Abstract
The Hippo tumor suppressor pathway is fundamental to the coordination of death, growth, proliferation, and differentiation on the cellular level. At the molecular level, a highly conserved Hippo core cassette is central for the regulation of effector activities such as the co-transcriptional activity of YAP. In particular, the mammalian MST1/2 serine/threonine protein kinases (termed Hippo kinase in Drosophila melanogaster) can act as central signal transducers as part of the Hippo core cassette. In this chapter we describe in vitro kinase assays using recombinant MST1/2 kinases and recombinant MST1/2 kinase substrate.
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The Hergovich laboratory was supported by the Wellcome Trust (090090/Z/09/Z), BBSRC (BB/I021248/1), Worldwide Cancer Research (AICR; 11-0634), UCL Cancer Research UK Centre and the National Institute for Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre.
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Gomez, M., Kulaberoglu, Y., Hergovich, A. (2019). MST1/2 Kinase Assays Using Recombinant Proteins. In: Hergovich, A. (eds) The Hippo Pathway. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1893. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8910-2_24
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