DNA fiber fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis of immunoglobulin class switching in B-cell neoplasia:: Aberrant CH gene rearrangements in follicle center-cell lymphoma
DNA fiber fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis of immunoglobulin class switching in B-cell neoplasia:: Aberrant CH gene rearrangements in follicle center-cell lymphoma
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DOI:
10.1182/blood.v92.8.2871.420k08_2871_2878
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发表时间:
1998-10-15
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20.3
通讯作者:
Kluin, PM
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作者:
Vaandrager, JW;Schuuring, E;Kluin, PM
Immunoglobulin class switching usually involves deletion of part of the immunoglobulin CH region. By DNA fiber fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with a barcode of probes covering the D-H, J(H), and C-H genes, the configuration of the entire C-H region can be visualized on single DNA molecules. Using this technique, we have studied class switching in three types of B-cell neoplasia, mantle-cell lymphoma (MCL), follicular lymphoma (FL) and hairy cell leukemia (HCL), representing B cells in, respectively, pregerminal center, germinal center, and postgerminal center stages of development. In MCL and FL, simultaneous detection of the t(11;14) and t(14;18) breakpoint with probes for the BCL-1 and BCL-2 loci, respectively, allowed differentiation between productive and nonproductive alleles. In none of 10 MCL cases was class switching detected. In 21 HCL, all nonimmunoglobulin M (IgM) cases had class-switch deletion consistent with the expressed isotype on at least one allele. In FL, however, a peculiar pattern of C-H rearrangement was observed. In IgM expressing FL, the translocated alleles had switched in 11 of 13 cases, and the nontranslocated allele showed complex rearrangements downstream from the C mu-C delta genes in 9 of 13 cases. These downstream rearrangements may reflect tumor-specific deregulation of the class-switch machinery. All seven immunoglobulin G (IgG) expressing FL showed class switching on both alleles. Fiber FISH analysis also showed several polymorphisms. The most frequent one, present on 38% of all analyzed alleles, consisted of an extra C gamma gene or pseudogene in the 3' cluster. (C) 1998 by The American Society of Hematology.