Current state of immunotherapy and mechanisms of immune evasion in ewing sarcoma and osteosarcoma

V Evdokimova, H Gassmann, L Radvanyi… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Pediatric sarcomas, including Ewing sarcoma and osteosarcoma, were
first to be treated with an anticancer vaccine 100 years ago. This review moves on from a …

DNMT and HDAC inhibition induces immunogenic neoantigens from human endogenous retroviral element-derived transcripts

A Goyal, J Bauer, J Hey, DN Papageorgiou… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Immunotherapies targeting cancer-specific neoantigens have revolutionized the treatment of
cancer patients. Recent evidence suggests that epigenetic therapies synergize with …

Shining a light on the dark proteome: Non‐canonical open reading frames and their encoded miniproteins as a new frontier in cancer biology

Z Posner, I Yannuzzi, JR Prensner - Protein Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the decades following the discovery that genes encode proteins, scientists have tried to
exhaustively and comprehensively characterize the human genome. Recent advances in …

Microproteins encoded by noncanonical ORFs are a major source of tumor-specific antigens in a liver cancer patient meta-cohort

ME Camarena, P Theunissen, M Ruiz, J Ruiz-Orera… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The expression of tumor-specific antigens during cancer progression can trigger an immune
response against the tumor. Here, we investigate if microproteins encoded by noncanonical …

Open-label, multicenter, phase I/II, first-in-human trial of TK216: A first-generation EWS:: FLI1 Fusion protein antagonist in Ewing sarcoma

PA Meyers, N Federman, N Daw… - Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Ewing Sarcoma (ES), a rare cancer with a pathognomonic translocation resulting
in the Ewing sarcoma gene (EWS):: FLI1 oncoprotein, has a poor prognosis in the …

Chimeric protein EWS::FLI1 drives cell proliferation in Ewing Sarcoma via aberrant expression of KCNN1/SK1 and dysregulation of calcium signaling

M Dupuy, M Gueguinou, A Postec, R Brion, R Tesfaye… - Oncogene, 2024 - nature.com
Ewing sarcoma (ES) is characterized by EWS:: FLI1 or EWS:: ERG fusion proteins. Knowing
that ion channels are involved in tumorigenesis, this work aimed to study the involvement of …

Systematic multi-omics cell line profiling uncovers principles of Ewing sarcoma fusion oncogene-mediated gene regulation

MF Orth, D Surdez, T Faehling, AC Ehlers, A Marchetto… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Ewing sarcoma (EwS) is characterized by EWSR1-ETS fusion transcription factors
converting polymorphic GGAA microsatellites (mSats) into potent neo-enhancers. Although …

Desmoplastic small round cell tumor: From genomics to targets, potential paths to future therapeutics

JW Magrath, M Espinosa-Cotton… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor (DSRCT) is a highly aggressive pediatric cancer
caused by a reciprocal translocation between chromosomes 11 and 22, leading to the …

Ewing sarcoma from molecular biology to the clinic

M Dupuy, F Lamoureux, M Mullard, A Postec… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In Europe, with an incidence of 7.5 cases per million, Ewing sarcoma (ES) is the second
most common primary malignant bone tumor in children, adolescents and young adults …

Regulation of EWSR1-FLI1 function by post-transcriptional and post-translational modifications

L Yu, IJ Davis, P Liu - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Ewing sarcoma is a malignant pediatric bone cancer currently lacking
targeted therapy. In the US there are~ 200 patients diagnosed each year and relapse is …