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Breadcrumb Nic Tapon Tapon lab Apoptosis and Proliferation Control Laboratory : Publications Lab contentLab contentIn this section Overview Areas of interest Publications Members Vacancies Laser scanning confocal microscopy image of the histoblasts, the cells that form the abdomen of the adult fruit fly, this image was taken at the Crick by Dr John Robert Davis. 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(1)Molecular Cell (1)Molecular Systems Biology (1)Nature Cell Biology (1)Physical Review Letters (1)Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology (1) Facet Journal Publications Displaying 1 - 20 of 35Last updated : 29 January 2023 03:43 Risk of reactivation of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and tuberculosis (TB) and complications of hepatitis C virus (HCV) following tocilizumab therapy: A systematic review to inform risk assessment in the COVID-19 era Authors (7) Cori Campbell Monique I Andersson M Azim Ansari Olivia Moswela Siraj A Misbah Paul Klenerman Philippa C Matthews Frontiers in Medicine Published 20 August 2021 Crick labsPhilippa MatthewsFull details RASSF8-mediated transport of Echinoid via the exocyst promotes Drosophila wing elongation and epithelial ordering Authors (8) Eunice HY Chan Yanxiang ZhouBirgit AerneMaxine HolderAnne WestonDavid BarryLucy CollinsonNicolas Tapon Development Published 15 October 2021 Crick labs/ facilitiesNic TaponLight MicroscopyElectron MicroscopyFull details Casein kinase 1 family proteins promote Slimb-dependent Expanded degradation Authors (6) Alexander D FulfordMaxine HolderDavid FrithBram SnijdersNicolas Tapon Paulo S Ribeiro eLife Published 30 September 2019 Crick labs/ facilitiesNic TaponProteomicsLight MicroscopyGenomics/Equipment ParkFull details Hippo signalling during development Authors (2)John DavisNicolas Tapon Development Published 16 September 2019 Crick labsNic TaponFull details ASPP proteins discriminate between PP1 catalytic subunits through their SH3 domain and the PP1 C-tail Authors (15) M Teresa BertranStephane Mouilleron Yanxiang Zhou Rakhi Bajaj Federico Uliana Ganesan Senthil Kumar[...]Nicola O'Reilly Matthias Gstaiger Rebecca Page Wolfgang PetiNicolas Tapon Nature Communications Published 15 February 2019 Crick labs/ facilitiesNic TaponStructural BiologyPeptide ChemistryProteomicsLight MicroscopyFermentationFull details Stability and roughness of interfaces in mechanically regulated tissues Authors (2)John WilliamsonGuillaume Salbreux Physical Review Letters Published 7 December 2018 Crick labsNic TaponGuillaume SalbreuxFull details Apical and basal matrix remodeling control epithelial morphogenesis Authors (9)Maria Carmen Diaz De La Loza RP Ray P Ganguly S AltJohn Davis A HoppeNicolas TaponGuillaume Salbreux BJ Thompson Developmental Cell Published 2 July 2018 Crick labsBarry ThompsonNic TaponGuillaume SalbreuxFull details Mechanical strain regulates the Hippo pathway in Drosophila Authors (6)Georgina FletcherMaria Carmen Diaz De La Loza Nerea Borreguero MuñozMaxine HolderMario Aguilar Aragon Barry J Thompson Development Published 8 March 2018 Crick labs/ facilitiesBarry ThompsonNic TaponLight MicroscopyFull details Upstairs, downstairs: spatial regulation of Hippo signalling Authors (3) Alexander FulfordNicolas Tapon Paulo S Ribeiro Current Opinion in Cell Biology Published 16 November 2017 Crick labsNic TaponFull details Stable MOB1 interaction with Hippo/MST is not essential for development and tissue growth control Authors (15) Yavuz Kulaberoglu Kui LinMaxine Holder Zhongchao Gai Marta Gomez Belul Assefa Shifa[...] Ewan St John Smith Ivana BjedovNicolas Tapon Geng Wu Alexander Hergovich Nature Communications Published 25 September 2017 Crick labsNic TaponFull details Meru couples planar cell polarity with apical-basal polarity during asymmetric cell division Authors (6) Jennifer J BanerjeeBirgit AerneMaxine Holder Simon Hauri Matthias GstaigerNicolas Tapon eLife Published 30 June 2017 Crick labs/ facilitiesNic TaponLight MicroscopyFull details EpiTools: an open-source image analysis toolkit for quantifying epithelial growth dynamics Authors (8) Davide Heller Andreas Hoppe Simon Restrepo Lorenzo Gatti Alexander L TournierNicolas Tapon Konrad Basler Yanlan Mao Developmental Cell Published 11 January 2016 Crick labsNic TaponFull details The Hippo pathway core cassette regulates asymmetric cell division Authors (6) Alyona Keder Noemí Rives-QuintoBirgit Aerne Maribel FrancoNicolas Tapon Ana Carmena Current Biology Published 2 November 2015 Crick labsNic TaponFull details Differential control of Yorkie activity by LKB1/AMPK and the Hippo/Warts cascade in the central nervous system Authors (3) Ieva GailiteBirgit AerneNicolas Tapon Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Published 15 September 2015 Crick labs/ facilitiesNic TaponStructural BiologyFull details Patterned anchorage to the apical extracellular matrix defines tissue shape in the developing appendages of Drosophila Authors (7) Robert P Ray Alexis Matamoro-Vidal Paulo S RibeiroNicolas Tapon David Houle Isaac Salazar-Ciudad Barry J Thompson Developmental Cell Published 10 August 2015 Crick labsBarry ThompsonNic TaponFull details Hippo stabilises its adaptor Salvador by antagonising the HECT ubiquitin ligase Herc4 Authors (4)Birgit Aerne Ieva Gailite David SimsNicolas Tapon PLOS ONE Published 30 June 2015 Crick labsNic TaponFull details The Hippo pathway promotes cell survival in response to chemical stress Authors (7) F Di Cara TM Maile BD Parsons A Magico S BasuNicolas Tapon K King-Jones Cell Death and Differentiation Published 13 March 2015 Crick labsNic TaponFull details Drosophila MAGI interacts with RASSF8 to regulate E-Cadherin-based adherens junctions in the developing eye Authors (5) Sophie Zaessinger Yanxiang Zhou Sarah J BrayNicolas Tapon Alexandre Djiane Development Published 15 March 2015 Crick labsNic TaponFull details Zyxin antagonizes the FERM protein expanded to couple F-actin and Yorkie-dependent organ growth Authors (5) Pedro GasparMaxine HolderBirgit Aerne Florence JanodyNicolas Tapon Current Biology Published 16 March 2015 Crick labsNic TaponFull details The Spectrin cytoskeleton regulates the Hippo signalling pathway Authors (6)Georgina FletcherAhmed Elbediwy Ichha Khanal Paulo S RibeiroNicolas Tapon Barry J Thompson EMBO Journal Published 1 April 2015 Crick labsBarry ThompsonNic TaponFull details 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Risk of reactivation of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and tuberculosis (TB) and complications of hepatitis C virus (HCV) following tocilizumab therapy: A systematic review to inform risk assessment in the COVID-19 era Authors (7) Cori Campbell Monique I Andersson M Azim Ansari Olivia Moswela Siraj A Misbah Paul Klenerman Philippa C Matthews Frontiers in Medicine Published 20 August 2021 Crick labsPhilippa MatthewsFull details
RASSF8-mediated transport of Echinoid via the exocyst promotes Drosophila wing elongation and epithelial ordering Authors (8) Eunice HY Chan Yanxiang ZhouBirgit AerneMaxine HolderAnne WestonDavid BarryLucy CollinsonNicolas Tapon Development Published 15 October 2021 Crick labs/ facilitiesNic TaponLight MicroscopyElectron MicroscopyFull details
Casein kinase 1 family proteins promote Slimb-dependent Expanded degradation Authors (6) Alexander D FulfordMaxine HolderDavid FrithBram SnijdersNicolas Tapon Paulo S Ribeiro eLife Published 30 September 2019 Crick labs/ facilitiesNic TaponProteomicsLight MicroscopyGenomics/Equipment ParkFull details
Hippo signalling during development Authors (2)John DavisNicolas Tapon Development Published 16 September 2019 Crick labsNic TaponFull details
ASPP proteins discriminate between PP1 catalytic subunits through their SH3 domain and the PP1 C-tail Authors (15) M Teresa BertranStephane Mouilleron Yanxiang Zhou Rakhi Bajaj Federico Uliana Ganesan Senthil Kumar[...]Nicola O'Reilly Matthias Gstaiger Rebecca Page Wolfgang PetiNicolas Tapon Nature Communications Published 15 February 2019 Crick labs/ facilitiesNic TaponStructural BiologyPeptide ChemistryProteomicsLight MicroscopyFermentationFull details
Stability and roughness of interfaces in mechanically regulated tissues Authors (2)John WilliamsonGuillaume Salbreux Physical Review Letters Published 7 December 2018 Crick labsNic TaponGuillaume SalbreuxFull details
Apical and basal matrix remodeling control epithelial morphogenesis Authors (9)Maria Carmen Diaz De La Loza RP Ray P Ganguly S AltJohn Davis A HoppeNicolas TaponGuillaume Salbreux BJ Thompson Developmental Cell Published 2 July 2018 Crick labsBarry ThompsonNic TaponGuillaume SalbreuxFull details
Mechanical strain regulates the Hippo pathway in Drosophila Authors (6)Georgina FletcherMaria Carmen Diaz De La Loza Nerea Borreguero MuñozMaxine HolderMario Aguilar Aragon Barry J Thompson Development Published 8 March 2018 Crick labs/ facilitiesBarry ThompsonNic TaponLight MicroscopyFull details
Upstairs, downstairs: spatial regulation of Hippo signalling Authors (3) Alexander FulfordNicolas Tapon Paulo S Ribeiro Current Opinion in Cell Biology Published 16 November 2017 Crick labsNic TaponFull details
Stable MOB1 interaction with Hippo/MST is not essential for development and tissue growth control Authors (15) Yavuz Kulaberoglu Kui LinMaxine Holder Zhongchao Gai Marta Gomez Belul Assefa Shifa[...] Ewan St John Smith Ivana BjedovNicolas Tapon Geng Wu Alexander Hergovich Nature Communications Published 25 September 2017 Crick labsNic TaponFull details
Meru couples planar cell polarity with apical-basal polarity during asymmetric cell division Authors (6) Jennifer J BanerjeeBirgit AerneMaxine Holder Simon Hauri Matthias GstaigerNicolas Tapon eLife Published 30 June 2017 Crick labs/ facilitiesNic TaponLight MicroscopyFull details
EpiTools: an open-source image analysis toolkit for quantifying epithelial growth dynamics Authors (8) Davide Heller Andreas Hoppe Simon Restrepo Lorenzo Gatti Alexander L TournierNicolas Tapon Konrad Basler Yanlan Mao Developmental Cell Published 11 January 2016 Crick labsNic TaponFull details
The Hippo pathway core cassette regulates asymmetric cell division Authors (6) Alyona Keder Noemí Rives-QuintoBirgit Aerne Maribel FrancoNicolas Tapon Ana Carmena Current Biology Published 2 November 2015 Crick labsNic TaponFull details
Differential control of Yorkie activity by LKB1/AMPK and the Hippo/Warts cascade in the central nervous system Authors (3) Ieva GailiteBirgit AerneNicolas Tapon Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Published 15 September 2015 Crick labs/ facilitiesNic TaponStructural BiologyFull details
Patterned anchorage to the apical extracellular matrix defines tissue shape in the developing appendages of Drosophila Authors (7) Robert P Ray Alexis Matamoro-Vidal Paulo S RibeiroNicolas Tapon David Houle Isaac Salazar-Ciudad Barry J Thompson Developmental Cell Published 10 August 2015 Crick labsBarry ThompsonNic TaponFull details
Hippo stabilises its adaptor Salvador by antagonising the HECT ubiquitin ligase Herc4 Authors (4)Birgit Aerne Ieva Gailite David SimsNicolas Tapon PLOS ONE Published 30 June 2015 Crick labsNic TaponFull details
The Hippo pathway promotes cell survival in response to chemical stress Authors (7) F Di Cara TM Maile BD Parsons A Magico S BasuNicolas Tapon K King-Jones Cell Death and Differentiation Published 13 March 2015 Crick labsNic TaponFull details
Drosophila MAGI interacts with RASSF8 to regulate E-Cadherin-based adherens junctions in the developing eye Authors (5) Sophie Zaessinger Yanxiang Zhou Sarah J BrayNicolas Tapon Alexandre Djiane Development Published 15 March 2015 Crick labsNic TaponFull details
Zyxin antagonizes the FERM protein expanded to couple F-actin and Yorkie-dependent organ growth Authors (5) Pedro GasparMaxine HolderBirgit Aerne Florence JanodyNicolas Tapon Current Biology Published 16 March 2015 Crick labsNic TaponFull details
The Spectrin cytoskeleton regulates the Hippo signalling pathway Authors (6)Georgina FletcherAhmed Elbediwy Ichha Khanal Paulo S RibeiroNicolas Tapon Barry J Thompson EMBO Journal Published 1 April 2015 Crick labsBarry ThompsonNic TaponFull details