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ArticleBlood2017

Tonic B-cell receptor signaling in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Ondrej Havranek, Jingda Xu, Stefan Köhrer, Zhiqiang Wang, Lisa Becker, Justin M Comer, Jared Henderson, Wencai Ma, John Man Chun Ma, Jason R Westin and 8 more

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Article in Blood, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers.

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68citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

68 citing papers in PubMed, 115 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ondrej HavranekDepartment of Lymphoma and Myeloma.ORCID 0000-0001-5826-3557
Jingda XuDepartment of Lymphoma and Myeloma.
Stefan KöhrerDepartment of Leukemia.
Zhiqiang WangDepartment of Lymphoma and Myeloma.
Lisa BeckerDepartment of Lymphoma and Myeloma.
Justin M ComerDepartment of Lymphoma and Myeloma.
Jared HendersonDepartment of Lymphoma and Myeloma.
Wencai MaDepartment of Lymphoma and Myeloma.
John Man Chun MaDepartment of Lymphoma and Myeloma.
Jason R WestinDepartment of Lymphoma and Myeloma.
Dipanjan GhoshDepartment of Lymphoma and Myeloma.
Nicholas ShinnersDepartment of Lymphoma and Myeloma.
Luhong SunDepartment of Lymphoma and Myeloma.
Allen F YiDepartment of Lymphoma and Myeloma.
Anusha R KarriDepartment of Lymphoma and Myeloma.
Jan A BurgerDepartment of Leukemia.
Tomasz ZalDepartment of Immunology, and.
R Eric DavisDepartment of Lymphoma and Myeloma.ORCID 0000-0001-7311-0065
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · US

Funding

Tumor Evolution and Metastasis ProgramP30CA016672 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI Fabien Delerue · 1985 to 2026
$290.8M
Super-Resolution OMX MicroscropeS10RR029552 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI ZAL, TOMASZ · 2011 to 2011
$1.0M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016672NCRR NIH HHS S10 RR029552
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We used clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/Cas9-mediated genomic modification to investigate B-cell receptor (BCR) signaling in cell lines of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Three manipulations that altered BCR genes without affecting surface BCR levels showed that BCR signaling differs between the germinal center B-cell (GCB) subtype, which is insensitive to Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibition by ibrutinib, and the activated B-cell (ABC) subtype. Replacing antigen-binding BCR regions had no effect on BCR signaling in GCB-DLBCL lines, reflecting this subtype's exclusive use of tonic BCR signaling. Conversely, Y188F mutation in the immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif of CD79A inhibited tonic BCR signaling in GCB-DLBCL lines but did not affect their calcium flux after BCR cross-linking or the proliferation of otherwise-unmodified ABC-DLBCL lines. CD79A-GFP fusion showed BCR clustering or diffuse distribution, respectively, in lines of ABC and GCB subtypes. Tonic BCR signaling acts principally to activate AKT, and forced activation of AKT rescued GCB-DLBCL lines from knockout (KO) of the BCR or 2 mediators of tonic BCR signaling, SYK and CD19. The magnitude and importance of tonic BCR signaling to proliferation and size of GCB-DLBCL lines, shown by the effect of BCR KO, was highly variable; in contrast, pan-AKT KO was uniformly toxic. This discrepancy was explained by finding that BCR KO-induced changes in AKT activity (measured by gene expression, CXCR4 level, and a fluorescent reporter) correlated with changes in proliferation and with baseline BCR surface density. PTEN protein expression and BCR surface density may influence clinical response to therapeutic inhibition of tonic BCR signaling in DLBCL.

Indexed as

Signal TransductionAntigensCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationCluster AnalysisCRISPR-Cas SystemsGene Knockout TechniquesGerminal CenterHumansLymphoma, Large B-Cell, DiffuseMutationProto-Oncogene Proteins c-aktReceptors, Antigen, B-CellAntigensProto-Oncogene Proteins c-aktReceptors, Antigen, B-Cell

Identifiers

PMID28646116
PMCPMC5813722
OpenAlexW2671474439

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