αE-catenin inhibits YAP/TAZ activity to regulate signalling centre formation during tooth development

It is unclear which signals regulate the establishment of the tooth signalling centre, the enamel knot (EK). Here, the authors show that EK formation depends on αE-catenin, which acts to restrict the Hippo pathway transcription factors Yes-associated protein (YAP) and TAZ.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chun-Ying Li, Jimmy Hu, Hongbing Lu, Jing Lan, Wei Du, Nicole Galicia, Ophir D. Klein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12133