Proteomics of fibrin amyloid microclots in long COVID/post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) shows many entrapped pro-inflammatory molecules that may also …

A Kruger, M Vlok, S Turner, C Venter… - Cardiovascular …, 2022 - Springer
Background Post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), also now known as long COVID,
has become a major global health and economic burden. Previously, we provided evidence …

Restricted, canonical, stereotyped and convergent immunoglobulin responses

CJH Dunand, PC Wilson - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
It is becoming evident that B-cell responses to particular epitopes or in particular contexts
can be highly convergent at the molecular level. That is, depending on the epitope targeted …

Old and new facts and speculations on the role of the B cell receptor in the origin of chronic lymphocytic leukemia

D Bagnara, AN Mazzarello, F Ghiotto… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The engagement of the B cell receptor (BcR) on the surface of leukemic cells represents a
key event in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) since it can lead to the maintenance and …

Higher-order connections between stereotyped subsets: implications for improved patient classification in CLL

A Agathangelidis, A Chatzidimitriou… - Blood, The Journal …, 2021 - ashpublications.org
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is characterized by the existence of subsets of patients
with (quasi) identical, stereotyped B-cell receptor (BcR) immunoglobulins. Patients in certain …

Over 20% of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia carry stereotyped receptors: pathogenetic implications and clinical correlations

K Stamatopoulos, C Belessi, C Moreno, M Boudjograh… - Blood, 2007 - ashpublications.org
The chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) immunoglobulin repertoire is biased and
characterized by the existence of subsets of cases with closely homologous (“stereotyped”) …

Mutation-specific CAR T cells as precision therapy for IGLV3-21R110 expressing high-risk chronic lymphocytic leukemia

F Märkl, C Schultheiß, M Ali, SS Chen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The concept of precision cell therapy targeting tumor-specific mutations is appealing but
requires surface-exposed neoepitopes, which is a rarity in cancer. B cell receptors (BCR) of …

ERIC recommendations on IGHV gene mutational status analysis in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

P Ghia, K Stamatopoulos, C Belessi, C Moreno… - Leukemia, 2007 - nature.com
In recent years, determination of the mutational status of rearranged immunoglobulin heavy
chain variable (IGHV) genes in large series of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia …

A mutated B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia subset that recognizes and responds to fungi

R Hoogeboom, KPM van Kessel… - Journal of Experimental …, 2013 - rupress.org
B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), the most common leukemia in adults, is a clonal
expansion of CD5+ CD19+ B lymphocytes. Two types of CLLs are being distinguished as …

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia antibodies with a common stereotypic rearrangement recognize nonmuscle myosin heavy chain IIA

CC Chu, R Catera, K Hatzi, XJ Yan… - Blood, The Journal …, 2008 - ashpublications.org
Leukemic B lymphocytes of a large group of unrelated chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)
patients express an unmutated heavy chain immunoglobulin variable (V) region encoded by …

IGLV3-21*01 is an inherited risk factor for CLL through the acquisition of a single-point mutation enabling autonomous BCR signaling

PC Maity, M Bilal, MT Koning… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The prognosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) depends on different markers,
including cytogenetic aberrations, oncogenic mutations, and mutational status of the …