Department of Pathology, Molecular Medicine, Queens University, Kingston, ON, Canada
WWTR1 (also called TAZ in publications. Therefore, TAZ is used in the following description) is a WW domaing-containing transcriptional coactivator, which was first identified as a 14-3-3 binding protein. TAZ is the downstream component in the Hippo pathway, and also has been found to interact with different pathways, such as Wnt, TGFbeta, etc. TAZ is involved in mesenchymal stem cell differentiation as well as tumorigenesis. High level of TAZ has been found in different cancers, such as breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, etc.
NCBI: 25937 MIM: 607392 HGNC: 24042 Ensembl: ENSG00000018408
dbSNP: 25937 ClinVar: 25937 TCGA: ENSG00000018408 COSMIC: WWTR1
Yulei Zhao ; Xiaolong Yang
WWTR1 (WW domain containing transcription regulator 1)
Atlas Genet Cytogenet Oncol Haematol. 2014-03-01
Online version: http://atlasgeneticsoncology.org/gene/44545/js/css/teaching-explorer/