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Control of Tissue Growth and Cell Transformation by the Salvador/Warts/Hippo Pathway Xiaomeng Zhang1,2, Felix A. Grusche1,2, Kieran F. Harvey1,2* 1 Cell Growth and Proliferation Laboratory, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, and Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Abstract The Salvador-Warts-Hippo (SWH) pathway is an important regulator of tissue growth that is frequently subverted in human cancer. The key oncoprotein of the SWH pathway is the transcriptional co-activator, Yes-associated protein (YAP). YAP promotes tissue growth and transformation of cultured cells by interacting with transcriptional regulatory proteins via its WW domains, or, in the case of the TEAD1-4 transcription factors, an N-terminal binding domain. YAP possesses a putative transactivation domain in its C-terminus that is necessary to stimulate transcription factors in vitro, but its requirement for YAP function has not been investigated in detail. Interestingly, whilst the WW domains and TEAD-binding domain are highly conserved in the Drosophila melanogaster YAP orthologue, Yorkie, the majority of the C-terminal region of YAP is not present in Yorkie. To investigate this apparent conundrum, we assessed the functional roles of the YAP and Yorkie C-termini. We found that these regions were not required for Yorkie’s ability to drive tissue growth in vivo, or YAP’s ability to promote anchorage-independent growth or resistance to contact inhibition. However, the YAP transactivation domain was required for YAP’s ability to induce cell migration and invasion. Moreover, a role for the YAP transactivation domain in cell transformation was uncovered when the YAP WW domains were mutated together with