate after wild-type cells stopped proliferating, and fat mutant cells deregulated Hippo target genes such as cyclin E and diap1. Fat acts genetically and biochemically upstream of other Hippo pathway components such as Expanded, the Hippo and Warts kinases, and the transcriptional coactivator Yorkie. Fat is required for the stability of Expanded and its localization to the plasma membrane. In contrast, Fat is not required for Merlin localization, and Fat and Merlin act in parallel in growth regulation. Conclusions Taken together, our data identify a cell-surface molecule that may act as a receptor of the Hippo signaling pathway.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences
Publisher:	Elsevier (Cell Press)
ISSN:	0960-9822
Date of Acceptance:	1 September 2006
Last Modified:	13 Jan 2023 02:42
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/118491

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