Publication Date:
2011-03-04
Description:
Chromosomal translocations are critically involved in the molecular pathogenesis of B-cell lymphomas, and highly recurrent and specific rearrangements have defined distinct molecular subtypes linked to unique clinicopathological features. In contrast, several well-characterized lymphoma entities still lack disease-defining translocation events. To identify novel fusion transcripts resulting from translocations, we investigated two Hodgkin lymphoma cell lines by whole-transcriptome paired-end sequencing (RNA-seq). Here we show a highly expressed gene fusion involving the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II transactivator CIITA (MHC2TA) in KM-H2 cells. In a subsequent evaluation of 263 B-cell lymphomas, we also demonstrate that genomic CIITA breaks are highly recurrent in primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma (38%) and classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) (15%). Furthermore, we find that CIITA is a promiscuous partner of various in-frame gene fusions, and we report that CIITA gene alterations impact survival in primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL). As functional consequences of CIITA gene fusions, we identify downregulation of surface HLA class II expression and overexpression of ligands of the receptor molecule programmed cell death 1 (CD274/PDL1 and CD273/PDL2). These receptor-ligand interactions have been shown to impact anti-tumour immune responses in several cancers, whereas decreased MHC class II expression has been linked to reduced tumour cell immunogenicity. Thus, our findings suggest that recurrent rearrangements of CIITA may represent a novel genetic mechanism underlying tumour-microenvironment interactions across a spectrum of lymphoid cancers.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3902849/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3902849/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Steidl, Christian -- Shah, Sohrab P -- Woolcock, Bruce W -- Rui, Lixin -- Kawahara, Masahiro -- Farinha, Pedro -- Johnson, Nathalie A -- Zhao, Yongjun -- Telenius, Adele -- Neriah, Susana Ben -- McPherson, Andrew -- Meissner, Barbara -- Okoye, Ujunwa C -- Diepstra, Arjan -- van den Berg, Anke -- Sun, Mark -- Leung, Gillian -- Jones, Steven J -- Connors, Joseph M -- Huntsman, David G -- Savage, Kerry J -- Rimsza, Lisa M -- Horsman, Douglas E -- Staudt, Louis M -- Steidl, Ulrich -- Marra, Marco A -- Gascoyne, Randy D -- 178536/Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada -- R00 CA131503/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R00CA131503/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- T32 GM007288/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Mar 17;471(7338):377-81. doi: 10.1038/nature09754. Epub 2011 Mar 2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Centre for Lymphoid Cancers and the Centre for Translational and Applied Genomics, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5Z4E6, Canada.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21368758" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Antigens, CD/genetics/metabolism
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Antigens, CD274
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Antigens, CD80/genetics/metabolism
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Base Sequence
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Cell Line, Tumor
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Chromosome Breakpoints
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Gene Expression Profiling
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Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
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Hodgkin Disease/genetics
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Humans
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In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
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Jurkat Cells
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Lymphocyte Activation
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Lymphoma, B-Cell/*genetics
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Nuclear Proteins/*genetics
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Oncogene Proteins, Fusion/*genetics
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Programmed Cell Death 1 Ligand 2 Protein
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RNA, Neoplasm/genetics
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T-Lymphocytes/immunology/metabolism/pathology
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Tissue Array Analysis
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Trans-Activators/*genetics
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Translocation, Genetic/*genetics
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Tumor Microenvironment
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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