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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Biol. 2021 Jan 8;475:205–221. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2020.12.018

Table 1:

Summary of recurrent YAP1 and TAZ fusions identified in human cancers.

Fusion Tumor type Retained YAP1/TAZ amino acids Retained C-terminal fusion partner amino acids References
YAP1-FAM118B ST-Ependymoma; NF2-wild type Meningioma aa1-aa388 (exons 1–7) aa1-aa351 (entire sequence) (Pajtler et al. 2015; Schieffer et al. 2020)
YAP1-KMT2A Sclerosing Epithelioid Fibrosarcoma; Fibromyxoid Sarcoma 1) aa1-aa267 (exons 1–4)
2) aa1-aa328 (exons 1–5)
1) aa1112-aa3969 (exons 5–36)
2) aa1053-aa3969 (exons 4–36)
(Kao et al. 2020; Puls et al. 2020)
YAP1-LMO1 NF2-wild type Meningioma aa1-aa267(exons 1–4) aa9-aa156 (exons 2–4) (Sievers et al. 2020)
YAP1-MAMLD1 ST-Ependymoma 1) aa1-aa328 (exons 1–5)
2) aa1-aa344 (exons 1–6)
1) aa58-aa774 (exons 3–7)
2) aa33-aa774 (exons 2–7)
(Pajtler et al. 2015)
YAP1-MAML2 Head and Neck Carcinoma; Nasopharyngeal Carcinomas; NF2-wild type Meningioma; Ovarian Carcinoma; Poroma/Porocarcinoma; Retiform and Composite Hemangioendothelioma 1) aa1-aa107 (exon 1)
2) aa1-aa328 (exons 1–5)
1) aa172-aa1152 (exons 2–5)
2) aa172-aa1152 (exons 2–5)
(Picco et al. 2019; Sekine et al. 2019; Antonescu et al. 2020; Sievers et al. 2020)
YAP1-NUTM1 Poroma/Porocarcinoma 1) aa1-aa229 (exons 1–3)
2) aa1-aa267 (exons 1–4)
1) aa6-aa1132 (exons 2–7)
2) aa6-aa1132 (exons 2–7)
(Sekine et al. 2019)
YAP1-PYGO1 NF2-wild type Meningioma aa1-aa267(exons 1–4) aa17-aa419(exons 2–3) (Sievers et al. 2020)
YAP1-SS18 Cervical Squamous Cell Carcinoma; Endocervical Adenocarcinoma aa1-aa107 (exon 1) aa1-aa418 (entire sequence) (Szulzewsky et al. 2020)
YAP1-TFE3 Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma aa1-aa107 (exon 1) aa179-aa575 (exons 4–10) (Antonescu et al. 2013)
TAZ-CAMTA1 Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma 1) exons 1–2
2) exons 1–4
1) exons 9–23
2) exons 8/9–23
(Errani et al. 2011; Tanas et al. 2011)