Telomere dysfunction activates YAP1 to drive tissue inflammation

How telomere dysfunction is directly linked to inflammation in humans is currently unclear. Here the authors reveal that telomere dysfunction drives activation of the YAP1 transcription factor, up-regulating the pro inflammatory factor, pro-IL-18 thus revealing a link between telomere dysfunction an...

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Main Authors: Deepavali Chakravarti, Baoli Hu, Xizeng Mao, Asif Rashid, Jiexi Li, Jun Li, Wen-ting Liao, Elizabeth M. Whitley, Prasenjit Dey, Pingping Hou, Kyle A. LaBella, Andrew Chang, Guocan Wang, Denise J. Spring, Pingna Deng, Di Zhao, Xin Liang, Zhengdao Lan, Yiyun Lin, Sharmistha Sarkar, Christopher Terranova, Yonathan Lissanu Deribe, Sarah E. Blutt, Pablo Okhuysen, Jianhua Zhang, Eduardo Vilar, Ole Haagen Nielsen, Andrew Dupont, Mamoun Younes, Kalyani R. Patel, Noah F. Shroyer, Kunal Rai, Mary K. Estes, Y. Alan Wang, Alison A. Bertuch, Ronald A. DePinho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18420-w