VDJ recombination of T cell receptor and immunoglobulin loci occurs in immature lymphoid cells. Although the molecular mechanisms of DNA cleavage and ligation have become more clear, it is not understood what controls which target loci undergo rearrangement. In interleukin 7 receptor (IL-7R)alpha-/- murine thymocytes, it has been shown that rearrangement of the T cell receptor (TCR)-gamma locus...

At diagnosis, clonal gene rearrangement probes [retinoic acid receptor (RAR)-alpha, major breakpoint cluster region (M-bcr), immunoglobulin (Ig)-JH, T cell receptor (TcR)-beta, myeloid lymphoid leukemia (MLL) or cytokine genes (GM-CSF, G-CSF, IL-3)] were detected in bone marrow samples from 71 of 153 patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) (46%): in 41 patients with primary AML (pAML) (5...

Here we show that suppression of VH-DJH rearrangement in mice bearing a mu heavy (H) chain transgene (mu-tg mice) is associated with an extended period of DH-JH rearrangement, the first step of Immunoglobulin H chain gene rearrangement. Whereas DH-JH rearrangement is normally initiated and completed at the pro-B cell stage, in mu-tg mice it continues beyond this stage and occurs most frequently...

Activation of the MET protooncogene by a rearrangement involving the fusion of TPR and MET specific gene sequences has been observed in a human osteosarcoma cell line (HOS) treated in vitro with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG). No information has been available about the possible occurrence of this rearrangement in human tumors. To facilitate rapid screening of human cell lines and ...

Abstract Introduction/Objective IRF4 is a regulatory protein which required at several stages of B and T cell development differentiation. Rearrangements the chromosomal region have been detected in various neoplasms including distinct entity WHO tumor classification for diffuse large lymphoma (DLBCL) with rearrangement another an rearranged subtype CD30-positive lymphoproliferative disorder, l...

Productive gene rearrangement at the T-cell receptor (TCR) beta-chain locus facilitates formation of the "pre-TCR," a molecular complex that is important for the subsequent development of alpha beta T cells. The transition of thymocytes from a population of cells undergoing TCRbeta chain genes to a population enriched in cells with productively rearranged TCRbeta chain genes is known as "beta s...

in the TCR␤ locus abolished both germline transcription of the D␤-J␤ gene segments and ␤ gene rearrangement (Mathieu et al., 2000). Deletion of either the Ig␬ intronic Summary enhancer or the 3Ј enhancer had modest effects on rearrangement, whereas expression was largely normal Many mammalian genes, including those encoding an-in both cases (Xu et al., 1996; Gorman et al., 1996). In the tigen r...

objective: group a rotaviruses (garv) are responsible for the vast majority of severe diarrhea worldwide that kills an estimated 600,000-870,000 children annually. since infantile gastroenteritis is a main health problem, therefore diagnosis and treatment of this disease is crucial. gene rearrangements have been detected in vitro during serial passages of the virus at a high multiplicity of inf...

BACKGROUND Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene rearrangement is detected in 3% to 13% of non-small cell lung carcinoma patients, and these patients benefit from ALK inhibitors. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence, the clinical and histological characteristics and the treatment outcomes of ALK-rearranged lung adenocarcinoma using immunohistochemistry (IHC) IHC, reverse transc...

BACKGROUND Immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) gene rearrangement test is a standard tool in diagnosing B-cell lymphoma. The BIOMED-2 multiplex PCR protocol has become the most commonly used laboratory method for detecting clonal IgH gene rearrangement. However, post-PCR procedure requires manual transfer of PCR product for analysis and is time-consuming. A novel strategy using LightCycler to cont...