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ArticleCancers2020

A Comparative Oncology Drug Discovery Pipeline to Identify and Validate New Treatments for Osteosarcoma.

Jason A Somarelli, Gabrielle Rupprecht, Erdem Altunel, Etienne M Flamant, Sneha Rao, Dharshan Sivaraj, Alexander L Lazarides, Sarah M Hoskinson, Maya U Sheth, Serene Cheng and 10 more

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Article in Cancers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jason A SomarelliDepartment of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1510-9343
Gabrielle RupprechtDepartment of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Erdem AltunelDepartment of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1821-0156
Etienne M FlamantDepartment of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1769-5307
Sneha RaoDepartment of Orthopaedics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Dharshan SivarajDepartment of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7453-0045
Alexander L LazaridesDepartment of Orthopaedics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0704-1529
Sarah M HoskinsonDepartment of Orthopaedics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Maya U ShethDepartment of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1466-8899
Serene ChengDepartment of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
So Young KimDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Kathryn E WareDepartment of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Anika AgarwalDepartment of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Mark M CullenDepartment of Orthopaedics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1322-4858
Laura E SelmicCollege of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
Jeffrey I EverittDuke Cancer Institute, Durham, NC 27710, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0273-6284
Shannon J McCallDuke Cancer Institute, Durham, NC 27710, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3957-061X
Cindy EwardSurgery Service, Triangle Veterinary Referral Hospital, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
William C EwardDuke Cancer Institute, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
David S HsuDepartment of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Duke Medical Center · USThe Ohio State University · USTriangle · US

Funding

Women's Cancer Research ProgramP30CA014236 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI JOHN N. NORTON · 1985 to 2026
$174.8M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014236
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundOsteosarcoma is a rare but aggressive bone cancer that occurs primarily in children. Like other rare cancers, treatment advances for osteosarcoma have stagnated, with little improvement in survival for the past several decades. Developing new treatments has been hampered by extensive genomic heterogeneity and limited access to patient samples to study the biology of this complex disease.

methodsTo overcome these barriers, we combined the power of comparative oncology with patient-derived models of cancer and high-throughput chemical screens in a cross-species drug discovery pipeline.

resultsCoupling in vitro high-throughput drug screens on low-passage and established cell lines with in vivo validation in patient-derived xenografts we identify the proteasome and CRM1 nuclear export pathways as therapeutic sensitivities in osteosarcoma, with dual inhibition of these pathways inducing synergistic cytotoxicity.

conclusionsThese collective efforts provide an experimental framework and set of new tools for osteosarcoma and other rare cancers to identify and study new therapeutic vulnerabilities.

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comparative oncologyCRM1patient-derived xenograftsprecision medicineproteasomesarcoma

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PMID33187254
PMCPMC7696249
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