ATM-deficient B cell lymphomas

ABSTRACT: Ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM) kinase plays a central role in maintaining genomic integrity. In both humans and mice, ATM deficiency is associated with an increased incidence of lymphoid cancers that are primarily T cell in origin. We demonstrate here that when T cells are removed as targets for lymphomagenesis and as mediators of immune surveillance, ATM-deficient mice exclusively develop early onset IgM+ B cell lymphomas that by histology and gene expression profiling resemble the activated B cell-like (ABC) subset of human diffuse large B cell lymphomas (DLBCL). These ATM-deficient B cell tumors show considerable chromosomal instability and a recurrent genomic amplification of a 4.48 Mb region on chromosome 18 that contains Malt1 and is orthologous to a region similarly amplified i

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

SUBMITTER: Louis Staudt 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-68505 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress