title: Analysis of internal deletions within the BCL6 gene in B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
abstract: The BCL6 gene is frequently altered by chromosomal translocations and/or point mutations at its 5' non-coding portion in B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (B-NHL). We analysed submicroscopic structural alterations of the BCL6 gene which had arisen from internal deletion in four cases with B-NHL and found that these deletions overlapped at the 280 bp region in the first intron. In electrophoretic mobility shift assay, nuclear extracts prepared from various cell lines were shown to bind to a fragment from this commonly deleted region. Our results suggest that deregulation of BCL6 expression would be caused by loss of this putative protein-binding sequence in some B-NHL cases.
authors.affiliation: Third Department of Internal Medicine, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Furusawa
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D017353:Gene Deletion; D006801:Humans; D016393:Lymphoma, B-Cell / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D051560:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-6; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D051560:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-6; D014157:Transcription Factors