Advances in targeting 'undruggable'transcription factors with small molecules

MJ Henley, AN Koehler - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2021 - nature.com
Transcription factors (TFs) represent key biological players in diseases including cancer,
autoimmunity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. However, outside nuclear receptors …

Sarcoma treatment in the era of molecular medicine

TGP Grünewald, M Alonso, S Avnet… - EMBO molecular …, 2020 - embopress.org
Sarcomas are heterogeneous and clinically challenging soft tissue and bone cancers.
Although constituting only 1% of all human malignancies, sarcomas represent the second …

Rhabdomyosarcoma

SX Skapek, A Ferrari, AA Gupta, PJ Lupo… - Nature reviews disease …, 2019 - nature.com
Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common soft tissue sarcoma in children and
represents a high-grade neoplasm of skeletal myoblast-like cells. Decades of clinical and …

Multimodal analysis of cell-free DNA whole-genome sequencing for pediatric cancers with low mutational burden

P Peneder, AM Stütz, D Surdez, M Krumbholz… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Sequencing of cell-free DNA in the blood of cancer patients (liquid biopsy) provides
attractive opportunities for early diagnosis, assessment of treatment response, and minimally …

The SS18-SSX fusion oncoprotein hijacks BAF complex targeting and function to drive synovial sarcoma

MJ McBride, JL Pulice, HC Beird, DR Ingram… - Cancer cell, 2018 - cell.com
Synovial sarcoma (SS) is defined by the hallmark SS18-SSX fusion oncoprotein, which
renders BAF complexes aberrant in two manners: gain of SSX to the SS18 subunit and …

Single-cell analysis and functional characterization uncover the stem cell hierarchies and developmental origins of rhabdomyosarcoma

Y Wei, Q Qin, C Yan, MN Hayes, SP Garcia, H Xi, D Do… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is a common childhood cancer that shares features with
developing skeletal muscle. Yet, the conservation of cellular hierarchy with human muscle …

Current and future treatment strategies for rhabdomyosarcoma

C Chen, H Dorado Garcia, M Scheer… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common soft tissue sarcoma in children, and can be
subcategorized histologically and/or based on PAX-FOXO1 fusion gene status. Over the last …

Defining super-enhancer landscape in triple-negative breast cancer by multiomic profiling

H Huang, J Hu, A Maryam, Q Huang, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease, affecting over 3.5 million women worldwide, yet
the functional role of cis-regulatory elements including super-enhancers in different breast …

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 …

The screening, identification, design and clinical application of tumor-specific neoantigens for TCR-T cells

J Li, Z Xiao, D Wang, L Jia, S Nie, X Zeng, W Hu - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Recent advances in neoantigen research have accelerated the development of tumor
immunotherapies, including adoptive cell therapies (ACTs), cancer vaccines and antibody …