title: Genomic organization of the T-cell receptor gamma gene and PCR detection of its clonal rearrangement in canine T-cell lymphoma/leukemia.
abstract: Because the T-cell receptor gamma (TCRgamma) gene is rearranged at an early stage of T-cell development in both TCRalphabeta and TCRgammadelta lineages, it has been preferentially targeted to detect T-cell clonality in human lymphoma/leukemia. We isolated 22 independent cDNA clones encoding canine TCRgamma and the following analysis of nucleotide sequences using the dog genome database revealed that the canine TCRgamma locus contains at least four repertories of variable genes that can be organized into two distinct subgroups and six repertories of joining genes belonging to two distinct subgroups according to the nucleotide sequence similarity. The findings allowed us to design PCR primers that were directed to the conserved or specific nucleotide sequences for each subgroup of variable and joining genes. By using four different combinations of primers, a PCR-based analysis was performed on cell samples collected from T-cell lymphoma/leukemia and B-cell lymphoma cases and hyperplastic and normal lymph nodes. All cell samples from 11 T-cell malignancy cases exhibited clonal amplification by two out of four primer combinations. This finding was considered to be valuable in PCR-based analysis for detecting T-cell clonality in canine lymphoma/leukemia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Clinical Pathology, Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University, 1-7-1 Kyonan-cho, Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-8602, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yagihara
authors.forename: Kyoichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tamura
authors.forename: Mayu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Isotani
authors.forename: Kenichiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ono
authors.forename: Tsukimi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Washizu
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bonkobara
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002999:Clone Cells; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D004285:Dogs; D015329:Gene Rearrangement, T-Lymphocyte / Q000235:genetics*; D019675:Genes, T-Cell Receptor gamma / Q000235:genetics*; D007133:Immunoglobulin Joining Region / Q000235:genetics; D007135:Immunoglobulin Variable Region / Q000235:genetics; D016399:Lymphoma, T-Cell / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000662:veterinary; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D004273:DNA, Neoplasm; D007133:Immunoglobulin Joining Region; D007135:Immunoglobulin Variable Region