Mechanisms, diagnosis and treatment of bone metastases

J Ban, V Fock, DNT Aryee, H Kovar - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Bone and bone marrow are among the most frequent metastatic sites of cancer. The
occurrence of bone metastasis is frequently associated with a dismal disease outcome. The …

An international working group consensus report for the prioritization of molecular biomarkers for Ewing sarcoma

DS Shulman, SB Whittle, D Surdez, KM Bailey… - NPJ precision …, 2022 - nature.com
The advent of dose intensified interval compressed therapy has improved event-free survival
for patients with localized Ewing sarcoma (EwS) to 78% at 5 years. However, nearly a …

TRIM8 modulates the EWS/FLI oncoprotein to promote survival in Ewing sarcoma

BKA Seong, NV Dharia, S Lin, KA Donovan, S Chong… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Fusion-transcription factors (fusion-TFs) represent a class of driver oncoproteins that are
difficult to therapeutically target. Recently, protein degradation has emerged as a strategy to …

The ETS transcription factor ETV6 constrains the transcriptional activity of EWS–FLI to promote Ewing sarcoma

DY Lu, JM Ellegast, KN Ross, CF Malone, S Lin… - Nature Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Transcription factors (TFs) are frequently mutated in cancer. Paediatric cancers exhibit few
mutations genome-wide but frequently harbour sentinel mutations that affect TFs, which …

ETV6 dependency in Ewing sarcoma by antagonism of EWS-FLI1-mediated enhancer activation

Y Gao, XY He, XS Wu, YH Huang, S Toneyan, T Ha… - Nature cell …, 2023 - nature.com
The EWS-FLI1 fusion oncoprotein deregulates transcription to initiate the paediatric cancer
Ewing sarcoma. Here we used a domain-focused CRISPR screen to implicate the …

VRK1 is a synthetic–lethal target in VRK2-deficient glioblastoma

JA Shields, SR Meier, M Bandi, EE Mulkearns-Hubert… - Cancer Research, 2022 - AACR
Synthetic lethality is a genetic interaction that results in cell death when two genetic
deficiencies co-occur but not when either deficiency occurs alone, which can be co-opted for …

Hypoxia-activated neuropeptide Y/Y5 receptor/RhoA pathway triggers chromosomal instability and bone metastasis in Ewing sarcoma

C Lu, A Mahajan, SH Hong, S Galli, S Zhu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Adverse prognosis in Ewing sarcoma (ES) is associated with the presence of metastases,
particularly in bone, tumor hypoxia and chromosomal instability (CIN). Yet, a mechanistic …

Full circle: a brief history of cohesin and the regulation of gene expression

JA Horsfield - The FEBS journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The cohesin complex has a range of crucial functions in the cell. Cohesin is essential for
mediating chromatid cohesion during mitosis, for repair of double‐strand DNA breaks, and …

Adverse prognostic impact of the loss of STAG2 protein expression in patients with newly diagnosed localised Ewing sarcoma: A report from the Children's Oncology …

DS Shulman, S Chen, D Hall, A Nag… - British Journal of …, 2022 - nature.com
Background Ewing sarcoma (EWS) is an aggressive sarcoma with no validated molecular
biomarkers. We aimed to determine the frequency of STAG2 protein loss by …

EWS/FLI mediated reprogramming of 3D chromatin promotes an altered transcriptional state in Ewing sarcoma

IA Showpnil, J Selich-Anderson, C Taslim… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Ewing sarcoma is a prototypical fusion transcription factor-associated pediatric cancer that
expresses EWS/FLI or a highly related FET/ETS chimera. EWS/FLI dysregulates …