Clonal expansion and somatic hypermutation of V (H) genes of B cells from cerebrospinal fluid in multiple sclerosis.

Y Qin, P Duquette, Y Zhang, P Talbot… - The Journal of …, 1998 - Am Soc Clin Investig
clonally expanded CSF B cells in MS patients demonstrated the preferential usage of the VH
IV family. There were numerous somatic … a high frequency of clonally expanded B cells that …

Antigen-driven clonal proliferation, somatic hypermutation, and selection of B lymphocytes infiltrating human ductal breast carcinomas

S Nzula, JJ Going, DI Stott - Cancer research, 2003 - AACR
… Subsequent encounter with antigen in the appropriate cellular environment drives B-cell
clonal proliferation and somatic hypermutation in germinal centers of secondary lymphoid …

Somatic hypermutation analysis for improved identification of B cell clonal families from next-generation sequencing data

N Nouri, SH Kleinstein - PLoS computational biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
… Adaptive immune receptor repertoire sequencing (AIRR-Seq) offers the possibility of identifying
and tracking B cell clonal expansions during adaptive immune responses. Members of a …

B cell clonal expansion and somatic hypermutation of Ig variable heavy chain genes in the synovial membrane of patients with osteoarthritis

RR Da, Y Qin, D Baeten, Y Zhang - The Journal of Immunology, 2007 - journals.aai.org
clonal and oligoclonal expansion of these synovial B cells. These clonally expanded B cell
clones are mainly T cell-dependent, postgerminal center (GC) B cells with Ag-driven somatic

Expansion and somatic hypermutation of B-cell clones in rejected human kidney grafts

J Ferdman, F Porcheray, B Gao, C Moore… - …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
… We provide here evidence that B-cell clones expand and undergo SHMs in situ. However,
the even distribution of nonsilent SHM in high-frequency graft sequences together with the …

Marginal-zone B cells in the human lymph node and spleen show somatic hypermutations and display clonal expansion

A Tierens, J Delabie, L Michiels… - Blood, The Journal …, 1999 - ashpublications.org
… These data indicate that clonal expansion takes place in the human marginal zone… somatic
hypermutation occurs during clonal expansion in the marginal zone. Alternatively, the somatic

Clonal selection in the germinal centre by regulated proliferation and hypermutation

AD Gitlin, Z Shulman, MC Nussenzweig - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
… B cells governs the extent of clonal expansion, we titrated the … selection, proliferation and
somatic hypermutation in the GC, … H 4 for somatic mutations, because this region is targeted for …

Replication stress triggers microsatellite destabilization and hypermutation leading to clonal expansion in vitro

Y Matsuno, Y Atsumi, A Shimizu, K Katayama… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
hypermutation are triggered by replication stress in an MMR-deficient background, enabling
clonal expansion of … MSI and hypermutation efficiently lead to clonal expansion of cells with …

Monitoring and interpreting the intrinsic features of somatic hypermutation

MS Neuberger, MK Ehrenstein, N Klix… - Immunological …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
… and, owing to the clonal stability of HPF recruitment, the transgenes in these cells may
incorporate multiple somatic mutations during clonal expansion (Fig. 7). This line of thinking has …

Somatic hypermutation in normal and transformed human B cells

U Klien, T Goasens, M Fischer, H Kanzler… - Immunological …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
… It is on the one hand the dramatic clonal proliferation of GC B cells, and on the other the
genetic changes a B cell encounters within the GC tnicroenvironment, which increase the risk of …