Enhancing B-Cell Malignancies—On Repurposing Enhancer Activity towards Cancer

ME Kasprzyk, W Sura, A Dzikiewicz-Krawczyk - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary B-cell malignancies are a heterogenous group of lymphomas and
leukemias and are the 6th most common cancer-related cause of death. Apart from several …

The Eμ enhancer region influences H chain expression and B cell fate without impacting IgVH repertoire and immune response in vivo

M Marquet, A Garot, S Bender, C Carrion… - The Journal of …, 2014 - journals.aai.org
The IgH intronic enhancer region Eμ is a combination of both a 220-bp core enhancer
element and two 310–350-bp flanking scaffold/matrix attachment regions named MARs Eμ …

[HTML][HTML] The IgH 3′ regulatory region governs μ chain transcription in mature B lymphocytes and the B cell fate

A Saintamand, P Rouaud, A Garot, F Saad, C Carrion… - Oncotarget, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We report that the IgH 3′ regulatory region (3′ RR) has no role on μ chain transcription
and pre-BCR expression in B cell progenitors. In contrast, analysis of heterozygous IgH a …

Long-read sequencing unveils IGH-DUX4 translocation into the silenced IGH allele in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

L Tian, Y Shao, S Nance, J Dang, B Xu, X Ma… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
IGH@ proto-oncogene translocation is a common oncogenic event in lymphoid lineage
cancers such as B-ALL, lymphoma and multiple myeloma. Here, to investigate the interplay …

[HTML][HTML] Core regions in immunoglobulin heavy chain enhancers essential for survival of non-Hodgkin lymphoma cells are identified by a CRISPR interference screen

ME Kasprzyk, W Sura, M Podralska… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Chromosomal translocations in non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) result in activation of
oncogenes by placing them under the regulation of immunoglobulin heavy chain (IGH) …

Allergen-Specific Treg Cells Upregulated by Lung-Stage S. japonicum Infection Alleviates Allergic Airway Inflammation

Z Li, W Zhang, F Luo, J Li, W Yang, B Zhu… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Schistosoma japonicum infection showed protective effects against allergic airway
inflammation (AAI). However, controversial findings exist especially regarding the timing of …

[PDF][PDF] Enhancing B-Cell Malignancies—On Repurposing Enhancer Activity Towards Cancer. Cancers 2021, 13, 3270

ME Kasprzyk, W Sura, A Dzikiewicz-Krawczyk - 2021 - researchgate.net
B-cell lymphomas and leukemias derive from B cells at various stages of maturation and are
the 6th most common cancer-related cause of death. While the role of several oncogenes …

The 3'-Jα Region of the TCRα Locus Bears Gene Regulatory Activity in Thymic and Peripheral T Cells

M Kučerová-Levisohn, S Knirr, RI Mejia, BD Ortiz - Plos one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Much progress has been made in understanding the important cis-mediated controls on
mouse TCRα gene function, including identification of the Eα enhancer and TCRα locus …

Multiple factors influence the contribution of individual immunoglobulin light chain genes to the naïve antibody repertoire

SP Fitzsimmons, AG Aydanian, KJ Clark, MA Shapiro - BMC immunology, 2014 - Springer
Background The naïve antibody repertoire is initially dependent upon the number of
germline V (D) J genes and the ability of recombined heavy and light chains to pair …

Allergen specific Treg upregulated by lung-stage schistosome infection alleviates allergic airway inflammation via inhibiting IgE secretion

Z Li, W Zhang, F Luo, J Li, W Yang, B Zhu, Q Wu… - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Schistosome infection showed protective effects against allergic airway inflammation (AAI).
However, controversial findings exist especially regarding the timing of helminth infection …