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Bethesda proposals for classification of lymphoid neoplasms in miceHerbert C Morse
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 0760, USA
Blood 100:246-58. 2002..The classification should facilitate communications about mouse models of human lymphoid diseases...
Cells of the marginal zone--origins, function and neoplasiaH C Morse
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Building 7, Room 304, 7 Center Drive MSC 0760, Bethesda, MD 20892 0760, USA
Leuk Res 25:169-78. 2001..Only splenic MZL are seen in mice. A reduced threshold for triggering to proliferation may predispose the marginal zone B cell to neoplasia with mutations in genes regulating apoptosis playing a leading role...
Untying the gordian knot of autoimmunity and b cell lineage lymphomasHerbert C Morse
NIAID, NIAMS, NHLBI, NIH, MD, USA
Autoimmun Rev 3:S10-1. 2004
Biologic and molecular genetic characteristics of a unique MCF virus that is highly leukemogenic in ecotropic virus-negative miceS K Chattopadhyay
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
Virology 168:90-100. 1989..Nucleotide sequence analysis established that the U3 region of each of the two LTRs of clone 15 has a 53-bp duplication which includes "enhancer elements," but that the single LTR of clone 19 has no such duplication...
Retrovirus-induced lymphoproliferation as a model for developing diagnostic criteria for malignant lymphoma in miceT N Fredrickson
Registry of Experimental Cancers, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
Toxicol Pathol 21:219-28. 1993..Thus, the precision of diagnosis of mouse lymphomas can be considerably enhanced by augmenting histopathologic examination with antigenic and molecular characterizations that can define malignant populations...
Ectopic expression of wild-type FGFR3 cooperates with MYC to accelerate development of B-cell lineage neoplasmsA Zingone
Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20889 5105, USA
Leukemia 24:1171-8. 2010..This suggests that dysregulated FGFR3 expression is likely to be essential at least for the early stages of pathogenesis of MM tumors that have a t(4;14) translocation...
Characteristics and contributions of defective, ecotropic, and mink cell focus-inducing viruses involved in a retrovirus-induced immunodeficiency syndrome of miceS K Chattopadhyay
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
J Virol 65:4232-41. 1991..Finally, mRNA crosshybridizing with a probe for BM5d was present in spleen but not kidney cells of uninfected B6 mice...
Differential regulation of germinal center genes, BCL6 and SWAP-70, during the course of MAIDSC F Qi
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 0760, USA
Mol Immunol 36:1043-53. 1999....
Non-Hodgkin lymphomas of miceM Hori
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Blood Cells Mol Dis 27:217-22. 2001..Finally, Burkitt lymphoma does not appear to occur naturally in mice, but it can be induced with appropriately engineered transgenes...
Pentoxifylline decreases brain levels of platelet activating factor in murine AIDSY Sei
Laboratory of Neuroscience, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Eur J Pharmacol 325:81-4. 1997..62; P < 0.01). This study demonstrates that pentoxifylline treatment was effective in decreasing the levels of TNF-alpha in the serum and PAF levels in the brain of mice infected with the LP-BM5 MuLV...
Accelerated development of neurochemical and behavioral deficits in LP-BM5 infected mice with targeted deletions of the IFN-gamma geneE Koustova
Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, Building 8, Room 1A15, MSC 0826, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Neuroimmunol 108:112-21. 2000..These results suggest that the presence of IFN-gamma is necessary at some points in the inflammatory process to protect against neurodegeneration...
Functional and phenotypic alterations in T cell subsets during the course of MAIDS, a murine retrovirus-induced immunodeficiency syndromeH C Morse
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892
J Immunol 143:844-50. 1989..However, this phenotypic change did not appear to correlate with major functional defects...
Efficiency alleles of the Pctr1 modifier locus for plasmacytoma susceptibilityS L Zhang
Laboratory of Genetics, Division of Basic Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Mol Cell Biol 21:310-8. 2001..We propose that the BALB/c susceptibility/modifier locus, Pctr1, is an "efficiency" allele of the p16(INK4a) gene...
IFN consensus sequence binding protein potentiates STAT1-dependent activation of IFNgamma-responsive promoters in macrophagesC Contursi
Laboratory of Molecular Growth Regulation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 97:91-6. 2000....
Accelerated appearance of multiple B cell lymphoma types in NFS/N mice congenic for ecotropic murine leukemia virusesJ W Hartley
The Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 0760, USA
Lab Invest 80:159-69. 2000..The mechanism remains undefined, because only rare rearrangements were detected in several cellular loci previously associated with MuLV insertional mutagenesis...
Regulation of apoptosis in myeloid cells by interferon consensus sequence-binding proteinL Gabriele
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892 0760, USA
J Exp Med 190:411-21. 1999..These data suggest that ICSBP modulates survival of myeloid cells by regulating expression of apoptosis-related genes...
Phenylhydrazine stimulates lymphopoiesis and accelerates Abelson murine leukemia virus-induced pre-B cell lymphomasS P Klinken
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892
J Immunol 139:3091-8. 1987....
Influence of H-2 class II antigens on the development of murine AIDSM Makino
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
J Immunol 152:4157-64. 1994..E alpha d-mediated resistance to MAIDS was associated with decreased levels of the BM5def genome in splenic DNA, suggesting that E alpha genes exert their effect by enhancing antiviral activity...
Combined histologic and molecular features reveal previously unappreciated subsets of lymphoma in AKXD recombinant inbred miceH C Morse
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Room 7/304, 7 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-0760, USA
Leuk Res 25:719-33. 2001..DLCL(HS) were distinguished from true histiocytic lymphomas by the presence of clonal Ig gene rearrangements...
Transformation of murine bone marrow cells with combined v-raf-v-myc oncogenes yields clonally related mature B cells and macrophagesM Principato
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
Mol Cell Biol 10:3562-8. 1990..This system should facilitate studies of developmental relationships in hematopoietic differentiation and analysis of lineage determination...
Disease fingerprinting with cDNA microarrays reveals distinct gene expression profiles in lethal type 1 and type 2 cytokine-mediated inflammatory reactionsK F Hoffmann
Immunobiology Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
FASEB J 15:2545-7. 2001..Moreover, they illustrate the potential of genome-wide approaches for generating comprehensive views on the molecular and biochemical mechanisms regulating infectious disease pathogenesis...
The histopathologic and molecular basis for the diagnosis of histiocytic sarcoma and histiocyte-associated lymphoma of miceX Hao
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD, USA
Vet Pathol 47:434-45. 2010..The second appeared to be composites of lymphoma and HS. Several cases suggestive of B myeloid-lineage plasticity were also observed...
Analysis of granuloma formation in double cytokine-deficient mice reveals a central role for IL-10 in polarizing both T helper cell 1- and T helper cell 2-type cytokine responses in vivoT A Wynn
Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892 0425, USA
J Immunol 159:5014-23. 1997..Together, these results argue first that IL-10 is an important endogenous down-regulator of type 2 as well as type 1 cytokine synthesis, and second, that its induction is critical for type 2 response polarization in vivo...
STAT6-deficient mice exhibit normal induction of murine AIDS and expression of immunoglobulin E following infection with LP-BM5 murine leukemia virusesH C Morse
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Virol 73:7093-5. 1999..In addition, serum IgE levels were indistinguishable in mice of either genotype. We conclude that B cells from mice with MAIDS activate unique IL-4- and STAT6-independent signaling pathways for B-cell activation and differentiation...
Relationship of cytokines and cytokine signaling to immunodeficiency disorders in the mouseR A Morawetz
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Braz J Med Biol Res 31:61-7. 1998..ICSBP is thus an important determinant of hematopoietic growth and differentiation as well as a prominent signaling molecule for IFNs...
Lymphomas and high-level expression of murine leukemia viruses in CFW miceL Taddesse Heath
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 0760, USA
J Virol 74:6832-7. 2000..Lymphomas were induced in NIH Swiss mice infected as neonates with tissue culture-propagated MuLVs isolated from normal and tumor tissue of CFW mice...
Cellular motor protein KIF-4 associates with retroviral GagY Tang
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Virol 73:10508-13. 1999..The binding of Gag is mediated by a domain of KIF-4 proximal to the C terminus. These results, and our previous studies, raise the possibility that KIF-4 may play an important role in retrovirus Gag protein transport...
Citrobacter-induced colitis in mice with murine acquired immunodeficiency syndromeT N Fredrickson
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Vet Pathol 47:312-7. 2010..Thus, mice with MAIDS can develop severe disease following opportunistic infection with an environmental contaminant of the colony that is nonpathogenic for normal adult mice...
Interferon (IFN) consensus sequence-binding protein, a transcription factor of the IFN regulatory factor family, regulates immune responses in vivo through control of interleukin 12 expressionN A Giese
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 0760, USA
J Exp Med 186:1535-46. 1997..This indicates that ICSBP is a deciding factor in Th responses governing humoral and cellular immunity through its role in regulating IL-12 expression...
Binding of murine leukemia virus Gag polyproteins to KIF4, a microtubule-based motor proteinW Kim
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Virol 72:6898-901. 1998..KIF4-MuLV Gag associations have been detected in vitro and in vivo in mammalian cells. We suggest that KIF4 could be involved in Gag polyprotein translocation from the cytoplasm to the cell membrane...
The encephalopathy associated with murine acquired immunodeficiency syndromeY Sei
Department of Anesthesiology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 840:822-34. 1998....
Murine AIDS is an antigen-driven disease: requirements for major histocompatibility complex class II expression and CD4+ T cellsN A Giese
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
J Virol 68:5819-24. 1994..These results indicate that induction of MAIDS by BM5def is antigen driven and is dependent on expression of major histocompatibility complex class II molecules on antigen-presenting cells and the presence of CD4+ T cells...
Burkitt lymphoma in the mouseA L Kovalchuk
Laboratory of Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Exp Med 192:1183-90. 2000....
Impact of MHC class I gene on resistance to murine AIDSM Makino
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Scand J Immunol 42:368-72. 1995..A(18R) mice. These results suggest that the MAIDS resistance associated with the D end loci is dependent on the level of expression of an MHC class I gene...
The influence of a targeted deletion of the IFNgamma gene on emotional behaviorsY Kustova
Laboratory of Bio organic Chemistry, NIDDK, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Brain Behav Immun 12:308-24. 1998....
DNA-PKcs: a T-cell tumour suppressor encoded at the mouse scid locusC Jhappan
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 4255, USA
Nat Genet 17:483-6. 1997..15)...
Cloning, expression and genetic mapping of the mouse SH3 domain protein, SH3D2BT Torrey
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Mamm Genome 9:74-5. 1998
Enhanced pulmonary histopathology induced by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) challenge of formalin-inactivated RSV-immunized BALB/c mice is abrogated by depletion of interleukin-4 (IL-4) and IL-10M Connors
Respiratory Viruses Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
J Virol 68:5321-5. 1994..It is possible that this process played a role in enhanced disease observed in infants and children immunized with FI-RSV...
Altered brain fyn kinase in a murine acquired immunodeficiency syndromeY Sei
Laboratory of Neuroscience, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
FASEB J 10:339-44. 1996..These findings suggest that virus-associated disruption of fyn kinase-mediated signaling contributes to the cognitive deficits observed in mice with MAIDS and other retrovirus-induced encephalopathies...
Contribution of B cell subsets to delayed development of MAIDS in xid miceY Tang
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Cell Immunol 165:1-6. 1995..Both sets of recipients developed advanced disease by 10 weeks post infection, suggesting that resistance to MAIDS in xid mutants may be due to effects of B cells other than the CD5+ subset...
Retrovirus-elicited interleukin-12 and tumour necrosis factor-alpha as inducers of interferon-gamma-mediated pathology in mouse AIDSN A Giese
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 0760, USA
Immunology 87:467-74. 1996..These studies suggest that continuing low-level expression of IFN-gamma, stimulated by IL-12 and TNF-alpha, contributes to the susceptibility of B6 mice to MAIDS but is not required for the resistance of BALB/c mice to disease...
Proviral integrations at the Evi5 locus disrupt a novel 90 kDa protein with homology to the Tre2 oncogene and cell-cycle regulatory proteinsX Liao
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Oncogene 14:1023-9. 1997..Evi5 thus encodes a gene separate from Gfi1 that may also be involved in T-cell disease...
Genetic mapping in the mouse of Kif4, a gene encoding a kinesin-like motor proteinM S Lyu
Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Building 4, Room 329, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0460, USA
Mamm Genome 8:541. 1997
Susceptibility to raf and raf/myc retroviruses is governed by different genetic lociS P Klinken
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
J Virol 63:2411-4. 1989..From these data and the susceptibility of C x B recombinant inbred strains, it appears that very few genes (perhaps even a single gene) may govern susceptibility to raf/myc lymphomas and that resistance is the dominant trait...
Identification of two murine loci homologous to the v-cbl oncogeneD C Regnier
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
J Virol 63:3678-82. 1989..Analyses of Mus domesticus/M. spretus interspecific backcross mice showed that Cbl-1 maps between the immunoglobulin kappa light chain and T-cell receptor beta chain loci and that Cbl-2 is tightly linked to Thy-1...
Expression of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p27 and its deregulation in mouse B cell lymphomasChen-Feng Qi
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Twinbrook I, Room 1421, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA
Leuk Res 30:153-63. 2006..Here, p27 was complexed with D-type cyclins 1 and 3 and with the COPS9 protein, JAB1. In addition, we found cytoplasmic sequestration following phosphorylation by activated AKT...
Insertion of c-Myc into Igh induces B-cell and plasma-cell neoplasms in miceSung Sup Park
Laboratory of Genetics, Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Cancer Res 65:1306-15. 2005....
Regulation of the germinal center gene program by interferon (IFN) regulatory factor 8/IFN consensus sequence-binding proteinChang Hoon Lee
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Exp Med 203:63-72. 2006..These results suggest previously unappreciated roles for IRF8 in the transcriptional regulation of B cell GC reactions that include direct regulation of AICDA and BCL6...
Histologic and molecular characterizations of megakaryocytic leukemia in miceXingpei Hao
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
Leuk Res 30:397-406. 2006..This is the first report of spontaneous MKL in mice, defining VWF as a biomarker for diagnosis and suggesting possible involvement of a series of genes in disease pathogenesis...
Evi3, a zinc-finger protein related to EBFAZ, regulates EBF activity in B-cell leukemiaKathryn E Hentges
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Oncogene 24:1220-30. 2005..Further, these data imply that Evi3 misexpression initiates tumorigenesis by perturbing B-cell development via an interaction with EBF...
TNF receptor-associated factor (TRAF) domain and Bcl-2 cooperate to induce small B cell lymphoma/chronic lymphocytic leukemia in transgenic miceJuan M Zapata
The Burnham Institute, 10901 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:16600-5. 2004..Given that many human chronic lymphocytic leukemias overexpress TRAF1 and Bcl-2, our findings suggest that cooperation between Bcl-2 and TRAF pathways contributes to the development of this type of leukemia...
Immunoglobulin class switch recombination is impaired in Atm-deficient miceJoanne M Lumsden
Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bldg 10, Room 4B10, 10 Center Dr, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Exp Med 200:1111-21. 2004..These findings suggest a role of ATM in DNA DSB recognition and/or repair during CSR...
Regulation of B cell differentiation and plasma cell generation by IL-21, a novel inducer of Blimp-1 and Bcl-6Katsutoshi Ozaki
Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Immunol 173:5361-71. 2004..Finally, BXSB-Yaa mice, which develop a systemic lupus erythematosus-like disease, have greatly elevated IL-21, suggesting a role for IL-21 in the development of autoimmune disease...
Identification and characterization of two related murine genes, Eat2a and Eat2b, encoding single SH2-domain adaptersSilvia Calpe
Division of Immunology BIDMC, Harvard Medical School, 77 Ave Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Immunogenetics 58:15-25. 2006..Taken together, the data suggest that both EAT-2A and EAT-2B are adapters that recruit Src kinases to SLAM family receptors using a mechanism that is distinct from that of SAP...
Dysregulated TCL1 requires the germinal center and genome instability for mature B-cell transformationRhine R Shen
Department of Pathology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1732, USA
Blood 108:1991-8. 2006..We conclude that pEmu-B29-TCL1 transgenic B cells primed for transformation must experience the GC environment and, for at least some, develop genome instability to become fully malignant...
Evidence for selective transformation of autoreactive immature plasma cells in mice deficient in FaslJian Qiao Zhang
Department of Immunology, Holland Laboratory, American Red Cross, Rockville, MD 20855, USA
J Exp Med 200:1467-78. 2004..Our findings provide a strong case for targeted transformation of autoreactive B cells in gld mice and establish a valuable model for understanding the relationship between systemic autoimmunity and B cell neoplasia...
TRIM family proteins and their emerging roles in innate immunityKeiko Ozato
Program of Genomics and Differentiation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 2753, USA
Nat Rev Immunol 8:849-60. 2008..In this Review, we describe recent data that reveal broader antiviral and antimicrobial activities of TRIM proteins and discuss their involvement in the regulation of pathogen-recognition and transcriptional pathways in host defence...
An ENU-induced mutation in the lymphotoxin alpha gene impairs organogenesis of lymphoid tissues in C57BL/6 miceHongsheng Wang
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 5640 Fishers LN, TB1, Rm 1518, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 370:461-7. 2008..This new strain provides opportunities for understanding the full range of Lta gene function on a pure C57BL/6 background...
Identification of murine B cell lines that undergo somatic hypermutation focused to A:T and G:C residuesPalash Bhattacharya
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612 7344, USA
Eur J Immunol 38:227-39. 2008....
The BXH2 mutation in IRF8 differentially impairs dendritic cell subset development in the mousePrafullakumar Tailor
Laboratory of Molecular Growth Regulation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 2753, USA
Blood 111:1942-5. 2008..Together, this work indicates that IRF8-partner interactions play different roles in CD8alpha(+) DCs and pDCs, revealing a mechanistic separation that underlies development of these DC subsets...
Axon growth and guidance genes identify T-dependent germinal centre B cellsDi Yu
Division of Immunology and Genetics, John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Immunol Cell Biol 86:3-14. 2008..Finally we show some of the axon growth genes upregulated in TD-GC B cells including Basp1, Shh, Sult4alpha, Sc4mol are also preferentially expressed in post-GC B cell neoplasms...
A Stat5b transgene is capable of inducing CD8+ lymphoblastic lymphoma in the absence of normal TCR/MHC signalingKatherine Bessette
White River Junction Veteran s Association, White River Junction, VT, USA
Blood 111:344-50. 2008....
Anaplastic, plasmablastic, and plasmacytic plasmacytomas of mice: relationships to human plasma cell neoplasms and late-stage differentiation of normal B cellsChen Feng Qi
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Rockville, Maryland 20852, USA
Cancer Res 67:2439-47. 2007..Selecting specific types of mouse plasmacytomas that relate most closely to subtypes of human multiple myeloma may provide new opportunities for preclinical testing of drugs for treatment of the human disease...
Functional deficiency in IL-7 caused by an N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea-induced point mutationJianxun Feng
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland 20852, USA
Genetics 175:545-51. 2007..This new strain thus provides a new model for studying the functions of IL-7 on a pure C57BL/6 background...
Transitional B cells lose their ability to receptor edit but retain their potential for positive and negative selectionHongsheng Wang
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
J Immunol 179:7544-52. 2007..Our results support the idea that transitional B cells lose the capacity to edit, but are sensitive to positive and negative selection...
Tumor-associated zinc finger mutations in the CTCF transcription factor selectively alter tts DNA-binding specificityGalina N Filippova
Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA
Cancer Res 62:48-52. 2002..These observations suggest that CTCF may represent a novel tumor suppressor gene that displays tumor-specific "change of function" rather than complete "loss of function."..
IL-6 transgenic mouse model for extraosseous plasmacytomaAlexander L Kovalchuk
Laboratory of Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:1509-14. 2002..These findings provide a unique model of extramedullary PCT for studies on pathogenesis and treatment and suggest a previously unappreciated role for IL-6 in the genesis of germinal center-derived lymphomas...
The Bcl6 locus is not mutated in mouse B-cell lineage lymphomasMitsuo Hori
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 7 Centre Drive, Room 304, MSC 0760, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Leuk Res 26:739-43. 2002..The mouse Bcl6 locus must be inaccessible to the mutational machinery responsible for somatic mutations of Ig and BCL6 in humans...
Genomic instability in mouse Burkitt lymphoma is dominated by illegitimate genetic recombinations, not point mutationsLynne D Rockwood
Laboratory of Genetics, Center for Cancer Research CCR, NCI, Bethesda, Maryland, MD 20892, USA
Oncogene 21:7235-40. 2002..The results further suggest that a phenotype of hypermutability (elevated mutant frequency) may not always be required for oncogenesis to occur...
Dysregulated TCL1 promotes multiple classes of mature B cell lymphomaKatrina K Hoyer
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Molecular Biology Institute, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, and AIDS Institute, University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:14392-7. 2002..Together these data demonstrate that TCL1 is a powerful oncogene that, when overexpressed in both B and T cells, predominantly yields mature B cell lymphomas...
c-MYC activates protein kinase A (PKA) by direct transcriptional activation of the PKA catalytic subunit beta (PKA-Cbeta) geneKou Juey Wu
Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Oncogene 21:7872-82. 2002..These results indicate that, by activating PKA, c-MYC can provide endogenous activation of the cAMP signal transduction pathway independently of extracellular signals...
CD19 signaling pathways play a major role for murine AIDS induction and progressionSonja M Knoetig
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 5640 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
J Immunol 169:5607-14. 2002..Finally, CD22 deficiency was found to accelerate MAIDS development. These results provide novel insights into the B cell signaling pathways required for normal induction and progression of MAIDS...
A critical role for IL-21 in regulating immunoglobulin productionKatsutoshi Ozaki
Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1674, USA
Science 298:1630-4. 2002..This suggests that these gammac-dependent cytokines may be those whose inactivation is primarily responsible for the B cell defect in humans with XSCID...
CTCF functions as a critical regulator of cell-cycle arrest and death after ligation of the B cell receptor on immature B cellsChen Feng Qi
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:633-8. 2003..Rapid activation of CTCF by BCR ligation or treatment with TGF-beta was suppressed by ligation of CD40. These results demonstrate that CTCF is a common determinant to different pathways of death signaling in immature B cells...
Growth factor independence-1B expression leads to defects in T cell activation, IL-7 receptor alpha expression, and T cell lineage commitmentLoretta L Doan
Institute for Cellular Therapeutics and Department of Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY 40202, USA
J Immunol 170:2356-66. 2003..These data show that GFI1 and GFI1B are functionally unique, and implicate a role for GFI1 in the integration of activation and survival signals...
Stat5 synergizes with T cell receptor/antigen stimulation in the development of lymphoblastic lymphomaJohn A Kelly
Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, National Heart and Blood Institute, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892 1674, USA
J Exp Med 198:79-89. 2003..These data demonstrate the oncogenic potential of dysregulated expression of a STAT protein that is not constitutively activated, and that TCR stimulation can contribute to this process...
ICSBP is critically involved in the normal development and trafficking of Langerhans cells and dermal dendritic cellsGiovanna Schiavoni
Laboratory of Virology, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy
Blood 103:2221-8. 2004..Together, these results indicate that ICSBP is critically required for the development and trafficking of skin DCs, thus playing a critical role in the DC-mediated initiation of T-cell immunity...
The homeobox gene Hex induces T-cell-derived lymphomas when overexpressed in hematopoietic precursor cellsAlex George
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Oncogene 22:6764-73. 2003..Our results demonstrate that Hex can act as a T lineage oncogene when misexpressed in hematopoietic precursor cells...
High-throughput retroviral tagging for identification of genes involved in initiation and progression of mouse splenic marginal zone lymphomasMin Sun Shin
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland 20852, USA
Cancer Res 64:4419-27. 2004..The combined use of proviral tagging and analyses of gene expression thus provides a powerful approach to understanding of genes that collaborate in tumorigenesis...
BORIS, a novel male germ-line-specific protein associated with epigenetic reprogramming events, shares the same 11-zinc-finger domain with CTCF, the insulator protein involved in reading imprinting marks in the somaDmitri I Loukinov
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 0760, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:6806-11. 2002..Because BORIS bears the same DNA-binding domain that CTCF employs for recognition of methylation marks in soma, BORIS is a candidate protein for the elusive epigenetic reprogramming factor acting in the male germ line...
Bethesda proposals for classification of nonlymphoid hematopoietic neoplasms in miceScott C Kogan
Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 94143, USA
Blood 100:238-45. 2002..This classification will be of particular value to investigators seeking to develop, use, and communicate about mouse models of human hematopoietic neoplasms...
New genes involved in cancer identified by retroviral taggingTakeshi Suzuki
Mouse Cancer Genetics Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
Nat Genet 32:166-74. 2002..Our studies demonstrate the power of retroviral tagging for cancer gene discovery in the post-genome era and indicate a largely unrecognized complexity in mouse and presumably human cancer...
Recognition and degradation of myelin basic protein peptides by serum autoantibodies: novel biomarker for multiple sclerosisAlexey A Belogurov
Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Clinical Hospital, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
J Immunol 180:1258-67. 2008..Thus, anti-MBP autoantibody-mediated, epitope-specific binding and cleavage may be regarded as a specific characteristic of MS compared with OND and healthy donors and may serve as an additional biomarker of disease progression...
Identification of genes differentially regulated by the P210 BCR/ABL1 fusion oncogene using cDNA microarraysPetra HÃ¥kansson
Department of Clinical Genetics, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
Exp Hematol 32:476-82. 2004..A wide range of signal transduction molecules are activated by BCR/ABL1, including MYC, PI-3 kinase, and different STAT molecules. In contrast, relatively few genes are known to be regulated by BCR/ABL1 at the level of transcription...
AID is required for germinal center-derived lymphomagenesisLaura Pasqualucci
Institute for Cancer Genetics, the Departments of Pathology and Genetics and Development, and The Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Nat Genet 40:108-12. 2008..These results show that AID is required for GC-derived lymphomagenesis, supporting the notion that errors in AID-mediated antigen-receptor gene modification processes are principal contributors to the pathogenesis of human B-NHL...
The novel BORIS + CTCF gene family is uniquely involved in the epigenetics of normal biology and cancerElena M Klenova
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CQ4 3SQ, UK
Semin Cancer Biol 12:399-414. 2002..The sibling rivalry occasioned by aberrant expression of BORIS in cancer may interfere with normal functions of CTCF including growth suppression, and contribute to epigenetic dysregulation which is a common feature in human cancer...
A three-stage framework for gene expression data analysis by L1-norm support vector regressionHyunsoo Kim
Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Int J Bioinform Res Appl 1:51-62. 2005..The experimental results show a significant improvement over the current state-of-the-art approach, i.e., the two-stage process, which consists of the gene selection based on L1-SVR and the third stage of the proposed method...
B lymphoid neoplasms of mice: characteristics of naturally occurring and engineered diseases and relationships to human disordersHerbert C Morse
Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Adv Immunol 81:97-121. 2003
ICSBP is essential for the development of mouse type I interferon-producing cells and for the generation and activation of CD8alpha(+) dendritic cellsGiovanna Schiavoni
Laboratory of Virology, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
J Exp Med 196:1415-25. 2002....
Autoantibodies to myelin basic protein catalyze site-specific degradation of their antigenNatalia A Ponomarenko
Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 16 10, Miklukho Maklaya Street, Moscow 117997, Russia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:281-6. 2006..Thus, the discovered epitope-specific antibody-mediated degradation of MBP suggests a mechanistic explanation of the slow development of neurodegeneration associated with MS...
ICSBP/IRF-8 differentially regulates antigen uptake during dendritic-cell development and affects antigen presentation to CD4+ T cellsFabrizio Mattei
Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy
Blood 108:609-17. 2006..Together, these results indicate that, throughout the developmental program of DCs, ICSBP differentially controls Ag uptake and MHC class II (MHC-II) presentation affecting both functions only in differentiated peripheral DCs...
CpG DNA induced IL-12 p40 gene activation is independent of STAT1 activation or production of interferon consensus sequence binding proteinMary Bradford
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of Iowa, College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52246, USA
J Biomed Sci 9:688-96. 2002..Thus, CpG DNA-induced IL-12 p40 secretion is mediated by one or more signaling elements distinct from those induced by either LPS or IFN-gamma...
Endophilins interact with Moloney murine leukemia virus Gag and modulate virion productionMargaret Q Wang
Department of Microbiology, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Biol 3:4. 2003..The findings imply that endophilin is another component of the large complex that is hijacked by retroviruses to promote virion production...
Characterization of a novel murine retrovirus mixture that facilitates hematopoiesisLauren M Hook
The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609, USA
J Virol 76:12112-22. 2002..Thus, multiple pregnancies and allostimuli appear to have provided the signals required for activation of and recombination among endogenous viruses and could have resulted in generation of the Rauscher-like MuLV mixture...
Deregulated expression of the Myc cellular oncogene drives development of mouse "Burkitt-like" lymphomas from naive B cellsDelin Zhu
Molecular Immunology Group, Tenovus Laboratory, Southampton University Hospitals Trust, Southampton SO16 6YD, United Kingdom
Blood 105:2135-7. 2005..In contrast, human eBL development occurs in a GC or post-GC site with a likely contribution to pathogenesis from Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and other epigenetic factors...
Overexpression of Eg5 causes genomic instability and tumor formation in miceAndrew Castillo
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Cancer Res 67:10138-47. 2007....
Mouse models of human cancers (part 3)Alexander D Borowsky
Center for Comparative Medicine, University of California-Davis, 95615, USA
Comp Med 54:258-70. 2004
