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Ewing sarcoma depends on C4orf48/NICOL, a NELL2 cofactor regulated by Hippo signaling
Panneerselvam Jayabal1, Xiuye Ma1, Yidong Chen2
1Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.
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Ewing sarcoma is a cancer of bone and soft tissue in children characterized by a chromosomal translocation that fuses EWS and an ETS family transcription factor, most commonly FLI1. EWS-FLI1 is the driver of this cancer. Using secretome proteomics and molecular cell biology, we found that FAT4, an atypical cadherin activating Hippo signaling, is a transcriptional target of EWS-FLI and is a dependency in Ewing sarcoma. We determined that FAT4 - Hippo signaling regulates the expression of a secreted polypeptide, C4orf48/NICOL. We demonstrate that Ewing sarcoma depends on C4orf48, which functions as a cofactor for NELL2, a cytokine we previously identified as a critical dependency in Ewing sarcoma. These results reveal C4orf48 as a targetable dependency that links FAT4 - Hippo signaling and NELL2 signaling in Ewing sarcoma.
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