213). Recently, the oncogenic wild-type p53-induced phosphatase 1 (WIP1) has been described to cooperate with SHH to enhance tumour formation in SHH-dependent medulloblastoma (Ref. 214). Our group showed that WIP1 phosphatase activity enhances GLI1 function in melanoma by increasing GLI1 nuclear localisation, protein stability and transcriptional activity, whereas its inhibition reduces self-renewal and tumourigenicity of melanoma cells with activated HH signalling (Ref. 215). This evidence concerns the gene GLI1 and melanoma.