YAP1 and osteoarthritis: Deng et al. (2018) showed in a mouse model of experimental osteoarthritis that articular cartilage integrity can be preserved through YAP activation via transgenic overexpression or via deletion of it’s upstream inhibitory kinase MST1/2, whereas knockdown of YAP in chondrocytes promoted cartilage degradation. In contrast, Gong et al. (2019) found that suppression of YAP activity with siRNA prevents cartilage degradation and ameliorates osteoarthritis development in a mouse model.