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ReviewCancer genetics2011

Promiscuous partnerships in Ewing's sarcoma.

Savita Sankar, Stephen L Lessnick

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Review in Cancer genetics, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 134 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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134citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
15.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

134 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 251 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Germline Variation and Somatic Alterations in Ewing Sarcoma.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2027
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  4. Molecular Approaches to Diagnosis in Ewing Sarcoma: RT-PCR.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2027
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  5. Western Blot Analysis in Ewing Sarcoma.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2027
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  11. MCellular oncology (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2026
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  13. Ewing sarcoma of the great toe: a rare case report.International journal of surgery case reports · 2026
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  16. Advances in liquid biopsy for bone and soft-tissue sarcomas.International journal of clinical oncology · 2025
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  20. Cells · 2025
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74 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Savita SankarDepartment of Oncological Sciences, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Stephen L Lessnick
University of Utah · US

Funding

UTAH REGIONAL CANCER CENTERP30CA042014 · NCI · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI Jared P Rutter · 1986 to 2026
$72.6M
EWS/FLI AND ITS TARGETS IN EWING'S SARCOMAR01CA140394 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI LESSNICK, STEPHEN L. · 2010 to 2014
$1.5M
Antibody-based detection of translocations in pediatric cancerR21CA138295 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI LESSNICK, STEPHEN L. · 2009 to 2011
$656k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA042014NCI NIH HHS R01 CA140394NCI NIH HHS R21 CA138295
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ewing's sarcoma is a highly aggressive bone and soft tissue tumor of children and young adults. At the molecular genetic level Ewing's sarcoma is characterized by a balanced reciprocal translocation, t(11;22)(q24;q12), which encodes an oncogenic fusion protein and transcription factor EWS/FLI. This tumor-specific chimeric fusion retains the amino terminus of EWS, a member of the TET (TLS/EWS/TAF15) family of RNA-binding proteins, and the carboxy terminus of FLI, a member of the ETS family of transcription factors. In addition to EWS/FLI, variant translocation fusions belonging to the TET/ETS family have been identified in Ewing's sarcoma. These studies solidified the importance of TET/ETS fusions in the pathogenesis of Ewing's sarcoma and have since been used as diagnostic markers for the disease. EWS fusions with non-ETS transcription factor family members have been described in sarcomas that are clearly distinct from Ewing's sarcoma. However, in recent years there have been reports of rare fusions in "Ewing's-like tumors" that harbor the amino-terminus of EWS fused to the carboxy-terminal DNA or chromatin-interacting domains contributed by non-ETS proteins. This review aims to summarize the growing list of fusion oncogenes that characterize Ewing's sarcoma and Ewing's-like tumors and highlights important questions that need to be answered to further support the existing concept that Ewing's sarcoma is strictly a "TET/ETS" fusion-driven malignancy. Understanding the molecular mechanisms of action of the various different fusion oncogenes will provide better insights into the biology underlying this rare but important solid tumor.

Indexed as

Translocation, GeneticAdenosine TriphosphatasesBone NeoplasmsChromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneGene RearrangementHumansKruppel-Like Transcription FactorsNFATC Transcription FactorsOctamer Transcription Factor-3Oncogene Proteins, FusionProto-Oncogene Protein c-fli-1Repressor ProteinsRNA-Binding Protein EWSSarcoma, EwingSp3 Transcription FactorAdenosine TriphosphatasesChromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneEWS-FLI fusion proteinKruppel-Like Transcription FactorsNFATC2 protein, humanNFATC Transcription FactorsOctamer Transcription Factor-3Oncogene Proteins, FusionPATZ1 protein, humanPOU5F1 protein, humanProto-Oncogene Protein c-fli-1Repressor ProteinsRNA-Binding Protein EWSSMARCA5 protein, humanSP3 protein, humanSp3 Transcription Factor

Identifiers

PMID21872822
PMCPMC3164520
OpenAlexW2140334256

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