Immunoglobulin Gene Sequence Analysis In Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: From Patient Material To Sequence Interpretation

Autor: Lesley-Ann Sutton, Frederic Davi, Anton W. Langerak, Andreas Agathangelidis, Cristina Tresoldi, Kostas Stamatopoulos, Paolo Ghia, Richard Rosenquist, Anastasia Hadzidimitriou, Chrysoula Belessi
Přispěvatelé: Agathangelidis, A., Sutton, L. A., Hadzidimitriou, A., Tresoldi, C., Langerak, A. W., Belessi, C., Davi, F., Rosenquist, R., Stamatopoulos, K., Ghia, P., Immunology
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Immunoglobulin gene
Sequence analysis
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
General Chemical Engineering
Immunoglobulin Variable Region
Somatic hypermutation
Computational biology
Cancer research
Biology
General Biochemistry
Genetics and Molecular Biology

Issue 141
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Sequence Analysis
Protein

medicine
Immunoglobulin
Humans
Neoplastic transformation
Gene
Immunoglobulin heavy variable (IGHV)
International immunogenetics information system (IMGT)
B cell
Medicinsk genetik
B-Lymphocytes
General Immunology and Microbiology
Base Sequence
Genes
Immunoglobulin

General Neuroscience
Nucleic acid sequence
International ImMunoGene Tics information system (IMGT)
medicine.disease
Leukemia
Lymphocytic
Chronic
B-Cell

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)
Complementarity determining region 3 (CDR3)
medicine.anatomical_structure
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Somatic hypermutation (SHM)
Medical Genetics
030215 immunology
Zdroj: Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), 141:e57787. MYJoVE Corporation
ISSN: 1940-087X
Popis: During B cell maturation, the complex process of immunoglobulin (IG) gene V(D)J recombination coupled with somatic hypermutation (SHM) gives rise to a unique DNA sequence within each individual B cell. Since B cell malignancies result from the clonal expansion of a single cell, IG genes represent a unique molecular signature common to all the malignant cells within an individual patient; thus, IG gene rearrangements can be used as clonal markers. In addition to serving as an important clonal identifier, the IG gene sequence can act as a 'molecular timeline' since it is associated with specific developmental stages and hence reflects the history of the B cell involved in the neoplastic transformation. Moreover, for certain malignancies, in particular chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), the IG gene sequence holds prognostic and potentially predictive capabilities. That said, extrapolating meaningful conclusions from IG gene sequence analysis would be impossible if robust methods and tools were not available to aid in their analysis. This article, drawing on the vast experience of the European Research Initiative on CLL (ERIC), details the technical aspects and essential requirements necessary to ensure reliable and reproducible IG gene sequence analysis in CLL, a test that is now recommended for all CLL patients prior to treatment. More specifically, the various analytical stages are described ranging from the identification of the clonotypic IG gene rearrangement and the determination of the nucleotide sequence to the accurate clinical interpretation of the IG gene sequence data. De två första författarna delar förstaförfattarskapet.
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