'Jumonji' protein key to Ewing's sarcoma rampage

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in the journal Oncogene pinpoints a protein that may be essential to Ewing's sarcoma metastasis -- when researchers knocked down the protein KDM3A in Ewing's sarcoma tumor cells, one of a family known as Jumonji proteins, they also inhibited the cancer's metastatic ability.
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news