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Sasu BJ, Opiteck GJ, Gopalakrishnan S, Kaimal V, Furmanak T, Huang D, Goswami A, He Y, Chen J, Nguyen A, Balakumaran A, Shah NN, Hamadani M, Bone KM, Prashad S, Bowen MA, Pertel T, Embree HD, Gidwani SG, Chang D, Moore A, Leonard M, Amado RG. Detection of chromosomal alteration after infusion of gene-edited allogeneic CAR T cells. Mol Ther 2023; 31:676-685. [PMID: 36518079 PMCID: PMC10014221 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2022.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2022] [Revised: 11/18/2022] [Accepted: 12/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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A chromosome 14 inversion was found in a patient who developed bone marrow aplasia following treatment with allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) Tcells containing gene edits made with transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALEN). TALEN editing sites were not involved at either breakpoint. Recombination signal sequences (RSSs) were found suggesting recombination-activating gene (RAG)-mediated activity. The inversion represented a dominant clone detected in the context of decreasing absolute CAR Tcell and overall lymphocyte counts. The inversion was not associated with clinical consequences and wasnot detected in the drug product administered to this patient or in any drug product used in this or other trials using the same manufacturing processes. Neither was the inversion detected in this patient at earlier time points or in any other patient enrolled in this or other trials treated with this or other product lots. This case illustrates that spontaneous, possibly RAG-mediated, recombination events unrelated to gene editing can occur in adoptive cell therapy studies, emphasizes the need for ruling out off-target gene editing sites, and illustrates that other processes, such as spontaneous V(D)J recombination, can lead to chromosomal alterations in infused cells independent of gene editing.
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- Barbra J Sasu
- Allogene Therapeutics, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Allogene Therapeutics, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Allogene Therapeutics, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Allogene Therapeutics, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Allogene Therapeutics, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Allogene Therapeutics, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Allogene Therapeutics, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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- Allogene Therapeutics, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Allogene Therapeutics, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Allogene Therapeutics, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Allogene Therapeutics, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Allogene Therapeutics, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Allogene Therapeutics, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA.
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Deiss TC, Breaux B, Ott JA, Daniel RA, Chen PL, Castro CD, Ohta Y, Flajnik MF, Criscitiello MF. Ancient Use of Ig Variable Domains Contributes Significantly to the TCRδ Repertoire. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2019; 203:1265-1275. [PMID: 31341077 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1900369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2019] [Accepted: 07/01/2019] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The loci encoding B and T cell Ag receptors are generally distinct in commonly studied mammals, with each receptor's gene segments limited to intralocus, cis chromosomal rearrangements. The nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) represents the oldest vertebrate class, the cartilaginous fish, with adaptive immunity provided via Ig and TCR lineages, and is one species among a growing number of taxa employing Ig-TCRδ rearrangements that blend these distinct lineages. Analysis of the nurse shark Ig-TCRδ repertoire found that these rearrangements possess CDR3 characteristics highly similar to canonical TCRδ rearrangements. Furthermore, the Ig-TCRδ rearrangements are expressed with TCRγ, canonically found in the TCRδ heterodimer. We also quantified BCR and TCR transcripts in the thymus for BCR (IgHV-IgHC), chimeric (IgHV-TCRδC), and canonical (TCRδV-TCRδC) transcripts, finding equivalent expression levels in both thymus and spleen. We also characterized the nurse shark TCRαδ locus with a targeted bacterial artifical chromosome sequencing approach and found that the TCRδ locus houses a complex of V segments from multiple lineages. An IgH-like V segment, nestled within the nurse shark TCRδ translocus, grouped with IgHV-like rearrangements we found expressed with TCRδ (but not IgH) rearrangements in our phylogenetic analysis. This distinct lineage of TCRδ-associated IgH-like V segments was termed "TAILVs." Our data illustrate a dynamic TCRδ repertoire employing TCRδVs, NARTCRVs, bona fide trans-rearrangements from shark IgH clusters, and a novel lineage in the TCRδ-associated Ig-like V segments.
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- Thaddeus C Deiss
- Comparative Immunogenetics Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843
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- Comparative Immunogenetics Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843
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- Comparative Immunogenetics Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843
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- Comparative Immunogenetics Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843
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- Comparative Immunogenetics Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, MD 21201; and
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, MD 21201; and
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, MD 21201; and
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- Comparative Immunogenetics Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843; .,Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843
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Rahbarizadeh F, Ahmadvand D, Moghimi S. CAR T-cell bioengineering: Single variable domain of heavy chain antibody targeted CARs. Adv Drug Deliv Rev 2019; 141:41-46. [PMID: 31004624 DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2019.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2019] [Revised: 04/05/2019] [Accepted: 04/15/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Redirecting the recognition specificity of T lymphocytes to designated tumour cell surface antigens by transferring chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) genes is becoming an effective strategy to combat cancer. Today, CAR T-cell therapy has proven successful in the treatment of haematological malignancies and the first CD19 CAR T-cell products has already entered the market. This success is expanding CAR design for broader malignancies including solid tumours. Nevertheless, CARs such as those built on antigen-specific single chain antibody variable fragment (scFv) may induce some adverse effects. Here, we briefly review CAR T-cell bioengineering and discuss selected important initiatives for improved T-cell reprogramming, function and safety. In this respect, we further elaborate on unconventional CARs structured on single variable domain of heavy chain (VHH) antibodies (single-domain antibodies) as an alternative to scFv, because of their interesting immunological and physicochemical characteristics and unique structure, which shows a high degree of homology with human VH3 gene family.
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Satta N, Pagano S, Montecucco F, Gencer B, Mach F, Kaiser L, Calmy A, Vuilleumier N. Anti-apolipoprotein A-1 autoantibodies are associated with immunodeficiency and systemic inflammation in HIV patients. J Infect 2017; 76:186-195. [PMID: 29198606 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2017.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2017] [Revised: 11/23/2017] [Accepted: 11/26/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To determine the existence of autoantibodies against apolipoprotein A-1 (anti-apoA-1 IgG) in HIV patients and explore their association with biological features of HIV infection and different inflammatory biomarkers. We also evaluated their impact on CD4+ lymphocytes survival. METHODS Anti-apoA-1 IgG plasma levels were assessed by ELISA in 237 HIV positive patients from a national prospective cohort with no current lipid-lowering therapy. RESULTS 58% of patients were found positive for anti-apoA-1 IgG and were associated with lower CD4+ counts, but higher viremia and systemic inflammation. Logistic regression analyses indicated that high anti-apoA-1 IgG levels were associated with a 16-fold increased risk of displaying low CD4+ levels, independent of HIV RNA levels and treatment (adjusted Odds ratio [OR]:16.1, 95% Confidence Interval [95%CI]:1.80-143.6; p = 0.01), and a 6-fold increased risk of having a detectable viremia, independent of antiretroviral treatment (OR:5.47; 95% CI:1.63-18.36; p = 0.006). In vitro, anti-apoA-1 IgG induced dose and time-dependent CD4+ apoptosis that was increased by exposure to HIV RNA. CONCLUSIONS In HIV patients, anti-apoA-1 IgG levels are associated with low CD4+ counts, high viremia and a pro-inflammatory systemic profile. Anti-apoA-1 IgG can promote CD4+ lymphocyte apoptosis via undefined pathways.
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- Nathalie Satta
- Division of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Genetics and Laboratory Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, 4 rue Gabrielle Perret-Gentil, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland; Clinical Chemistry and Proteomic Group, Department of Human Protein Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
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- Division of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Genetics and Laboratory Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, 4 rue Gabrielle Perret-Gentil, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland; Clinical Chemistry and Proteomic Group, Department of Human Protein Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- First Medical Clinic, Laboratory of Phagocyte Physiopathology and Inflammation, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, 6 viale Benedetto XV 16132 Genoa, Italy; IRCCS AOU San Martino - IST, Genova, largo Benzi 10 16143 Genoa, Italy; Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Research (CEBR), University of Genoa, 9 viale Benedetto XV, 16132 Genoa, Italy
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- Division of Cardiology, Foundation for Medical Researches, Department of Medical Specialties, University of Geneva, 64 Avenue de la Roseraie, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Cardiology, Foundation for Medical Researches, Department of Medical Specialties, University of Geneva, 64 Avenue de la Roseraie, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and of Laboratory Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and of Laboratory Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Genetics and Laboratory Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, 4 rue Gabrielle Perret-Gentil, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland; Clinical Chemistry and Proteomic Group, Department of Human Protein Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Identification of functional nucleotide and haplotype variants in the promoter of the CEBPE gene. J Hum Genet 2013; 58:600-3. [PMID: 23719191 DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2013.62] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2013] [Revised: 05/09/2013] [Accepted: 05/11/2013] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The current study examined the promoter activity of an association signal in a 5'-upstream region of the gene encoding CCAAT/enhancer binding protein epsilon (CEBPE) identified from a recent genome-wide association study (GWAS) for complex acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). This follow-up study first compared the activity of reporter constructs with three haplotypes estimated with the rs2239633 and its proximity nucleotide variants in strong linkage. The most frequent haplotype was CTTTTGT (H1), and the second most frequent haplotype consisted of entirely opposite alleles to H1 (TCGCACC, H2). Their luciferase activity revealed the strongest expression with H2 and the weakest with H1. Subsequent analysis revealed that different luciferase activity was found by the single-nucleotide substitution at rs2239632 and rs2239633 (P<0.05). Especially, the difference in luciferase activity between two alleles of rs2239632 corresponded to the difference between H1 and H2. We concluded that rs2239632 could regulate the expression of the CEBPE gene. We suggest a hypothesis that its risk allele (G) might increase the gene product and lead to leukemogenesis. As a result, a person with the allele or the corresponding haplotype might have increased susceptibility to ALL. Further research is warranted to investigate this hypothesis and the underlying mechanisms.
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Chapiro E, Radford-Weiss I, Cung HA, Dastugue N, Nadal N, Taviaux S, Barin C, Struski S, Talmant P, Vandenberghe P, Mozziconacci MJ, Tigaud I, Lefebvre C, Penther D, Bastard C, Lippert E, Mugneret F, Romana S, Bernard OA, Harrison CJ, Russell LJ, Nguyen-Khac F. Chromosomal translocations involving the IGH@ locus in B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia: 29 new cases and a review of the literature. Cancer Genet 2013; 206:162-73. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cancergen.2013.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2013] [Revised: 04/23/2013] [Accepted: 04/23/2013] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Bowen S, Wangsa D, Ried T, Livak F, Hodes RJ. Concurrent V(D)J recombination and DNA end instability increase interchromosomal trans-rearrangements in ATM-deficient thymocytes. Nucleic Acids Res 2013; 41:4535-48. [PMID: 23470994 PMCID: PMC3632137 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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During the CD4−CD8− (DN) stage of T-cell development, RAG-dependent DNA breaks and V(D)J recombination occur at three T-cell receptor (TCR) loci: TCRβ, TCRγ and TCRδ. During this stage, abnormal trans-rearrangements also take place between TCR loci, occurring at increased frequency in absence of the DNA damage response mediator ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM). Here, we use this model of physiologic trans-rearrangement to study factors that predispose to rearrangement and the role of ATM in preventing chromosomal translocations. The frequency of DN thymocytes with DNA damage foci at multiple TCR loci simultaneously is increased 2- to 3-fold in the absence of ATM. However, trans-rearrangement is increased 10 000- to 100 000-fold, indicating that ATM function extends beyond timely resolution of DNA breaks. RAG-mediated synaptic complex formation occurs between recombination signal sequences with unequal 12 and 23 base spacer sequences (12/23 rule). TCR trans-rearrangements violate this rule, as we observed similar frequencies of 12/23 and aberrant 12/12 or 23/23 recombination products. This suggests that trans-rearrangements are not the result of trans-synaptic complex formation, but they are instead because of unstable cis synaptic complexes that form simultaneously at distinct TCR loci. Thus, ATM suppresses trans-rearrangement primarily through stabilization of DNA breaks at TCR loci.
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- Steven Bowen
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Graduate Program in Life Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
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MicroRNA profiling of Epstein-Barr virus-associated NK/T-cell lymphomas by deep sequencing. PLoS One 2012; 7:e42193. [PMID: 22870299 PMCID: PMC3411711 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2010] [Accepted: 07/04/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is an oncogenic human Herpes virus involved in the pathogenesis of nasal NK/T-cell lymphoma. EBV encodes microRNAs (miRNAs) and induces changes in the host cellular miRNA profile. MiRNAs are short non-coding RNAs of about 19–25 nt length that regulate gene expression by post-transcriptional mechanisms and are frequently deregulated in human malignancies including cancer. The microRNA profiles of EBV-positive NK/T-cell lymphoma, non-infected T-cell lymphoma and normal thymus were established by deep sequencing of small RNA libraries. The comparison of the EBV-positive NK/T-cell vs. EBV-negative T-cell lymphoma revealed 15 up- und 16 down-regulated miRNAs. In contrast, the majority of miRNAs was repressed in the lymphomas compared to normal tissue. We also identified 10 novel miRNAs from known precursors and two so far unknown miRNAs. The sequencing results were confirmed for selected miRNAs by quantitative Real-Time PCR (qRT-PCR). We show that the proinflammatory cytokine interleukin 1 alpha (IL1A) is a target for miR-142-3p and the oncogenic BCL6 for miR-205. MiR-142-3p is down-regulated in the EBV-positive vs. EBV-negative lymphomas. MiR-205 was undetectable in EBV-negative lymphoma and strongly down-regulated in EBV-positive NK/T-cell lymphoma as compared to thymus. The targets were confirmed by reporter assays and by down-regulation of the proteins by ectopic expression of the cognate miRNAs. Taken together, our findings demonstrate the relevance of deregulated miRNAs for the post-transcriptional gene regulation in nasal NK/T-cell lymphomas.
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Criscitiello MF, Ohta Y, Saltis M, McKinney EC, Flajnik MF. Evolutionarily conserved TCR binding sites, identification of T cells in primary lymphoid tissues, and surprising trans-rearrangements in nurse shark. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2010; 184:6950-60. [PMID: 20488795 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0902774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Cartilaginous fish are the oldest animals that generate RAG-based Ag receptor diversity. We have analyzed the genes and expressed transcripts of the four TCR chains for the first time in a cartilaginous fish, the nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum). Northern blotting found TCR mRNA expression predominantly in lymphoid and mucosal tissues. Southern blotting suggested translocon-type loci encoding all four chains. Based on diversity of V and J segments, the expressed combinatorial diversity for gamma is similar to that of human, alpha and beta may be slightly lower, and delta diversity is the highest of any organism studied to date. Nurse shark TCRdelta have long CDR3 loops compared with the other three chains, creating binding site topologies comparable to those of mammalian TCR in basic paratope structure; additionally, nurse shark TCRdelta CDR3 are more similar to IgH CDR3 in length and heterogeneity than to other TCR chains. Most interestingly, several cDNAs were isolated that contained IgM or IgW V segments rearranged to other gene segments of TCRdelta and alpha. Finally, in situ hybridization experiments demonstrate a conservation of both alpha/beta and gamma/delta T cell localization in the thymus across 450 million years of vertebrate evolution, with gamma/delta TCR expression especially high in the subcapsular region. Collectively, these data make the first cellular identification of TCR-expressing lymphocytes in a cartilaginous fish.
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- Michael F Criscitiello
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
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- I.R. Kirsch
- Navy Medical Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, 20889-5105, U.S.A
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Leich E, Haralambieva E, Zettl A, Chott A, Rüdiger T, Höller S, Müller-Hermelink HK, Ott G, Rosenwald A. Tissue microarray-based screening for chromosomal breakpoints affecting the T-cell receptor gene loci in mature T-cell lymphomas. J Pathol 2007; 213:99-105. [PMID: 17582237 DOI: 10.1002/path.2196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The pathogenesis of mature T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas (T-NHLs) is poorly understood. Analogous to B-cell lymphomas, in which the immunoglobulin (IgH) receptor loci are frequently targeted by chromosomal translocations, the T-cell receptor (TCR) gene loci are affected by translocations in a subset of precursor T-cell malignancies. In a large-scale analysis of 245 paraffin-embedded mature T-NHLs, arranged in a tissue microarray format and using improved FISH assays for the detection of breakpoints in the TCRalpha/delta, TCRbeta, and TCRgamma loci, we provide evidence that mature T-NHLs other than T-cell prolymphocytic leukaemia (T-PLL) also occasionally show a chromosomal rearrangement that involves the TCRalpha/delta locus. In particular, one peripheral T-cell lymphoma (not otherwise specified, NOS) with the morphological variant of Lennert lymphoma displayed a chromosomal translocation t(14;19) involving the TCRalpha/delta and the BCL3 loci. A second case, an angio-immunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AILT), carried an inv(14)(q11q32) affecting the TCRalpha/delta and IgH loci. FISH signal constellations as well as concomitant comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) data were also suggestive of the occurrence of an isochromosome 7, previously described to be pathognomonic for hepatosplenic T-cell lymphomas, in rare cases of enteropathy-type T-cell lymphoma.
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MESH Headings
- B-Cell Lymphoma 3 Protein
- Case-Control Studies
- Chromosome Breakage
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 14
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 19
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Rearrangement, T-Lymphocyte
- Gene Rearrangement, alpha-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor
- Gene Rearrangement, delta-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor
- Genes, T-Cell Receptor
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/genetics
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/genetics
- Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
- Paraffin Embedding
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics
- Transcription Factors/genetics
- Translocation, Genetic
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- E Leich
- Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg, Germany
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Allam A, Kabelitz D. TCR trans-rearrangements: biological significance in antigen recognition vs the role as lymphoma biomarker. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2006; 176:5707-12. [PMID: 16670273 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.176.10.5707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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V(D)J rearrangements occur within loci of TCR and BCR genes, thus generating the diversity of the AgR repertoire. In addition, interlocus V(D)J rearrangements occur, giving rise to so-called "trans-rearrangements." Such trans-rearrangements increase the diversity of the immune receptor repertoire and can be expressed as functional chimeric TCR proteins on the surface of T cells. Although chimeric receptors are not pathogenic per se, the frequency of AgR trans-rearrangements correlates with the level of genetic instability and thus could be used as a predictive biomarker for lymphoma risk.
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- Atef Allam
- Laboratory of Immune Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Experimental approaches for deciphering the function of human genes rely heavily on our ability to generate mutations in model organisms such as the mouse. However, because recessive mutations are masked by the wild-type allele in the diploid context, conventional mutagenesis and screening is often laborious and costly. Chromosome engineering combines the power of gene targeting in embryonic stem (ES) cells with Cre--loxP technology to create mice that are functionally haploid in discrete portions of the genome. Chromosome deletions, duplications and inversions can be tagged with visible markers, facilitating strain maintenance. These approaches allow for more refined mutagenesis screens that will greatly accelerate functional mouse genomics and generate mammalian models for developmental processes and cancer.
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- A A Mills
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 BungtownRoad, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA.
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Retière C, Halary F, Peyrat MA, Le Deist F, Bonneville M, Hallet MM. The Mechanism of Chromosome 7 Inversion in Human Lymphocytes Expressing Chimeric γβ TCR. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.162.2.903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Functional chimeric TCR chains, encoded by VγJγCβ or VγJβCβ hybrid gene TCR, are expressed at the surface of a small fraction of αβ T lymphocytes in healthy individuals. Their frequency is dramatically increased in patients with ataxia-telangiectasia, a syndrome associated with inherited genomic instability. As the TCR γ and β loci are in an inverted orientation on chromosome 7, the generation of such hybrid genes requires at least an inversion event. Until now, neither the sequences involved in this genetic mechanism nor the number of recombinations leading to the formation of functional transcriptional units have been characterized. In this manuscript, we demonstrate that at least two rearrangements, involving classical recombination signal sequence and the V(D)J recombinase complex, lead to the formation of productive hybrid genes. A primary inversion 7 event between Dβ and Jγ genic segments generates CγVβ and CβVγ hybrid loci. Within the CγVβ locus, secondary rearrangements between Vγ and Jγ or Vγ and Jβ elements generate functional genes. Besides, our results suggest that secondary rearrangements were blocked in the CβVγ locus of normal but not ataxia-telangiectasia T lymphocytes. We also provide formal evidence that the same Dβ-3′ recombination signal sequence can be used in successive rearrangements with Jγ and Jβ genic segments, thus showing that a signal joint has been involved in a secondary recombination event.
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- Christelle Retière
- *Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U463, Institut de Biologie, Nantes, France; and
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- *Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U463, Institut de Biologie, Nantes, France; and
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- *Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U463, Institut de Biologie, Nantes, France; and
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- †Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U132, Hopital Necker, Enfants Malades, Paris, France
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- *Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U463, Institut de Biologie, Nantes, France; and
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- *Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U463, Institut de Biologie, Nantes, France; and
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Mamaeva SE. Karyotypic evolution of cells in culture: a new concept. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1997; 178:1-40. [PMID: 9348667 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)62134-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The Chapter summarizes peculiarities of karyotypic variability during establishment and long-term cultivation of permanent cell lines. A new concept on pathways of karyotypic evolution of cells in culture is put forward. A detailed description is presented of the author's original approach of cytogenetic analysis of cell lines provided for a principally new characteristic of the cell line: its generalized reconstructed karyotype (GRK). Its use as a criterion to evaluate authenticity, purity, and stability of cell lines is discussed. Based on analysis of the GRK, two stages of karyotype evolution of cell lines are revealed: establishment and stabilization, different in karyotypic variability of the cell population and in peculiarities of clone selection. Comparison of peculiarities of karyotypic variability of leukemic and tumor cells both in vitro and in vivo was made, and general regularities of their karyotypic evolution have been established, such as nonrandom changes in the number and structure of chromosomes and deletion of one of the sex chromosomes, as well as regularities characteristic only of cells in culture in most human and animal cell lines (at least 85%) of disomy on all autosomes. The rest of the cell lines, 15%, are characterized by either partial or total monosomies on certain autosomes during long-term cultivation. Three main compensatory mechanisms of maintaining viability of cell lines that have lost genetic material are discussed: polyploidization of the initial cell clone, amplification of oncogenes (predominantly of mys family), and extracopying of whole autosomes or of their fragments.
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- S E Mamaeva
- Laboratory of Cell Morphology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
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McCusker D, Jones T, Sheer D, Trowsdale J. Genetic relationships of the genes encoding the human proteasome beta subunits and the proteasome PA28 complex. Genomics 1997; 45:362-7. [PMID: 9344661 DOI: 10.1006/geno.1997.4948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Genomic clones were obtained for the genes encoding the beta subunits of the human proteasome and for the associated proteasome activators PA28alpha and beta (PSME1 and PSME2, respectively). Fluorescence in situ hybridization was used to map the gene encoding the beta subunit PSMB3 (beta3 hs, HsC10-II) to chromosome band 2q35, PSMB2 (beta4 hs, HsC7-I) to band 1p34.2, and PSMB4 (beta7 hs, HSBpros 26) to band 1q21. Genes encoding the alpha and beta subunits of the PA28 complex were found closely linked on chromosome band 14q11.2, within 1 Mb of the beta proteasome locus PSMB5 (beta5 hs, MB1, X). These data complete the mapping of the human proteasome beta subunit loci. With the exception of the genes encoding the PSMB9 and PSMB8 (LMP2 and LMP7, respectively) subunits, the beta genes were not closely linked in the human genome. Both PSMB2 and PSMB4 mapped to a region of chromosome 1 that is proposed to be paralogous to other regions of the human genome where beta proteasome genes map: chromosome 6 containing the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and chromosome 9. The independent regulation of expression of all of these genes, implied by this study, is consistent with a key role for proteasome assembly in coordination of the complex.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 14/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 5/genetics
- Cloning, Molecular
- Cysteine Endopeptidases/chemistry
- Cysteine Endopeptidases/genetics
- DNA Primers/genetics
- Genetic Linkage
- Humans
- Hybrid Cells
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Multienzyme Complexes/chemistry
- Multienzyme Complexes/genetics
- Multigene Family
- Muscle Proteins
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex
- Protein Conformation
- Proteins/genetics
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- D McCusker
- Human Immunogenetics Laboratory, Human Cytogenetics Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PX, United Kingdom.
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Koike M, Chumakov AM, Takeuchi S, Tasaka T, Yang R, Nakamaki T, Tsuruoka N, Koeffler HP. C/EBP-epsilon: chromosomal mapping and mutational analysis of the gene in leukemia and preleukemia. Leuk Res 1997; 21:833-9. [PMID: 9393598 DOI: 10.1016/s0145-2126(97)00072-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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We and others have cloned a novel human gene CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein epsilon (C/EBP-epsilon) encoding a member of the C/EBP gene family. It is exclusively expressed in myeloid and T-lymphoid cells and appears to have an important role in inducing expression of several myeloid-specific genes. We used a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based technique to examine DNA from 93 hamster/human radiation hybrid clones in order chromosomally to map C/EBP-epsilon to 14q11.2 (between D14S264 and D14S275) which is telomeric to the T-cell receptor alpha and delta genes and centromeric to several other myeloid gene products including Cathepsin G (CTSG) and Chymase-1 (CMA1). To determine whether C/EBP-epsilon behaves as an altered tumor-suppressor gene, samples from patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) evolving to AML were studied for loss of heterozygosity (LOH) using microsatellite sequences that we identified within 0.2 kb of the amino-terminus of the human C/EBP-epsilon gene. Allelic loss of the C/EBP-epsilon gene was detected in four out of 20 (20%) evolving MDS cases and in none of the 17 AML and 17 T-cell leukemia cases. Mutational analysis of the gene was performed using PCR-SSCP on 37 AML and 40 MDS cases including those with LOH at the gene. No abnormalities were found suggesting that the altered gene in this region is not C/EBP-epsilon. Also, C/EBP-epsilon was examined by Southern blot analysis on DNA samples from 20 AML patients and 10 AML cell lines. No rearrangements or amplifications of the gene were detected. Taken together, we have mapped C/EBP-epsilon to 14q11.2, a region containing other myeloid and T-lymphoid specific genes. Furthermore, no structural alterations were detected in the C/EBP-epsilon gene.
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MESH Headings
- Acute Disease
- Alleles
- Animals
- CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Proteins
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 14/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 14/ultrastructure
- Cricetinae
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- DNA, Neoplasm/genetics
- DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor
- Humans
- Hybrid Cells
- Leukemia/genetics
- Leukemia/pathology
- Leukemia, Myeloid/genetics
- Leukemia, Myeloid/pathology
- Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell/genetics
- Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell/pathology
- Loss of Heterozygosity
- Myelodysplastic Syndromes/genetics
- Myelodysplastic Syndromes/pathology
- Neoplasm Proteins/genetics
- Nuclear Proteins/genetics
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational
- Preleukemia/genetics
- Preleukemia/pathology
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- M Koike
- Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, UCLA School of Medicine 90048, USA
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Schlegelberger B, Feller AC. Classification of peripheral T-cell lymphomas: cytogenetic findings support the updated Kiel classification. Leuk Lymphoma 1996; 20:411-6. [PMID: 8833396 DOI: 10.3109/10428199609052422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The cytogenetic findings in peripheral T-cell lymphomas enabled us to distinguish not only between low and high grade peripheral T-cell lymphomas (PTL) but also between different morphologically defined subtypes. High grade lymphomas exhibited a higher frequency of aberrant clones, polyploid chromosome numbers, a higher complexity of aberrant clones and a lower proportion of normal metaphases than low grade PTL. Moreover, deletions in 6q, trisomies of 7q and monosomy 13 or changes of 13q14 were significantly more frequent in high grade than in low grade PTL. Translocation t(2;5)(p23;q35) was only seen in large cell anaplastic lymphoma. T-CLL/T-PLL was associated with the simultaneous presence of inversion inv(14)(q11q32.l) and trisomy 8q, mostly due to i(8q)(q10). Trisomy 3 was a characteristic chromosome aberration of lymphoepithelioid lymphoma, AILD-type T-cell lymphoma and T-zone lymphoma. In contrast to the other low grade PTL, AILD-type T-ceIl lymphoma and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma showed a high frequency of unrelated clones. In summary, the cytogenetic findings paralleled the histopathologic classification according to the updated Kiel classification and support the value of the distinction of the different morphologically defined entities.
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MESH Headings
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Chromosomes, Human/ultrastructure
- Humans
- Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/classification
- Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/genetics
- Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/pathology
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/classification
- Lymphoma, T-Cell, Peripheral/classification
- Lymphoma, T-Cell, Peripheral/genetics
- Lymphoma, T-Cell, Peripheral/pathology
- Neoplastic Stem Cells/ultrastructure
- T-Lymphocytes/ultrastructure
- Terminology as Topic
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Drexler HG, Borkhardt A, Janssen JW. Detection of chromosomal translocations in leukemia-lymphoma cells by polymerase chain reaction. Leuk Lymphoma 1995; 19:359-80. [PMID: 8590836 DOI: 10.3109/10428199509112194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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In recent years many chromosomal translocations involved in leukemia and lymphoma have been defined at the molecular level. In addition to advancing the understanding of pathological mechanisms underlying the transformation process, the cloning and sequencing of the genes altered by the translocations have provided new tools for diagnosis and monitoring of patients. In particular, the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methodology yields rapid, sensitive and accurate diagnostic and prognostic information. As leukemias carrying certain translocations confer a higher risk of treatment failure, it is important to identify accurately all positive cases in order to give appropriate therapy. An important new initiative in the diagnostical setting and anti-leukemic therapy is the early detection of minimal residual disease (MRD). If MRD, implying an increased risk of relapse, is reliably detected during apparent clinical remission, alternative strategies could be applied early while the malignant cell burden is still minimal. The PCR assays are clearly more sensitive than other methods of MRD detection including morphology, immunophenotyping and cytogenetics; treatment failure is first detectable by PCR followed by cytogenetic relapse and finally clinical disease. PCR assays have been most often used in the MRD analysis of follicular lymphoma with t(14;18), chronic myeloid leukemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) with t(9;22), ALL with t(4;11), and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with t(8;21) or t(15;17). PCR amplification is applicable to any other translocation provided the translocation is highly associated with the malignancy and the breakpoints are sufficiently clustered; a quickly increasing number of such specific molecular markers are now available for PCR assays. PCR still remains an experimental investigation for the detection of covert disease. However, the clinical relevance of MRD detection should be evaluated separately for each type of leukemia as significant prognostic differences between disease entities were found. This review describes the PCR assays available for the detection of leukemia cells with specific chromosomal translocations and summarizes the experience with the application of PCR techniques in monitoring patients during the course of the disease.
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- H G Drexler
- DSM-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Department of Human and Animal Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
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Arden B, Clark SP, Kabelitz D, Mak TW. Human T-cell receptor variable gene segment families. Immunogenetics 1995; 42:455-500. [PMID: 8550092 DOI: 10.1007/bf00172176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Multiple DNA and protein sequence alignments have been constructed for the human T-cell receptor alpha/delta, beta, and gamma (TCRA/D, B, and G) variable (V) gene segments. The traditional classification into subfamilies was confirmed using a much larger pool of sequences. For each sequence, a name was derived which complies with the standard nomenclature. The traditional numbering of V gene segments in the order of their discovery was continued and changed when in conflict with names of other segments. By discriminating between alleles at the same locus versus genes from different loci, we were able to reduce the number of more than 150 different TCRBV sequences in the database to a repertoire of only 47 functional TCRBV gene segments. An extension of this analysis to the over 100 TCRAV sequences results in a predicted repertoire of 42 functional TCRAV gene segments. Our alignment revealed two residues that distinguish between the highly homologous V delta and V alpha, one at a site that in VH contacts the constant region, the other at the interface between immunoglobulin VH and VL. This site may be responsible for restricted pairing between certain V delta and V gamma chains. On the other hand, V beta and V gamma appear to be related by the fact that their CDR2 length is increased by four residues as compared with that of V alpha/delta peptides.
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MESH Headings
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/classification
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/classification
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/genetics
- Sequence Alignment
- Terminology as Topic
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- B Arden
- Paul-Ehrlich-Institute, Langen, Germany
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Chervinsky DS, Grossi M, Kakati S, Block AW, Aplan PD. Concurrent presence of inv(14)(q11q32) and t(4;11)(q21;q23) in pre-B acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Genes Chromosomes Cancer 1995; 12:229-36. [PMID: 7536464 DOI: 10.1002/gcc.2870120312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The inv(14)(q11q32) is a non-random chromosomal aberration which has been associated with a variety of T-cell malignancies. We have studied a case of inv(14)(q11q32) that is unique in several respects. First, the inversion, which is expressed at the mRNA level, occurred in the context of a pre-B acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) as opposed to a T-cell malignancy. Second, cloning and sequencing of the inversion revealed that it resulted from a fusion between an immunoglobulin heavy chain variable (V) segment and a T-cell receptor delta diversity (D) segment. In addition, the patient had a second chromosomal abnormality at diagnosis, a t(4;11)(q21;q23) which disrupted the MLL gene. The fact that there were two distinct chromosomal abnormalities at diagnosis enabled us to address the question of leukemic clonal evolution during the course of this patient's disease. We present evidence suggesting that the t(4;11)(q21;q23) occurred first, with the inv(14)(q11q32) occurring as a second event.
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MESH Headings
- Acute Disease
- Base Sequence
- Child
- Chimera
- Chromosome Banding
- Chromosome Inversion
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 14
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 4
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte, Heavy Chain
- Humans
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Precursor B-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma/blood
- Precursor B-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/genetics
- Translocation, Genetic
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- D S Chervinsky
- Department of Pediatrics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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Wong KF, Kwong YL, Wong TK. Inversion 14q in acute lymphoblastic leukemia of B-lineage. CANCER GENETICS AND CYTOGENETICS 1995; 80:72-4. [PMID: 7697638 DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(94)00155-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Many types of leukemia are associated with specific chromosomal rearrangements. Inversion 14(q11q32) has been reported to be specifically associated with post-thymic T-cell malignancies, including T-chronic lymphocytic leukemia. T-prolymphocytic leukemia, and adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma. We have previously reported its occurrence in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Recently, we encountered a case of acute lymphoblastic leukemia with inv(14)(q11q32), which surprisingly showed a B-cell immunophenotype (CD10+CD19+HLA-DR+Ig mu-).
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- K F Wong
- Department of Pathology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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Chromosomal abnormalities in tumours were recognized at the end of the last century but their significance has only recently become clear. Distinct translocations in leukaemias and in solid tumours lead to the activation of proto-oncogene products or, more commonly, creation of tumour-specific fusion proteins. The proteins in both categories are often transcription factors and thus disruption of transcriptional control plays a major role in the aetiology of cancer. Fusion proteins formed after chromosomal translocations are common in a range of tumour types; these are unique tumour antigens and are therefore potential targets for therapy design.
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- T H Rabbitts
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
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Schlegelberger B, Himmler A, Bartles H, Kuse R, Sterry W, Grote W. Recurrent chromosome abnormalities in peripheral T-cell lymphomas. CANCER GENETICS AND CYTOGENETICS 1994; 78:15-22. [PMID: 7987800 DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(94)90040-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Cytogenetic findings in 45 cases of peripheral T-cell lymphomas (PTL) diagnosed according to the updated Kiel classification are reported. Recurrent numerical chromosome aberrations comprised -X, -Y, -13, +X, +3, +5 and +7. Recurrent structural aberrations included t/del(1)(p31-32), t(2;5)(p23;q35), dup(5)(q23q31-32), t/dup(6q), t/del(6q), trisomy 7q, and trisomy 8q, mostly due to i(8)(q10), and changes in 14q11 and 14q32.1, mostly due to inv(14)(q11q32.1), t/del(13)(q14), t(6;7)(q13;q13), and t(13;17)(q11-13;p11). All deletions in 6q involved band 6q21 and all partial trisomies of 7q led to an amplification of band 7q21. Further studies are needed to ascertain whether these cytogenetic findings in PTL are of clinical and prognostic significance.
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Davodeau F, Peyrat MA, Gaschet J, Hallet MM, Triebel F, Vié H, Kabelitz D, Bonneville M. Surface expression of functional T cell receptor chains formed by interlocus recombination on human T lymphocytes. J Exp Med 1994; 180:1685-91. [PMID: 7964454 PMCID: PMC2191748 DOI: 10.1084/jem.180.5.1685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Structural diversity of lymphocyte antigen receptors (the immunoglobulin [Ig] of B cells and the alpha/beta or gamma/delta T cell receptor [TCR] of T cells) is generated through somatic rearrangements of V, D, and J gene segments. Classically, these recombination events involve gene segments from the same Ig or TCR locus. However, occurrence of "trans" rearrangements between distinct loci has also been described, although in no instances was the surface expression of the corresponding protein under normal physiological conditions demonstrated. Here we show that hybrid TCR genes generated by trans rearrangement between V gamma and (D) J beta elements are translated into functional antigen receptor chains, paired with TCR alpha chains. Like classical alpha/beta T cells, cells expressing these hybrid TCR chains express either CD4 or CD8 coreceptors and are frequently alloreactive. These results have several implications in terms of T cell repertoire selection and relationships between TCR structure and specificity. First, they suggest that TCR alloreactivity is determined by the repertoire selection processes operating during lymphocyte development rather than by structural features specific to V alpha V beta regions. Second, they suggest the existence of close structural relationships between gamma/delta and alpha/beta TCR and more particularly, between V gamma and V beta regions. Finally, since a significant fraction of PBL (at least 1/10(4)) expressed hybrid TCR chains on their surface, these observations indicate that trans rearrangements significantly contribute to the combinatorial diversification of the peripheral immune repertoire.
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MESH Headings
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology
- Base Sequence
- CD4 Antigens/analysis
- CD8 Antigens/analysis
- Cell Line
- Gene Rearrangement, T-Lymphocyte
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/analysis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/analysis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/genetics
- Recombination, Genetic
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
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- F Davodeau
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U211, Institut de Biologie, Nantes, France
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Casorati G, Traunecker A, Karjalainen K. The T cell receptor alpha beta V-J shuffling shows lack of autonomy between the combining site and the constant domain of the receptor chains. Eur J Immunol 1993; 23:586-9. [PMID: 8436191 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830230246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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In order to assess the structural independence of the T cell receptor (TCR) combining site from the rest of the molecule we have generated two recombinant chains consisting of a TCR V-J alpha region linked to the C beta and a TCR V-J beta linked to the C alpha. If the V and C domains of the TCR form independent domains, as has been shown for the Ig molecules, we would expect to obtain a functional chimeric TCR. Interestingly, it was found that the shuffled molecules are produced intracellularly in T cell hybridomas, but are not expressed on the cell surface. To explain this failure of the shuffled molecules we propose that the TCR has a more compact structure, compared to the Ig, and that it is indispensable to keep a longitudinal inter-domain contact between the V-J and C portion to have a functional molecule.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Binding Sites, Antibody/immunology
- Cells, Cultured
- Gene Rearrangement, T-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Genes, Immunoglobulin/genetics
- Genes, Immunoglobulin/immunology
- Hybridomas/immunology
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Oligonucleotide Probes
- Plasmids
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer/immunology
- Transfection
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- G Casorati
- Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland
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Macera MJ, Szabo P, Verma RS. Chromosomal localization of HTLV-1 viral integration sites using in situ hybridization: detection of a novel IL2R fragment. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1992; 234:466-74. [PMID: 1357540 DOI: 10.1007/bf00538707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The presence of human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV-1) in patients with adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) was investigated by Southern blotting and in situ hybridization. In all seven patients, HTLV-1 provirus was detected. A large and variable number of labeled restriction fragments were observed, indicating multiple integrations. Two of the patients analyzed by in situ hybridization had two, while the third patient had three, sites of viral integration on six different chromosomes, suggesting random integration. A single site of integration was shared by two patients, which was on chromosome 10 at bands p11-->p15. One of these sites was on an apparently normal chromosome 10 and the other was on a derivative chromosome 10,t(10;14)(p12;q32). The interleukin 2 receptor (IL2R) has previously been localized to this region (10p14-->p15). The alpha-chain of the IL2R is continuously expressed on affected T-cells in this disease. Southern blotting with pIL2R showed the presence of a novel 3.5 kb fragment in five out of the seven patients. This novel fragment has not been previously reported. No direct correlation was found between the novel 3.5 kb fragment, present in patients both cytogenetically normal and abnormal, and viral integration in the 10p11-->p15 region in two patients. Therefore, it is suggested that the presence of the 3.5 kb fragment and the numerous chromosomal breaks associated with this disease may not be direct results of viral integration.
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- M J Macera
- Division of Genetics, Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y
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Chothia C, Lesk AM, Gherardi E, Tomlinson IM, Walter G, Marks JD, Llewelyn MB, Winter G. Structural repertoire of the human VH segments. J Mol Biol 1992; 227:799-817. [PMID: 1404389 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(92)90224-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 320] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The VH gene segments produce the part of the VH domains of antibodies that contains the first two hypervariable regions. The sequences of 83 human VH segments with open reading frames, from several individuals, are currently known. It has been shown that these sequences are likely to form a high proportion of the total human repertoire and that an individual's gene repertoire produces about 50 VH segments with different protein sequences. In this paper we present a structural analysis of the amino acid sequences produced by the 83 segments. Particular residue patterns in the sequences of V domains imply particular main-chain conformations, canonical structures, for the hypervariable regions. We show that, in almost all cases, the residue patterns in the VH segments imply that the first hypervariable regions have one of three different canonical structures and that the second hypervariable regions have one of five different canonical structures. The different observed combinations of the canonical structures in the first and second regions means that almost all sequences have one of seven main-chain folds. We describe, in outline, structures of the antigen binding site loops produced by nearly all the VH segments. The exact specificity of the loops is produced by (1) sequence differences in their surface residues, particularly at sites near the centre of the combining site, and (2) sequence differences in the hypervariable and framework regions that modulate the relative positions of the loops.
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- C Chothia
- Cambridge Centre for Protein Engineering, England
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Tomlinson IM, Walter G, Marks JD, Llewelyn MB, Winter G. The repertoire of human germline VH sequences reveals about fifty groups of VH segments with different hypervariable loops. J Mol Biol 1992; 227:776-98. [PMID: 1404388 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(92)90223-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 486] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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We have used the polymerase chain reaction and VH family-based primers to clone and sequence 74 human germline VH segments from a single individual and built a directory to include all known germline sequences. The directory contains 122 VH segments with different nucleotide sequences, 83 of which have open reading frames. The directory indicates that the structural diversity of the germline repertoire for antigen binding is fixed by about 50 groups of VH segments: each group encodes identical hypervariable loops. The directory should help in mapping the VH locus, in estimating somatic mutation and VH segment usage and in designing and constructing synthetic antibody libraries.
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Fisch P, Foroni L, Forster A, Lavenir I, Mengle-Gaw L, Rabbitts TH. Immunoglobulin VH-T cell receptor C alpha fusion mRNA resulting from chromosome inversion include the T cell-associated 5' exon ET. Eur J Immunol 1992; 22:2745-8. [PMID: 1339353 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830221042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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A human T cell lymphoma has been described in which an inversion of chromosome 14 results in fusion of an immunoglobulin heavy chain VH with a T cell receptor J alpha segment, potentially resulting in a chimeric protein with immunoglobulin VH region recognition plus T cell receptor effector functions. Examination of the mRNA species expressed from the IgT gene in this lymphoma shows a variety of forms but all IgT mRNA include the T cell-specific exon, ET, previously located in the distal part of the VH locus. In such mRNA species, the normal leader exon of the Ig VH segment, which encodes most of the hydrophobic signal peptide, is replaced by the short ET exon encoding mainly non-hydrophobic residues. Two forms of this mRNA exist which lack the Ig VH leader sequence and thus potentially yield non-membrane proteins in the T cell lymphoma.
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- P Fisch
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, GB
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Lipkowitz S, Garry VF, Kirsch IR. Interlocus V-J recombination measures genomic instability in agriculture workers at risk for lymphoid malignancies. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1992; 89:5301-5. [PMID: 1608939 PMCID: PMC49279 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.89.12.5301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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V(D)J [variable-(diversity)-joining] rearrangements occur between, as well as within, immune receptor loci, resulting in the generation of hybrid antigen-receptor genes and the formation of a variety of lymphocyte-specific chromosomal aberrations. Such hybrid genes occur at a low frequency in the peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) of normal individuals but show a markedly increased incidence in the PBL of individuals with the autosomal recessive disease ataxia-telangiectasia. In this manuscript we demonstrate that the frequency of hybrid antigen-receptor genes is 10- to 20-fold increased in the PBL of an occupational group, agriculture workers, with related environmental exposures. Both ataxia-telangiectasia patients and this population of agriculture workers are at increased risk for lymphoid malignancy. This result suggests that the measurement of hybrid antigen receptor-genes in PBL may be a sensitive assay for a type of lymphocyte-specific genomic instability. As a corollary, this assay may identify populations at risk of developing common types of lymphoid malignancy.
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- S Lipkowitz
- National Cancer Institute-Navy Medical Oncology Branch, Bethesda Naval Hospital, MD 20889-5105
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Abe M, Tasaki K, Nozawa Y, Tominaga K, Fukuhara S, Ohsato T, Wakasa H. Establishment and characterization of a human T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma cell line (HT-1) carrying an inversion of chromosome 14. Cancer 1992; 69:1235-40. [PMID: 1310890 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.2820690527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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A new human lymphoblastic lymphoma cell line was established (designated HT-1) from the pleural fluid lymphoma cells of a patient with lymphoblastic lymphoma of T-cell type. The HT-1 cells expressed CD1, CD2, CD3, CD4, CD5, CD7, CD8, CD57, and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) but lacked B-cell-associated antigens and myeloid-associated antigens. In addition, HT-1 cells had rearranged T-cell receptor (TCR) beta-chain gene and gamma-chain gene but retained germlines of immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy chain gene. These findings indicate that HT-1 cell line represents a common thymocyte in the T-cell lineage. Cytogenetic studies revealed that HT-1 cells carry an inversion (inv) of the long arm of chromosome 14. This cell line is the second T-cell line carrying inv(14) chromosome and may be useful for the molecular investigation of the cytogenetic break points of inv(14).
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- M Abe
- Department of Pathology, Fukushima Medical College, Japan
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Richards-Smith BA, Brodeur PH, Elliott RW. Deletion mapping of the mouse ornithine decarboxylase-related locus Odc-rs8 within Igh-V. Mamm Genome 1992; 3:568-74. [PMID: 1421765 DOI: 10.1007/bf00350623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The Odc-rs8 locus belongs to a family of mouse DNA sequences related to the gene encoding ornithine decarboxylase (ODC). Odc-rs8 was mapped by recombinant inbred (RI) strain analysis to the region of Chromosome (Chr) 12 occupied by the variable region genes of the immunoglobulin heavy chain (Igh) complex. In the present study, alleles at Odc-rs8 were shown to cosegregate with those for Igh variable region (Igh-V or VH) genes among 37 inbred mouse strains that had been characterized previously for their haplotypes at Igh. For a more precise definition of the location of Odc-rs8 relative to Igh-V, DNAs from 17 Abelson murine leukemia virus (A-MuLV)-transformed pre-B cell lines cultured from mice heterozygous at Igh and Odc-rs8 were analyzed for the presence of DNA restriction fragments (RFs) derived from each parental Odc-rs8 allele. These cell lines, each of which has rearranged one or both Igh genes, previously were employed in mapping members of nine VH gene families by deletion analysis (Brodeur et al. 1988). Comparing the deletion profiles of the cell lines for Odc-rs8 with those for the VH gene families has located Odc-rs8b within the VHJ558/VH3609 gene cluster and Odc-rs8c either within or upstream of the 5'-most 9% of VHJ558, identifying Odc-rs8 as a potentially useful marker for the 5' end of the Igh complex.
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- B A Richards-Smith
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263
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Reis MD, Griesser H, Mak TW. Antigen receptor genes in hemopoietic malignancies. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1991; 1072:177-92. [PMID: 1751547 DOI: 10.1016/0304-419x(91)90013-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- M D Reis
- Department of Laboratory Haematology, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Toronto, Canada
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Kojis TL, Gatti RA, Sparkes RS. The cytogenetics of ataxia telangiectasia. CANCER GENETICS AND CYTOGENETICS 1991; 56:143-56. [PMID: 1756458 DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(91)90164-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Ataxia-telangiectasia (AT) is a heterogeneous autosomal recessive disorder marked by cerebellar ataxia, oculocutaneous telangiectases, hypersensitivity to ionizing radiation, immunodeficiency, and cancer susceptibility. AT is also a spontaneous chromosomal breakage syndrome, notable for tissue-specific cytogenetic changes and telomeric fusions. Molecular characterization of rearrangements specific to T-lymphocytes suggests that a DNA repair/processing defect is potentially responsible for the diverse array of chromosomal abnormalities observed in a variety of AT cell types.
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- T L Kojis
- Jules Stein Eye Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90024-7008
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Aplan PD, Lombardi DP, Ginsberg AM, Cossman J, Bertness VL, Kirsch IR. Disruption of the human SCL locus by "illegitimate" V-(D)-J recombinase activity. Science 1990; 250:1426-9. [PMID: 2255914 DOI: 10.1126/science.2255914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 227] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A fusion complementary DNA in the T cell line HSB-2 elucidates a provocative mechanism for the disruption of the putative hematopoietic transcription factor SCL. The fusion cDNA results from an interstitial deletion between a previously unknown locus, SIL (SCL interrupting locus), and the 5' untranslated region of SCL. Similar to 1;14 translocations, this deletion disrupts the SCL 5' regulatory region. This event is probably mediated by V-(D)-J recombinase activity, although neither locus is an immunoglobulin or a T cell receptor. Two other T cell lines, CEM and RPMI 8402, have essentially identical deletions. Thus, in lymphocytes, growth-affecting genes other than immune receptors risk rearrangements.
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- P D Aplan
- National Cancer Institute-Navy Medical Oncology Branch, Naval Hospital, Bethesda, MD 20889-5105
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Pellet P, Tsapis A, Brouet JC. Alpha heavy chain disease of patient MAL: structure of the non-functional rearranged alpha gene translocated on chromosome 9. Eur J Immunol 1990; 20:2731-5. [PMID: 2125275 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830201230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Alpha heavy chain diseases (HCD) are lymphoproliferative disorders characterized by the production of truncated alpha immunoglobulin heavy chain without associated light chains, alpha HCD MAL is featured by multiple structural alterations of the alpha 1 productive gene and on original t(9;14)(p11;q32) translocation involving the other rearranged alpha 1 allele. We present here the structure of the der(9) chromosome. Sequence analysis provides evidence that the translocation occurred after local pairing of the two chromosomes mediated by an almost perfect nonameric sequence, followed by a staggered double-strand break of chromosome 14. This translocation occurred on a V(D)J rearranged locus; unexpectedly, there were a deletion of the 3' part of the VH gene, several insertions of non-immunoglobulin-related genes and multiple mutations, i.e. alterations reminiscent of those occurring on the HCD productive genes.
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- P Pellet
- Laboratory of Immunochemistry and Immunopathology, INSERM U 108, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
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Heerema NA. Cytogenetic Abnormalities and Molecular Markers of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0889-8588(18)30468-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Corcos D. Oncogenic potential of the B-cell antigen receptor and its relevance to heavy chain diseases and other B-cell neoplasias: a new model. RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY 1990; 141:543-53. [PMID: 2284498 DOI: 10.1016/0923-2494(90)90022-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Some growth factor receptor genes can be activated to become oncogenic as a result of various mutations. The receptors that are encoded by these genes may deliver constitutive signals independent of ligand binding. The model which is presented here assumes that alterations in the B-cell antigen receptor could have similar effects. Evidence that membrane immunoglobulin alterations contribute to oncogenesis in vivo comes from studies of heavy chain diseases. Moreover, this model could have also implications for other B-cell neoplasias.
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- D Corcos
- Institut Jacques Monod du CNRS, Unité INSERM 257, Université, Paris VII
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Brisco MJ, Tan LW, Orsborn AM, Morley AA. Development of a highly sensitive assay, based on the polymerase chain reaction, for rare B-lymphocyte clones in a polyclonal population. Br J Haematol 1990; 75:163-7. [PMID: 2372502 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.1990.tb02643.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 157] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A method has been developed to use the polymerase chain reaction to amplify and sequence the chain determining region 3 (CDR 3) of the human immunoglobulin heavy-chain gene, and to use the sequence as a marker for rare neoplastic B lymphocytes. Consensus primers for the Variable and Joining regions of the gene were constructed and shown to enable efficient amplification, directed cloning, and sequencing of CDR 3. Using leukaemic cell line PFMC as a test system, CDR 3 was sequenced, specific primers synthesized, and PFMC DNA was detected down to a dilution of 1:1300 in DNA from normal lymphocytes. This strategy should be useful for monitoring therapy and detecting early disease relapse in B lymphoproliferative disease.
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- M J Brisco
- Department of Haematology, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, South Australia
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Schlegelberger B, Feller AC, Wacker HH, Lohmeyer J, Grote W. Inv(14) with distal breakpoint in 14q32.1 in three cases of T cell lymphoma. Hum Genet 1990; 85:80-4. [PMID: 2358304 DOI: 10.1007/bf00276328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The distal breakpoint of inv(14) in T cell clones, established from patients with ataxia telangiectasia, lies outside the immunoglobulin heavy chain gene locus on 14q32.3, and more proximal to the centromere than the distal breakpoint of inv(14) in the T cell lymphoma cell line SUP-T1. We report 3 cases of T cell lymphoma cytogenetically showing the same type of inv(14) as the AT T cell clones. All 3 cases express a similar immunophenotype, which is that of peripheral T lymphocytes with phenotypic remnants of thymic or postthymic lymphoblasts. This finding provides evidence that this type of inv(14) is involved in the malignant transformation of mature T lymphocytes.
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- B Schlegelberger
- Abteilung Humangenetik, Christian Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Federal Republic of Germany
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Shiraishi Y. Western blotting analysis for malignant lymphoma and stomach cancer antigens from carcinogen-transformed Bloom syndrome cells. Int J Cancer 1990; 45:783-7. [PMID: 2323853 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.2910450434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Membrane antigen (glyco-) proteins associated with malignant lymphoma (ML) and stomach (ST) cancer were collected from a carcinogen-transformed Bloom syndrome (BS) B-lymphoblastoid cell line by means of the panning protocol, in which antigen cell clones which specifically react with antibodies in ML and ST cancer sera were separated on polystyrene dishes coated with IgG. Gel electrophoresis and Western blotting (WB) analyses demonstrated that antigens which characterize ML and ST cancer gave a single band (ML, 97 kDa; ST, 118 kDa) and did not cross-react with sera of other cancer patients or with normal sera. The present WB procedure may be useful for diagnostic purposes. The amino acid sequence of the ML antigen band (97 kDa) had 76.9% (in 13 sequences) homology to that of the variable region of the immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy chain (IgVH) at the N-terminal end, while the sequence of the ST (118 kDa) cancer antigen had little homology to IgVH.
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- Y Shiraishi
- Department of Anatomy, Kochi Medical School, Japan
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Schlegelberger B, Feller A, Himmler A, Grote W. Inv(14)(q11q32) in one of four different clones in a case of angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy. CANCER GENETICS AND CYTOGENETICS 1990; 44:77-81. [PMID: 2293883 DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(90)90200-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A case of angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy with dysproteinemia (AILD) with four cytogenetically different cell clones (49,XX,+5,+19,+21/47,XX,+X/46,XX,inv (14)(q11q32)/45,X,-X) is reported. To our knowledge, this is the first case of AILD with an inv(14)(q11q32), thus probably involving the T-cell receptor alpha-chain gene. The cytogenetic findings are discussed with respect to the possible progression of AILD to malignant lymphoma.
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- B Schlegelberger
- Department of Human Genetics, Christian Albrecht University, Kiel, Federal Republic of Germany
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Cossman J, Uppenkamp M, Andrade R, Medeiros LJ. T-cell receptor gene rearrangements and the diagnosis of human T-cell neoplasms. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 1990; 10:267-81. [PMID: 2257088 DOI: 10.1016/1040-8428(90)90035-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The rearranging antigen receptor genes of lymphoid cells serve as unique clonal markers of lymphoid neoplasms. Gene rearrangement analysis is a highly sensitive and reproducible tool which is useful in the diagnosis and classification of malignant lymphoma/leukemia. Although clonality can often be determined among B cell neoplasms by virtue of immunoglobulin isotype analysis, no such phenotypic marker of clonality exists for T cells. Therefore, clonality of T lymphoproliferative processes is most readily determined by rearrangement analysis of the T cell antigen receptor genes. The alpha, beta, gamma, and delta genes of the T cell receptor gene family encode heterodimeric surface antigen receptors and undergo rearrangement early in T cell differentiation. Identification of rearrangement of T cell antigen receptor genes provides valuable diagnostic information concerning cellular lineage, clonality and classification of T cell neoplasms. This molecular approach is applicable to the diagnosis of occult disease, relapse, and resolution of diagnostic dilemmas in any type of tissue sample including fluids and needle aspirations.
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MESH Headings
- Gene Rearrangement, T-Lymphocyte/genetics
- Genome, Human
- Humans
- Leukemia, T-Cell/diagnosis
- Leukemia, T-Cell/genetics
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/diagnosis
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/genetics
- Lymphoproliferative Disorders/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/chemistry
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/physiology
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- J Cossman
- Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, N.I.H., Bethesda, MD 20892
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Bertness VL, Felix CA, McBride OW, Morgan R, Smith SD, Sandberg AA, Kirsch IR. Characterization of the breakpoint of a t(14;14)(q11.2;q32) from the leukemic cells of a patient with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. CANCER GENETICS AND CYTOGENETICS 1990; 44:47-54. [PMID: 1967157 DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(90)90196-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The leukemic cells and derivative cell line from a 74-year-old male with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia showed chromosomal abnormalities including a t(14;14)(q11.2;q32). This translocation is characteristic of a variety of T-cell malignancies, particularly T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia and the clonal proliferations of peripheral T cells in patients with ataxia-telangiectasia. Using DNA probes that spanned the T-cell receptor alpha chain (TCRA) joining (J) locus, the DNA rearrangement caused by the translocation was identified, cloned, and sequenced. The breakpoint shows site-specific juxtaposition of a TCRA joining segment and DNA from a region of 14q32 centromeric to the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus. Comparison of restriction map and nucleotide sequence from this translocation with other related chromosomal breakpoints suggests a dispersion of breakpoints throughout the 14q32 region.
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- V L Bertness
- Navy Medical Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20814-5105
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Gross G, Waks T, Eshhar Z. Expression of immunoglobulin-T-cell receptor chimeric molecules as functional receptors with antibody-type specificity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989; 86:10024-8. [PMID: 2513569 PMCID: PMC298636 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.86.24.10024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1017] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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To design and direct at will the specificity of T cells in a non-major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-restricted manner, we have generated and expressed chimeric T-cell receptor (TcR) genes composed of the TcR constant (C) domains fused to the antibody's variable (V) domains. Genomic expression vectors have been constructed containing the rearranged gene segments coding for the V region domains of the heavy (VH) and light (VL) chains of an anti-2,4,6-trinitrophenyl (TNP) antibody (SP6) spliced to either one of the C-region gene segments of the alpha or beta TcR chains. Following transfection into a cytotoxic T-cell hybridoma, expression of a functional TcR was detected. The chimeric TcR exhibited the idiotope of the Sp6 anti-TNP antibody and endowed the T cells with a non-MHC-restricted response to the hapten TNP. The transfectants specifically killed and produced interleukin 2 in response to TNP-bearing target cells across strain and species barriers. Moreover, such transfectants responded to immobilized TNP-protein conjugates, bypassing the need for cellular processing and presentation. In the particular system employed, both the TNP-binding site and the Sp6 idiotope reside almost exclusively in the VH chain region. Hence, introduction into T cells of TcR genes containing only the VHSp6 fused to either the C alpha or C beta was sufficient for the expression of a functional surface receptor. Apparently, the VHC alpha or VHC beta chimeric chains can pair with the endogenous beta or alpha chains of the recipient T cell to form a functional alpha beta heterodimeric receptor. Thus, this chimeric receptor provides the T cell with an antibody-like specificity and is able to effectively transmit the signal for T-cell activation and execution of its effector function.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibody Specificity
- Blotting, Northern
- Cell Line
- Chimera
- Cloning, Molecular
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic
- Embryo, Mammalian
- Exons
- Gene Library
- Gene Rearrangement, T-Lymphocyte
- Genes, Immunoglobulin
- Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/genetics
- Immunoglobulin Light Chains/genetics
- Immunoglobulin Variable Region/genetics
- Interleukin-2/biosynthesis
- Kinetics
- Major Histocompatibility Complex
- Mice
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/immunology
- Restriction Mapping
- Transcription, Genetic
- Transfection
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- G Gross
- Department of Chemical Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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Kojis TL, Schreck RR, Gatti RA, Sparkes RS. Tissue specificity of chromosomal rearrangements in ataxia-telangiectasia. Hum Genet 1989; 83:347-52. [PMID: 2807275 DOI: 10.1007/bf00291379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Cytogenetic studies of lymphocytes and fibroblasts from individuals with ataxia-telangiectasia (AT) demonstrate spontaneous chromosomal breakage. In the AT lymphocytes, this damage results in a high frequency of balanced rearrangements involving chromosome bands 7p14, 7q35, 14q12, and 14q32. The T-cell receptor alpha, beta, and gamma chain gene complexes and the immunoglobulin heavy chain gene complex, all of which may be functional in lymphocytes, have been localized to these bands. To assess the relationship between genes at these breakpoints and the entirety of the AT phenotype, we undertook a detailed cytogenetic analysis of fibroblasts and lymphocytes from seven AT homozygotes. Our findings indicate that the rearrangements present in the lymphocytes are not commonly observed in the fibroblasts, despite the increased instability of chromosomes from the cells relative to lymphocytes. Furthermore, the changes in the fibroblasts are neither consistent within nor between patients, suggesting that chromosome rearrangement occurs more randomly in this tissue. Therefore, differential site-specific damage in separate tissue may generate the distinct features of the disease in those tissues and may account for the pleiotrophic effects of the AT gene.
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- T L Kojis
- Medical Genetics-Birth Defects Center, Los Angeles, CA
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Boehm T, Rabbitts TH. A chromosomal basis of lymphoid malignancy in man. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1989; 185:1-17. [PMID: 2680485 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1989.tb15074.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- T Boehm
- Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England
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