Dataset: A mouse model of deregulation of the malt1 oncogene recapitulates the pathogenesis of human malt lymphoma [MALT dataset]

Attempts at modeling chromosomal translocations involving MALT1 gene, hallmarks of human mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma, have failed to reproduce the disease in mice. Here we describe a transgenic model in which MALT1 expression was targeted to mouse hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells. In Sca1-MALT1 mice, MALT1 deregulation activated the NF-kappaB pathway in Sca1+ cells, promoting selective B-cell differentiation and mature lymphocyte accumulation in extranodal tissues, progressively leading to the development of clonal B-cell lymphomas. These tumors recapitulated the histopathological features of human MALT lymphomas, presenting typical lymphoepithelial lesions and plasmacytic differentiation. Transcriptional profiling of Sca1-MALT1 murine lymphomas revealed overlapping molecular signatures with human MALT lymphomas, including MALT1-mediated NF-kappaB activation, pro-inflammatory signaling and XBP1-induced plasmacytic differentiation. Moreover, murine Malt1 showed proteolytic activity by cleaving Bcl10 in Sca1-MALT1 lymphomas. Our novel technological approach has allowed modeling human MALT lymphoma in mice, which represent unique tools study MALT lymphoma biology and evaluate anti-MALT1 therapies. Keywords: lymphoma profiling, MALT lymphoma 97 samples were analized of which 13 were normal B-cell purified subpopulations and 84 lymphoma samples (31 MALT lymphomas, 26 DLBCL, 15 FCL and 12 SMZL)

Species:

human

Samples:

97

Source:

E-GEOD-25638

PubMed:

22689981

Updated:

Dec.12, 2014

Registered:

Sep.15, 2014