Exposure of TC-71 Ewing sarcoma cells to maltonis, at the dose of 3 μM for 48 hours, modified the transcript levels of some genes involved in the control of cell cycle progression: we monitored up-regulation of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors (CDKI) CDKN2B (p15) and CDKN1A (p21), and down-regulation of cyclin-dependent kinase 6 (CDK6) and cyclin-dependent kinase 8 (CDK8) mRNA levels (Figure 2A). This evidence concerns the gene CDK8 and Ewing sarcoma.