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A new kid on the TGFbeta block: TAZ controls Smad nucleocytoplasmic shuttling
Katharine H Wrighton1, Fangyan Dai, Xin-Hua Feng
1Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Developmental Cell
|July 9, 2008
Abstract:
A recent study from Varelas et al. in Nature Cell Biology reveals a role for the transcriptional regulator TAZ in TGFbeta signaling. Not only does TAZ couple phospho-Smads to the transcriptional machinery, it is also essential for their nuclear accumulation.

