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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-3-19
pubmed:abstractText
The t(14;18)(q32;q21) involving the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus (IGH) and the MALT1 gene is a recurrent abnormality in mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphomas. However, the nucleotide sequence of only one t(14;18)-positive MALT lymphoma has been reported so far. We here report the molecular characterization of the IGH-MALT1 fusion products in 5 new cases of t(14;18)-positive MALT lymphomas. Similar to the IGH-associated translocations in follicular and mantle cell lymphomas, the IGH-MALT1 junctions in MALT lymphoma showed all features of a recombination signal sequence-guided V(D)J-mediated translocation at the IGH locus. Furthermore, analogous to follicular and mantle cell lymphoma, templated nucleotides (T-nucleotides) were identified at the t(14;18)/IGH-MALT1 breakpoint junctions. On chromosome 18, we identified a novel major breakpoint region in MALT1 upstream of its coding region. Moreover, the presence of duplications of MALT1 nucleotides in one case suggests an underlying staggered DNA-break process not consistent with V(D)J-mediated recombination. The molecular characteristics of the t(14;18)/IGH-MALT1 resemble those found in the t(14;18)/IGH-BCL2 in follicular lymphoma and t(11;14)/CCND1-IGH in mantle cell lymphoma, suggesting that these translocations could be generated by common pathomechanisms involving illegitimate V(D)J-mediated recombination on IGH as well as new synthesis of T-nucleotides and nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) or alternative NHEJ repair pathways on the IGH-translocation partner.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1528-0020
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
18
pubmed:volume
115
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2214-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-4-30
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Caspases, pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Chromosome Breakpoints, pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Chromosomes, Human, Pair 14, pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Chromosomes, Human, Pair 18, pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Genetic Loci, pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains, pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Lymphoma, B-Cell, Marginal Zone, pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Lymphoma, Follicular, pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell, pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Mutagenesis, Insertional, pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Neoplasm Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Nucleotides, pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Oncogene Proteins, Fusion, pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Templates, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:19965626-Translocation, Genetic
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
The t(14;18)(q32;q21)/IGH-MALT1 translocation in MALT lymphomas contains templated nucleotide insertions and a major breakpoint region similar to follicular and mantle cell lymphoma.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Oncology and Hematology, BMT with Section of Pneumology, Hubertus Wald Tumorzentrum-University Cancer Center Hamburg, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. murga@uke.unihamburg.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't