Hippo Pathway Key to Ploidy Checkpoint
Menée in vitro et in vivo, cette étude met en évidence des mécanismes par lesquels un échec de la dernière phase de la mitose cellulaire induit une activation de la voie de signalisation du gène suppresseur de tumeurs Hippo
Tetraploid cells generated by abnormal cell division are often arrested during the cell cycle or cleared by apoptosis. Evasion of these defense mechanisms leads to genomic instability and tumorigenesis. In this issue, Ganem et al. report that extra centrosome-induced activation of the Hippo pathway kinase LATS2 is a key mechanism of tetraploidy-induced cell-cycle arrest.
Cell , commentaire, 2013