Harnessing lymphoma epigenetics to improve therapies

H Yang, MR Green - Blood, The Journal of the American …, 2020 - ashpublications.org
Affinity maturation and terminal differentiation of B cells via the germinal center reaction is a
complex multistep process controlled by transcription factors that induce or suppress large …

Follicular lymphoma, a B cell malignancy addicted to epigenetic mutations

K Korfi, S Ali, JA Heward, J Fitzgibbon - Epigenetics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
While follicular lymphoma (FL) is exquisitely responsive to immuno-chemotherapy, many
patients follow a relapsing remitting clinical course driven in part by a common precursor cell …

Pathogenesis of human B cell lymphomas

AL Shaffer III, RM Young… - Annual review of …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The mechanisms that drive normal B cell differentiation and activation are frequently
subverted by B cell lymphomas for their unlimited growth and survival. B cells are …

The many layers of epigenetic dysfunction in B-cell lymphomas

Y Jiang, PM Dominguez… - Current opinion in …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Appreciation of the epigenome in determining lymphoma clonal heterogeneity and in driving
lymphoma phenotypes through altered promoter and enhancer histone modification profiles …

Molecular pathogenesis of germinal center‐derived B cell lymphomas

L Pasqualucci - Immunological reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
B cell lymphomas comprise a heterogeneous group of genetically, biologically, and clinically
distinct neoplasms that, in most cases, originate from the clonal expansion of B cells in the …

The role of epigenetic mechanisms in B cell lymphoma pathogenesis

L Venturutti, AM Melnick - Annual Review of Cancer Biology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The capacity of the adaptive immune system to respond to antigenic challenges relies on
rapid diversification, expansion, and functional specialization of mature B cells. To …

[HTML][HTML] Biology of germinal center b cells relating to lymphomagenesis

K Basso - Hemasphere, 2021 - journals.lww.com
The germinal center (GC) reaction is a key feature of adaptive humoral immunity. GCs
represent the site where mature B cells refine their B-cell receptor (BCR) and are selected …

[PDF][PDF] Enhancer sequence variants and transcription-factor deregulation synergize to construct pathogenic regulatory circuits in B-cell lymphoma

OI Koues, RA Kowalewski, LW Chang, SC Pyfrom… - Immunity, 2015 - cell.com
Most B-cell lymphomas arise in the germinal center (GC), where humoral immune
responses evolve from potentially oncogenic cycles of mutation, proliferation, and clonal …

The germinal center in the pathogenesis of B cell lymphomas

L Pasqualucci - Hematological Oncology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The adaptive immune system has evolved to allow effective responses against a virtually
unlimited number of invading pathogens. This process requires the transient formation of …

Hierarchy in somatic mutations arising during genomic evolution and progression of follicular lymphoma

MR Green, AJ Gentles, RV Nair, JM Irish… - Blood, The Journal …, 2013 - ashpublications.org
Follicular lymphoma (FL) is currently incurable using conventional chemotherapy or
immunotherapy regimes, compelling new strategies. Advances in high-throughput …