Subsets with restricted immunoglobulin gene rearrangement features indicate a role for antigen selection in the development of chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Blood
Gerard TobinRichard Rosenquist

Abstract

We recently identified a chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) subgroup using the immunoglobulin variable heavy-chain (V(H)) gene V(H)3-21 with almost identical heavy-chain complementarity determining region 3s (HCDR3s) and preferential variable light-chain (V(L)) gene usage, suggesting recognition of a common antigen epitope in this subset. To further explore the B-cell receptors (BCRs) in CLL, we characterized 407 V(H) rearrangements amplified from 346 CLLs regarding V(H), diversity (D), and joining (J(H)) gene usage and performed multiple alignment of the HCDR3 sequences. These analyses revealed 3 small subsets (2 V(H)1-69 groups, 7 cases; and 1 V(H)1-2 group, 5 cases) with highly restricted HCDR3 features including identical V(H)/D/J(H) usage, HCDR3 lengths, and shared N-sequences, in addition to the V(H)3-21 group (22 cases). Furthermore, another 3 groups (9 V(H)1-3(+) cases, 3 V(H)1-18(+) cases, and 5 V(H)4-39(+) cases) had essentially identical V(H)/D/J(H) use and similar HCDR3 lengths but less conserved N-regions. Analysis in all 6 of these subgroups showed restriction in V(L) gene use, whereas no association between V(H) and V(L) usage was found in cases without HCDR3 similarities. Altogether, structurally similar HCDR3s ...Continue Reading

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