T‐Cell receptor variable (V) gene usage by lymphoid populations in T‐cell lymphoma
Abstract
A panel of monoclonal antibodies specific for TcR V gene families was used to study TcR V region expression in 28 cases of malignant and reactive T-cell expansions including four cases of mixed cellularity Hodgkin's disease (HD) and five reactive cases. TcR V beta 5 gene products were represented in three cases of lymphoblastic malignancy (V beta 5.1, V beta 5.2) and two cases of peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) (V beta 5.1). In the PTCL cases, the expanded family was found in the absence of clonal TcR gene rearrangements and in one of these cases with Ig JH and Ck clonal gene rearrangements consistent with the presence of a phenotypically and histologically undetectable clonal B-cell population. In a third PTCL case not investigated for genotype, the TCR V alpha 12 family was overrepresented. Expanded TcR V alpha 2 and V beta 5.1 families were identified in HD and V beta 8 and V beta 5.2/V beta 5.3 families in a reactive lymph node and CD3 and CD8-positive blood lymphocytosis respectively. Further study of PTCL and related entities are needed to establish whether expanded TcR families are common in those cases that fail to exhibit clonal TcR gene rearrangement.
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