Project description:Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is the most frequent B-cell lymphoma in pediatric patients. While most patients are currently cured, a fraction of them are resistant to therapy. In order to investigate BL heterogeneity and the features distinguishing the non-responders (NR) to therapy, we analyzed pediatric EBV-negative BL specimens collected at diagnosis by single-cell (sc)-transcriptomics. Analysis of the non-tumor component revealed a predominance of immune cell infiltrates and a small representation of fibroblasts that was enriched in NR. Tumor cells displayed patient-specific features, as well as subpopulations that were common to most patients and expressed transcripts related to cell cycle, signaling pathways and cell-of-origin signatures.
Project description:Burkitt lymphoma is the commonest cancer in children in Africa. We compared the gene expression profiles of African Burkitt lymphoma patients with those of cases presented in Western countries in both immunocompetent (sporadic Burkitt lymphoma) and HIV-infected patients (immunodeficiency associated Burkitt lymphoma). We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression in different subtypes of Burkitt lymphoma.
Project description:Gene expression profiling of Peditric Burkitt lymphoma (PBL) patients samples were performed to analyze the comparative genomic signature and to investigate targetable signaling pathways in PBL 11 primary tumor specimens were obtained from Pediatric Burkitt lymphoma (PBS) patients and samples were hybridized to HGU133A2. Genechip (Affymetrix)
Project description:Burkitt lymphoma is the commonest cancer in children in Africa. We compared the gene expression profiles of African Burkitt lymphoma patients with those of cases presented in Western countries in both immunocompetent (sporadic Burkitt lymphoma) and HIV-infected patients (immunodeficiency associated Burkitt lymphoma). We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression in different subtypes of Burkitt lymphoma. Lymph-node biopsies were collected at diagnosis. Gene expression profiles were generated with the Affymetrix HG U133 2.0 plus microarray
Project description:Burkitt Lymphoma patient samples using gene expression to create a molecular definition of the disease. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression underlying cellularisation and identified distinct classes of up-regulated genes during this process. Keywords: clinical history design Samples were obtained from patients with Burkitt lymphoma and gene expression profiling was used to create a molecular definition of the disease. The molecular definition was then used to predict the disease in an independent set of patients with atypical Burkitt lymphoma and diffuse large B cell lymphoma.
Project description:Burkitt lymphoma is characterized by deregulation of MYC, but the contribution of other genetic mutations to the disease is largely unknown. Here, we describe the first completely sequenced genome from a Burkitt lymphoma tumor and germline DNA from the same affected individual. We further sequenced the exomes of 59 Burkitt lymphoma tumors and compared them to sequenced exomes from 94 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) tumors. We identified 70 genes that were recurrently mutated in Burkitt lymphomas, including ID3, GNA13, RET, PIK3R1 and the SWI/SNF genes ARID1A and SMARCA4. Our data implicate a number of genes in cancer for the first time, including CCT6B, SALL3, FTCD and PC. ID3 mutations occurred in 34% of Burkitt lymphomas and not in DLBCLs. We show experimentally that ID3 mutations promote cell cycle progression and proliferation. Our work thus elucidates commonly occurring gene-coding mutations in Burkitt lymphoma and implicates ID3 as a new tumor suppressor gene.
Project description:Burkitt lymphoma is characterized by deregulation of MYC, but the contribution of other genetic mutations to the disease is largely unknown. Here, we describe the first completely sequenced genome from a Burkitt lymphoma tumor and germline DNA from the same affected individual. We further sequenced the exomes of 59 Burkitt lymphoma tumors and compared them to sequenced exomes from 94 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) tumors. We identified 70 genes that were recurrently mutated in Burkitt lymphomas, including ID3, GNA13, RET, PIK3R1 and the SWI/SNF genes ARID1A and SMARCA4. Our data implicate a number of genes in cancer for the first time, including CCT6B, SALL3, FTCD and PC. ID3 mutations occurred in 34% of Burkitt lymphomas and not in DLBCLs. We show experimentally that ID3 mutations promote cell cycle progression and proliferation. Our work thus elucidates commonly occurring gene-coding mutations in Burkitt lymphoma and implicates ID3 as a new tumor suppressor gene. Gene expression profiling on 21 Burkitt lymphomas was performed using standard Affymetrix protocols as described previously. Briefly, 1 μg of total RNA was reverse transcribed, using oligo(dT) primer to synthesize cDNA. T7 primer was used for in vitro transcription, resulting in labeled cRNA, which was fragmented and hybridized to Affymetrix Whole-Genome Gene 1.0 ST microarrays. Microarrays were washed and scanned, and the data were normalized as described previously.
Project description:Burkitt Lymphoma patient samples using gene expression to create a molecular definition of the disease. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression underlying cellularisation and identified distinct classes of up-regulated genes during this process. Keywords: clinical history design
Project description:Microarray profiling of Burkitt Lymphoma cell line (BL2) with B-cell activating factor (BAFF) for 24 hrs . The Burkitt Lymphoma cell line were either only cultured in cell culture medium supplemented with 10 mM HEPES at 1 × 106 cells/ml or additionally incubated with B-cell activating factor (BAFF) for 24 hrs