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iScience: SARS-CoV-2 infection enhances mitochondrial PTP complex activity to perturb cardiac energetics (Aune)

January 19, 2022

Karthik Ramachandran110 Soumya Maity110  Alagar R.Muthukumar2  Soundarya Kandala1  Dhanendra Tomar3  Tarek Mohamed Abd El-Aziz49  Cristel Allen1  Yuyang Sun5  Manigandan Venkatesan1  Travis  R.Madaris1  Kevin Chiem6  RachelTruitt7  Neelanjan Vishnu1  G …


Urologic Oncology: Prevalence of pathogenic germline cancer risk variants in testicular cancer patients: Identifying high risk groups (Tomlinson)

January 19, 2022

ChethanRamamurthyM.D.a‡Amin H.NassarM.D.bc‡SarahAbou AlaiwiM.D.bcElioAdibM.D.bcElie W.AklM.D.cShanYangPh.D.dEdward D.EsplinM.D., Ph.D.dMichael A.LissM.D.aGail E.TomlinsonM.D.eGuru P.SonpavdeM.D.b Highlights • Testicular cancer patients are at risk for …


iScience: PEGylated talazoparib enhances therapeutic window of its combination with temozolomide in Ewing sarcoma (Kurmasheva & Houghton Labs)

January 18, 2022

Vanessa del Pozo Andrew J.Robles Shaun D.Fontaine QianqianLiu Joel E.Michalek Peter J.Houghton Raushan T.Kurmasheva Highlights Nanoparticle-formulated drugs minimize drug-induced toxicity PEG∼TLZ enhances in vivo activity of TMZ in pediatric tumor xeno …


Biomolecular NMR Assignments: The 1H, 15N and 13C resonance assignments of the low-complexity domain from the oncogenic fusion protein EWS-FLI1 (Libich Lab)

January 12, 2022

Courtney N. Johnson, Xiaoping Xu, Stephen P. Holloway & David S. Libich Abstract The RNA-binding protein EWS is a multifunctional protein with roles in the regulation of transcription and RNA splicing. It is one of the FET (FUS, EWS, and TAF15) fam …


Cellular Oncology: Single-cell RNA profiling identifies diverse cellular responses to EWSR1/FLI1 down regulation in Ewing sarcoma cells (Houghton, Chen, Kitagawa, Ignatius)

January 12, 2022

Roxane Khoogar, Fuyang Li, Yidong Chen, Myron Ignatius, Elizabeth R. Lawlor, Katsumi Kitagawa, Tim H.-M. Huang, Doris A. Phelps & Peter J. Houghton Background The EWSR1/FLI1 gene fusion is the most common rearrangement leading to cell transformatio …


Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer, contribute to the understanding of its causes, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Through the discovery, development, and dissemination of new scientific knowledge, Greehey CCRI strives to have a national and global impact on childhood cancer. Our mission consists of three key areas: research, clinical, and education.

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Genes & Cancer: EZH2 suppresses endogenous retroviruses and an interferon response in cancers (Shiio Lab)

January 10, 2022

Panneerselvam Jayabal1, Xiuye Ma1 and Yuzuru Shiio1,2,3 ABSTRACT Ewing sarcoma is an aggressive cancer of the bone and soft tissue in children. It is characterized by the chromosomal translocation between EWS and an Ets family transcription factor, mos …


PMC: The Role of Hedgehog Pathway in Uterine Leiomyosarcoma (Houghton Lab)

January 7, 2022

Natalia Garcia,1 Mara Ulin,2 Ayman Al-Hendy,3 and Qiwei Yang3 DESCRIPTION The uterine Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) represents 3%-7% of all uterine cancers. This rare tumor has an annual incidence of 0.8 per 100,00 women. Unfortunately, LMS is well known for it …


Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer, contribute to the understanding of its causes, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Through the discovery, development, and dissemination of new scientific knowledge, Greehey CCRI strives to have a national and global impact on childhood cancer. Our mission consists of three key areas: research, clinical, and education.

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MDPI: Altertoxin II, a Highly Effective and Specific Compound against Ewing Sarcoma (Houghton Lab)

January 6, 2022

Andrew J. Robles Wentao Dai Saikat Haldar Hongyan Ma Victoria M. Anderson Ross D. Overacker April L. Risinger, Sandra Loesgen Peter J. Houghton Robert H. Cichewicz Susan L. Mooberry Simple Summary Ewing sarcoma is a cancer of the bone and soft tissues …


Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer, contribute to the understanding of its causes, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Through the discovery, development, and dissemination of new scientific knowledge, Greehey CCRI strives to have a national and global impact on childhood cancer. Our mission consists of three key areas: research, clinical, and education.

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ASM Journals: GRWD1-WDR5-MLL2 Epigenetic Complex Mediates H3K4me3 Mark and Is Essential for Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus-Induced Cellular Transformation (Lai)

January 5, 2022

Shan Wei, Songjian Lu, Lifan Liang, Xian Wang, Wan Li, Tingting Li, Luping Chen, , Enguo Ju, Xinquan Zhang, Zhao Lai, Yufei Huang, Xinghua Lu, Shou-Jiang Gao  ABSTRACT Infection by Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is causally associated w …


Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer, contribute to the understanding of its causes, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Through the discovery, development, and dissemination of new scientific knowledge, Greehey CCRI strives to have a national and global impact on childhood cancer. Our mission consists of three key areas: research, clinical, and education.

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Briefings in Bioinformatics: Deep learning tackles single-cell analysis—a survey of deep learning for scRNA-seq analysis (Chen Lab)

January 4, 2022

        Mario Flores, Zhentao Liu, Tinghe Zhang, Md Musaddaqui Hasib, Yu-Chiao Chiu, Zhenqing Ye, Karla Paniagua, Sumin Jo, Jianqiu Zhang, Shou-Jiang Gao, Yu-Fang Jin, Yidong Chen, Yufei Huang Abstract Since its selection as the met …


Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer, contribute to the understanding of its causes, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Through the discovery, development, and dissemination of new scientific knowledge, Greehey CCRI strives to have a national and global impact on childhood cancer. Our mission consists of three key areas: research, clinical, and education.

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