Molecular characterization of BCL6 breakpoints in primary diffuse large B-cell lymphomas of the central nervous system identifies GAPD as novel translocation partner |
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| Authors: | Montesinos-Rongen Manuel Akasaka Takashi Zühlke-Jenisch Reina Schaller Carlo Van Roost Dirk Wiestler Otmar D Siebert Reiner Deckert Martina |
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| Institution: | 1.Department of Neuropathology, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany.; 2.Department of Neuropathology, University of Bonn Medical Center, Germany.; 3.Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, Calif.; 4.Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Schleswig‐Holstein (Campus Kiel), Kiel, Germany.; 5.Department of Neurosurgery, University of Bonn Medical Center, Germany. |
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| Abstract: | Primary central nervous system lymphomas (PCNSL) constitute diffuse large B-cell lymphomas arising in and remaining confined to the brain. Little information is available on cytogenetic changes in PCNSL, and recurrent chromosomal translocations have not yet been identified. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) of a series of 13 PCNSL from immunocompetent patients revealed 3 cases with signal patterns of a BCL6-specific probe suggesting a breakpoint in this oncogene locus in chromosome band 3q27. Here, we describe cloning of the translocation breakpoints by long-distance inverse polymerase chain reaction (LDI-PCR) in 2 of these tumors. Both breakpoints affected the first intron of BCL6. In one PCNSL, the HSPCA (HSP90A) gene in 14q32.31 was identified as BCL6 partner. In the second lymphoma, the gene encoding glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPD) on 12p13.31 was detected as a hitherto unknown partner of BCL6. Our results suggest translocation-mediated BCL6 oncogene activation as a so far unknown pathogenetically relevant mechanism in PCNSL. |
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