Transcriptomics analysis revealed that TAZ regulates the proliferation of KIRC cells through mitophagy.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis experiment does not involve any human experimentation and the use of human tissue samples. All procedures conducted in this study using human data were in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. All experimental protocols in this study were approved by the Research Ethics Committee of The Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant numbers: 22076138), and the Tuoxin Project Foundation of First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (grant numbers: Yuan 2020054)."