Role of Bruton's tyrosine kinase in B cells and malignancies

S Pal Singh, F Dammeijer, RW Hendriks - Molecular cancer, 2018 - Springer
Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) is a non-receptor kinase that plays a crucial role in oncogenic
signaling that is critical for proliferation and survival of leukemic cells in many B cell …

B-cell biology and development

K Pieper, B Grimbacher, H Eibel - Journal of Allergy and Clinical …, 2013 - Elsevier
B cells develop from hematopoietic precursor cells in an ordered maturation and selection
process. Extensive studies with many different mouse mutants provided fundamental …

Targeting Bruton's tyrosine kinase in B cell malignancies

RW Hendriks, S Yuvaraj, LP Kil - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2014 - nature.com
Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) is a key component of B cell receptor (BCR) signalling and
functions as an important regulator of cell proliferation and cell survival in various B cell …

Long noncoding RNA MIR17HG promotes colorectal cancer progression via miR-17-5p

J Xu, Q Meng, X Li, H Yang, J Xu, N Gao, H Sun, S Wu… - Cancer research, 2019 - AACR
Immune dysregulation plays a vital role in colorectal cancer initiation and progression. Long
noncoding RNAs (lncRNA) exhibit multiple functions including regulation of gene …

The SYK tyrosine kinase: a crucial player in diverse biological functions

A Mócsai, J Ruland, VLJ Tybulewicz - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2010 - nature.com
Spleen tyrosine kinase (SYK) is known to have a crucial role in adaptive immune receptor
signalling. However, recent reports indicate that SYK also mediates other, unexpectedly …

Checkpoints that control B cell development

F Melchers - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2015 - Am Soc Clin Investig
B cells differentiate from pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells (pHSCs) in a series of distinct
stages. During early embryonic development, pHSCs migrate into the fetal liver, where they …

New insights into pre-BCR and BCR signalling with relevance to B cell malignancies

RC Rickert - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2013 - nature.com
The B cell receptor (BCR) and its precursor (pre-BCR) control B cell homeostasis,
differentiation and function. Moreover, aberrant pre-BCR and BCR signalling have a central …

Regulation of B-cell proliferation and differentiation by pre-B-cell receptor signalling

S Herzog, M Reth, H Jumaa - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2009 - nature.com
The pre-B-cell receptor (pre-BCR) is expressed following the productive recombination of
the immunoglobulin heavy chain gene. Signals through the pre-BCR are required for …

B cell signaling and fate decision

T Kurosaki, H Shinohara, Y Baba - Annual review of …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Antigen receptors on the surface of B lymphocytes trigger adaptive immune responses after
encountering their cognate antigens but also control a series of antigen-independent …

The human and mouse complement of SH2 domain proteins—establishing the boundaries of phosphotyrosine signaling

BA Liu, K Jablonowski, M Raina, M Arcé, T Pawson… - Molecular cell, 2006 - cell.com
SH2 domains are interaction modules uniquely dedicated to the recognition of
phosphotyrosine sites and are embedded in proteins that couple protein-tyrosine kinases to …