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Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 169, 613-624, Copyright © 1989 by Rockefeller University Press

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Translocation t(14;18) in B cell lymphomas as a cause for defective immunoglobulin production

D de Jong, BM Voetdijk, GJ Van Ommen, JC Kluin-Nelemans, GC Beverstock and PM Kluin
Department of Pathology, University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Although follicle center cell (FCC) lymphomas represent mature B cells, a considerable percentage do not have detectable Ig production. We have used Southern blotting and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to study the involvement of translocations t(14;18) and t(8;14) in causing defective Ig production in 16 Ig- FCC-derived lymphomas and three Ig- B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemias. In 6 of 19 cases, a t(14;18) was present with the other allele either deleted or in germline. In two cases a t(14;18) and a t(8;14) affected both Ig alleles, as confirmed by karyotyping. In two other cases, rearrangement of both bcl-2 on chromosome 18 and c-myc on chromosome 8 were found as well. Although cytogenetic proof was not available, the latter was probably involved in t(8;14). Restriction map analysis of one more case showed rearrangement on the pseudo-JH3 gene on one allele and t(14;18) on the other. Thus, in 11 of 19 cases, defective Ig H chain production could be explained by the inactivation of both Ig H chain genes due to translocation of one allele, in combination with deletions or defective rearrangements of the other allele. In contrast, in 28 of 30 Ig+ lymphomas, one functional Ig H chain allele was found, either in, or not in, combination with t(14;18). In two cases a single rearranged Ig H chain allele was found in combination with rearrangement of bcl-2. No comigration of the single Ig rearrangement with bcl-2, however, was found both by Southern blotting and PCR, suggesting a variant bcl-2 translocation, which leaves the Ig H chain allele functionally intact.
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