Circulating tumor DNA in B-cell lymphoma: technical advances, clinical applications, and perspectives for translational research

EM Lauer, J Mutter, F Scherer - Leukemia, 2022 - nature.com
Noninvasive disease monitoring and risk stratification by circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA)
profiling has become a potential novel strategy for patient management in B-cell lymphoma …

Activation induced cytidine deaminase: An old friend with new faces

E Çakan, G Gunaydin - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Activation induced cytidine deaminase (AID) protein is a member of APOBEC family. AID
converts cytidine to uracil, which is a key step for somatic hypermutation (SHM) and class …

Liquid biopsy in hematological malignancies: current and future applications

D Talotta, M Almasri, C Cosentino, G Gaidano… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The assessment of the cancer mutational profile is crucial for patient management,
stratification, and therapeutic decisions. At present, in hematological malignancies with a …

Critical influences on the pathogenesis of follicular lymphoma

R Küppers, FK Stevenson - Blood, The Journal of the American …, 2018 - ashpublications.org
The development of follicular lymphoma (FL) from a founder B cell with an upregulation of B-
cell lymphoma 2 (BCL2), via the t (14; 18) translocation, to a proliferating clone, poised to …

Acquisition of a glycosylated B-cell receptor drives follicular lymphoma toward a dark zone phenotype

CAM Van Bergen, SL Kloet, E Quinten… - Blood …, 2023 - ashpublications.org
Follicular lymphoma (FL) is an indolent malignancy of mature B cells that are arrested at the
germinal center (GC) stage. 1, 2 In physiological GC reactions, B cells undergo clonal …

Subclonal TP53 mutations are frequent and predict resistance to radioimmunotherapy in follicular lymphoma

WR Burack, H Li, D Adlowitz, JM Spence… - Blood …, 2023 - ashpublications.org
Although TP53 is commonly mutated in transformed follicular lymphoma, mutations are
reported in< 5% of pretreatment follicular lymphoma (FL) specimens. We assayed archival …

AID in chronic lymphocytic leukemia: induction and action during disease progression

P Oppezzo, M Navarrete, N Chiorazzi - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The enzyme activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) initiates somatic hypermutation
(SHM) and class switch recombination (CSR) of immunoglobulin (Ig) genes, critical actions …

High-risk follicular lymphomas harbour more somatic mutations including those in the AID-motif

T Tsukamoto, M Nakano, R Sato, H Adachi, M Kiyota… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We investigated clinical and genetic characteristics of high-risk follicular lymphoma (FL), that
lacked evidence of large cell transformation at diagnosis, in the rituximab era. First, we …

[HTML][HTML] Acquired N-linked glycosylation motifs in B-cell receptors of primary cutaneous B-cell lymphoma and the normal B-cell repertoire

MT Koning, E Quinten, WH Zoutman… - Journal of Investigative …, 2019 - Elsevier
Primary cutaneous follicle center lymphoma (PCFCL) is a rare mature B-cell lymphoma with
an unknown etiology. PCFCL resembles follicular lymphoma (FL) by cytomorphologic and …

CACTUS: integrating clonal architecture with genomic clustering and transcriptome profiling of single tumor cells

SD Shafighi, SM Kiełbasa, J Sepúlveda-Yáñez… - Genome medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background Drawing genotype-to-phenotype maps in tumors is of paramount importance for
understanding tumor heterogeneity. Assignment of single cells to their tumor clones of origin …