Estrogen receptor alpha mutations, truncations, heterodimers, and therapies

GR Hancock, J Gertz, R Jeselsohn… - Endocrinology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Annual breast cancer (BCa) deaths have declined since its apex in 1989 concomitant with
widespread adoption of hormone therapies that target estrogen receptor alpha (ERα), the …

Oxidative phosphorylation is a metabolic vulnerability of endocrine therapy and palbociclib resistant metastatic breast cancers

R El-Botty, L Morriset, E Montaudon, Z Tariq… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Resistance to endocrine treatments and CDK4/6 inhibitors is considered a near-inevitability
in most patients with estrogen receptor positive breast cancers (ER+ BC). By genomic and …

ESR1 fusions and therapeutic resistance in metastatic breast cancer

Z Nagy, R Jeselsohn - Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Breast cancer is the most frequent female malignant tumor, and the leading cause of cancer
death in women worldwide. The most common subtype of breast cancer is hormone receptor …

[HTML][HTML] High FOXA1 levels induce ER transcriptional reprogramming, a pro-metastatic secretome, and metastasis in endocrine-resistant breast cancer

X Fu, R Pereira, CC Liu, C De Angelis, MJ Shea… - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Aberrant activation of the forkhead protein FOXA1 is observed in advanced hormone-related
cancers. However, the key mediators of high FOXA1 signaling remain elusive. We …

PKMYT1 Is a Marker of Treatment Response and a Therapeutic Target for CDK4/6 Inhibitor-Resistance in ER+ Breast Cancer

A Chen, BJ Kim, A Mitra, CT Vollert, JT Lei… - Molecular cancer …, 2024 - aacrjournals.org
Endocrine therapies (ET) with cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 (CDK4/6) inhibition are the
standard treatment for estrogen receptor-α-positive (ER+) breast cancer, however drug …

Clinical applications of next‐generation sequencing‐based ctDNA analyses in breast cancer: defining treatment targets and dynamic changes during disease …

EV Klocker, S Hasenleithner, R Bartsch… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The advancements in the detection and characterization of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA)
have revolutionized precision medicine and are likely to transform standard clinical practice …

Establishing conditions for the generation and maintenance of estrogen receptor-positive organoid models of breast cancer

MUJ Oliphant, D Akshinthala, SK Muthuswamy - Breast Cancer Research, 2024 - Springer
Patient-derived organoid models of estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer would
provide a much-needed tool to understand drug resistance and disease progression better …

Kinome reprogramming is a targetable vulnerability in ESR1 fusion-driven breast cancer

X Gou, BJ Kim, M Anurag, JT Lei, MN Young… - Cancer …, 2023 - aacrjournals.org
Transcriptionally active ESR1 fusions (ESR1-TAF) are a potent cause of breast cancer
endocrine therapy (ET) resistance. ESR1-TAFs are not directly druggable because the C …

ESR1 Fusions Invoke Breast Cancer Subtype-Dependent Enrichment of Ligand-Independent Oncogenic Signatures and Phenotypes

ME Yates, H Waltermire, K Mori, Z Li, Y Li… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Breast cancer is a leading cause of female mortality and despite advancements in
personalized therapeutics, metastatic disease largely remains incurable due to drug …

Clinical Implications and Treatment Strategies for ESR1 Fusions in Hormone Receptor-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Case Series

JO Brett, LL Ritterhouse, ET Newman, KE Irwin… - The …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer (HR+ MBC), endocrine resistance is
commonly due to genetic alterations of ESR1, the gene encoding estrogen receptor alpha …