Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Genetic modification of primary human B cells to model high-grade lymphoma

  • Rebecca Caeser,
  • Miriam Di Re,
  • Joanna A. Krupka,
  • Jie Gao,
  • Maribel Lara-Chica,
  • João M. L. Dias,
  • Susanna L. Cooke,
  • Rachel Fenner,
  • Zelvera Usheva,
  • Hendrik F. P. Runge,
  • Philip A. Beer,
  • Hesham Eldaly,
  • Hyo-Kyung Pak,
  • Chan-Sik Park,
  • George S. Vassiliou,
  • Brian J. P. Huntly,
  • Annalisa Mupo,
  • Rachael J. M. Bashford-Rogers,
  • Daniel J. Hodson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12494-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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A dearth of adequate preclinical models to faithfully mimic diffuse large B-cell lymphoma has hampered the identification of driver genes. Here, the authors present a co-culture system that enables ex vivo expansion, viral transduction and transformation of primary human germinal center B cells.