STK25 suppresses Hippo signaling by regulating SAV1-STRIPAK antagonism

  1. Sung Jun Bae
  2. Lisheng Ni
  3. Xuelian Luo  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States

Abstract

The MST-LATS kinase cascade is central to the Hippo pathway that controls tissue homeostasis, development, and organ size. The PP2A complex STRIPAKSLMAP blocks MST1/2 activation. The GCKIII family kinases associate with STRIPAK, but the functions of these phosphatase-associated kinases remain elusive. We previously showed that the scaffolding protein SAV1 promotes Hippo signaling by counteracting STRIPAK (Bae et al. 2017). Here, we show that the GCKIII kinase STK25 promotes STRIPAK-mediated inhibition of MST2 in human cells. Depletion of STK25 enhances MST2 activation without affecting the integrity of STRIPAKSLMAP. STK25 directly phosphorylates SAV1 and diminishes the ability of SAV1 to inhibit STRIPAK. Thus, STK25 as the kinase component of STRIPAK can inhibit the function of the STRIPAK inhibitor SAV1. This mutual antagonism between STRIPAK and SAV1 controls the initiation of Hippo signaling.

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  1. Sung Jun Bae

    Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States
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  2. Lisheng Ni

    Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States
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  3. Xuelian Luo

    Departments of Pharmacology and Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States
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    xuelian.luo@utsouthwestern.edu
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Funding

National Institute of General Medical Sciences (GM107415)

  • Xuelian Luo

National Institute of General Medical Sciences (GM132275)

  • Xuelian Luo

Welch Foundation (I-1932)

  • Xuelian Luo

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. William I. Weis, Stanford University School of Medicine, United States

Publication history

  1. Received: January 9, 2020
  2. Accepted: April 10, 2020
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: April 15, 2020 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: April 24, 2020 (version 2)

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© 2020, Bae et al.

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  1. Sung Jun Bae
  2. Lisheng Ni
  3. Xuelian Luo
(2020)
STK25 suppresses Hippo signaling by regulating SAV1-STRIPAK antagonism
eLife 9:e54863.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.54863

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