The SWI/SNF complex in neural crest cell development and disease

DM Fountain, T Sauka-Spengler - Annual Review of Genomics …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
While the neural crest cell population gives rise to an extraordinary array of derivatives,
including elements of the craniofacial skeleton, skin pigmentation, and peripheral nervous …

Clear cell sarcoma: state-of-the art and perspectives

L Wetterwald, N Riggi, A Kyriazoglou… - Expert Review of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Clear cell sarcoma (CCS) is an ultrarare soft tissue sarcoma (STS) with a poor
prognosis due to its propensity to metastasize and its low chemosensitivity. The standard …

DrugMap: A quantitative pan-cancer analysis of cysteine ligandability

M Takahashi, HB Chong, S Zhang, TY Yang… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Cysteine-focused chemical proteomic platforms have accelerated the clinical development
of covalent inhibitors for a wide range of targets in cancer. However, how different oncogenic …

Inflammatory and nested testicular sex cord tumor: a novel neoplasm with aggressive clinical behavior and frequent EWSR1:: ATF1 gene fusions

AM Acosta, JA Bridge, PS Dal Cin… - The American Journal …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
A subset of malignant testicular sex cord tumors (TSCTs), heretofore interpreted as Sertoli
cell tumors, not otherwise specified, exhibits distinctive morphologic features that partially …

Large-scale discovery of chromatin dysregulation induced by oncofusions and other protein-coding variants

M Frenkel, JE Corban, MLA Hujoel, Z Morris… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Population-scale databases have expanded to millions of protein-coding variants, yet insight
into their mechanistic consequences has lagged. Here we present PROD-ATAC, a high …

CIC-DUX4 chromatin profiling reveals new epigenetic dependencies and actionable therapeutic targets in CIC-rearranged sarcomas

A Bakaric, L Cironi, V Praz, R Sanalkumar, LC Broye… - Cancers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary CIC-DUX4-rearranged sarcoma (CDS) is a rare and aggressive soft tissue
tumor predominantly affecting young adults for which the only oncogenic driver is the CIC …

Biological and therapeutic insights from animal modeling of fusion-driven pediatric soft tissue sarcomas

JP Kucinski, D Calderon… - Disease Models & …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Survival for children with cancer has primarily improved over the past decades due to
refinements in surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Although these general therapies are …

EWSR1:: ATF1 Orchestrates the Clear Cell Sarcoma Transcriptome in Human Tumors and a Mouse Genetic Model

BB Ozenberger, L Li, ER Wilson, AJ Lazar, JJ Barrott… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Many cancers, especially those most common in adolescents and young
adults, are initiated by a single change in the DNA sequence of a gene. The particular …

Epigenetic determinants of fusion-driven sarcomas: paradigms and challenges

BZ Stanton, S Pomella - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
We describe exciting recent advances in fusion-driven sarcoma etiology, from an
epigenetics perspective. By exploring the current state of the field, we identify and describe …

MS0621, a novel small-molecule modulator of Ewing sarcoma chromatin accessibility, interacts with an RNA-associated macromolecular complex and influences RNA …

T Vital, A Wali, KV Butler, Y Xiong, JP Foster… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Ewing sarcoma is a cancer of children and young adults characterized by the critical
translocation-associated fusion oncoprotein EWSR1:: FLI1. EWSR1:: FLI1 targets …