Endosomal phosphatidylserine is critical for the YAP signalling pathway in proliferating cells

Tatsuyuki Matsudaira, Kojiro Mukai, Taishin Noguchi, Junya Hasegawa, Tomohisa Hatta, Shun Ichiro Iemura, Tohru Natsume, Norio Miyamura, Hiroshi Nishina, Jun Nakayama, Kentaro Semba, Takuya Tomita, Shigeo Murata, Hiroyuki Arai, Tomohiko Taguchi

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Abstract

Yes-associated protein (YAP) is a recently discovered growth-promoting transcription coactivator that has been shown to regulate the malignancy of various cancers. How YAP is regulated is not fully understood. Here, we show that one of the factors regulating YAP is phosphatidylserine (PS) in recycling endosomes (REs). We use proximity biotinylation to find proteins proximal to PS. Among these proteins are YAP and multiple proteins related to YAP signalling. Knockdown of ATP8A1 (an RE PS-flippase) or evectin-2 (an RE-resident protein) and masking of PS in the cytoplasmic leaflet of membranes, all suppress nuclear localization of YAP and YAP-dependent transcription. ATP8A1 knockdown increases the phosphorylated (activated) form of Lats1 that phosphorylates and inactivates YAP, whereas evectin-2 knockdown reduces the ubiquitination and increased the level of Lats1. The proliferation of YAP-dependent metastatic cancer cells is suppressed by knockdown of ATP8A1 or evectin-2. These results suggest a link between a membrane phospholipid and cell proliferation.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1246
JournalNature Communications
Volume8
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017 Dec 1

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