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ArticleLeukemia2017

Restrictions in the T-cell repertoire of chronic lymphocytic leukemia: high-throughput immunoprofiling supports selection by shared antigenic elements.

A Vardi, E Vlachonikola, M Karypidou, E Stalika, V Bikos, K Gemenetzi, C Maramis, A Siorenta, A Anagnostopoulos, S Pospisilova and 4 more

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Article in Leukemia, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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14 authors at 7 institutions in 3 countries.

A VardiInstitute of Applied Biosciences, CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.
E VlachonikolaInstitute of Applied Biosciences, CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-4609-9977
M KarypidouInstitute of Applied Biosciences, CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.
E StalikaInstitute of Applied Biosciences, CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.
V BikosCEITEC, Masaryk University and University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic.
K GemenetziInstitute of Applied Biosciences, CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.
C MaramisInstitute of Applied Biosciences, CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.
A SiorentaImmunology and National Tissue Typing Center, General Hospital of Athens 'G. Gennimatas', Athens, Thessaloniki, Greece.
A AnagnostopoulosHematology Department and HCT Unit, G. Papanicolaou Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.
S PospisilovaCEITEC, Masaryk University and University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic.
N MaglaverasInstitute of Applied Biosciences, CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.
I ChouvardaInstitute of Applied Biosciences, CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.
K StamatopoulosInstitute of Applied Biosciences, CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.
A HadzidimitriouInstitute of Applied Biosciences, CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas · GRAristotle University of Thessaloniki · GRCentral European Institute of Technology – Masaryk University · CZUppsala University · SEGeneral Hospital of Athens G. Genimatas · GRG. Papanikolaou General Hospital · GRUniversity of Crete · GR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunoglobulin (IG) gene repertoire restrictions strongly support antigen selection in the pathogenesis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Given the emerging multifarious interactions between CLL and bystander T cells, we sought to determine whether antigen(s) are also selecting T cells in CLL. We performed a large-scale, next-generation sequencing (NGS) study of the T-cell repertoire, focusing on major stereotyped subsets representing CLL subgroups with undisputed antigenic drive, but also included patients carrying non-subset IG rearrangements to seek for T-cell immunogenetic signatures ubiquitous in CLL. Considering the inherent limitations of NGS, we deployed bioinformatics algorithms for qualitative curation of T-cell receptor rearrangements, and included multiple types of controls. Overall, we document the clonal architecture of the T-cell repertoire in CLL. These T-cell clones persist and further expand overtime, and can be shared by different patients, most especially patients belonging to the same stereotyped subset. Notably, these shared clonotypes appear to be disease-specific, as they are found in neither public databases nor healthy controls. Altogether, these findings indicate that antigen drive likely underlies T-cell expansions in CLL and may be acting in a CLL subset-specific context. Whether these are the same antigens interacting with the malignant clone or tumor-derived antigens remains to be elucidated.

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AgedAntigens, NeoplasmCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCellular MicroenvironmentGene Rearrangement, T-LymphocyteGenes, ImmunoglobulinHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansLeukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-CellT-LymphocytesAntigens, Neoplasm

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