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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: ShihShih Chen
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-45481 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Chen Shih-Shih SS Batliwalla Franak F Holodick Nichol E NE Yan Xiao-Jie XJ Yancopoulos Sophia S Croce Carlo M CM Rothstein Thomas L TL Chiorazzi Nicholas N
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130402 16
(Auto)antigen engagement by the B-cell receptor (BCR) and possibly the sites where this occurs influence the outcome of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). To test if selection for autoreactivity leads to increased aggressiveness and if this selection plays out equally in primary and secondary tissues, we used T-cell leukemia (TCL)1 cells reactive with the autoantigen phosphatidylcholine (PtC). After repeated transfers of splenic lymphocytes from a single mouse with oligoclonal PtC-reactive cell ...[more]