Detection of immunoglobulin heavy
chain gene rearrangements in classic hodgkin lymphoma using commercially available BIOMED - 2 primers.
In the fetal liver hybridomas, which were constructed from fetal liver cells and a tumor cell, no light
chain gene rearrangement was observed, whereas in the 70Z / 3 cell line a kappa light chain rearrangement probably occurred.
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Two types of immature B cells, namely fetal liver hybridomas and the leukemic cell line 70Z / 3, both of which have cytoplasmic mu
chains but no light
chains, were examined for DNA
rearrangements of their light
chain and heavy
chain immunoglobulin
genes.
The results suggest that, although the lack of light
chain synthesis can be due to a lack of
gene rearrangement, there may also be transcriptional regulation, which may also be important for the expression of light
chain immunoglobulins in immature B cells.
They then looked for DNA breaks associated with receptor
gene rearrangement by using a version of the polymerase
chain reaction that amplifies broken DNA.
She found, for example, that by using a technique called the polymerase
chain reaction to amplify
genes, she could detect mutations or
rearrangements in cancer - specific
genes in irradiated tissue that had turned cancerous.
MRD was assessed using polymerase
chain reaction analysis of Ig / TCR
gene rearrangements.
The antigen receptor
genes that undergo
rearrangements are the immunoglobulin heavy
chain (IGH) and light
chain loci (IGK and IGL) in B cells, and the T cell receptor
gene loci (TRA, TRB, TRG and TRD) in T cells.