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Stereotyped B Cell Receptors in B Cell Leukemias and Lymphomas

DARZENTAS, Nikos and Kostas STAMATOPOULOS

Basic information

Original name

Stereotyped B Cell Receptors in B Cell Leukemias and Lymphomas

Authors

DARZENTAS, Nikos (300 Greece, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Kostas STAMATOPOULOS (300 Greece)

Edition

Vol. 971. London, Lymphoma, p. 135-148, 14 pp. Methods in Molecular Biology, 2013

Publisher

Humana Press

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

30200 3.2 Clinical medicine

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14740/13:00072871

Organization unit

Central European Institute of Technology

ISBN

978-1-62703-268-1

Keywords in English

B cell receptor; Immunoglobulin gene; CDR3; antigen; pattern; stereotypy; bioinformatics

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 8/4/2014 11:24, Olga Křížová

Abstract

V originále

Recent research has revealed the existence of subsets (clusters) of patients with different types of B-cell lymphomas and leukemias with restricted, “stereotyped” immunoglobulin (IG) variable heavy complementarity-determining region 3 (VH CDR3) sequences within their B cell receptors (BcR), suggesting selection by common epitopes or classes of structurally similar epitopes. BcR stereotypy was initially described in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), where it constitutes a remarkably frequent feature of the IG repertoire, and subsequently identified in other malignancies, including mantle cell lymphoma and splenic marginal-zone lymphoma. Of note, at least in CLL, emerging evidence indicates that the grouping of cases into distinct clusters with stereotyped BcR is functionally and prognostically relevant. Hence, the reliable identification of BcR stereotypy may assist in the investigation of the nature of the selecting antigens and immune pathways leading to lymphoma development, and also potentially pave the way for tailored treatment strategies applicable to each major stereotyped subset. In this chapter, we provide an overview of BcR stereotypy in human B-cell malignancies, and outline previous and current methodological approaches used for its identification.