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BLOOD
Volume 109, Issue 4, Pages 1636-1642Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2006-08-039024
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA109335, R01 CA109335, R37 CA033399, CA33399, CA34233, P01 CA034233] Funding Source: Medline
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We previously developed a multivariate model based on the RNA expression of 6 genes (LMO2, BCL6, FN1, CCND2, SCYA3. and BCL2) that predicts survival in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients. Since LMO2 emerged as the strongest predictor of superior outcome, we generated a monoclonal anti-LMO2 antibody in order to study its tissue expression pattern. Immumohistologic analysis of over 1200 normal and neoplastic tissue and cell lines showed that LMO2 protein is expressed as a nuclear marker in normal germinal-center (GC) B cells and GC-derived B-cell lines and in a subset of GC-derived B-cell lymphomas. LMO2 was also expressed in erythrold and myeloid precursors and in megakaryocytes and also in lymphoblastic and acute myeloid leukemias. It was rarely expressed in mature T, natural killer (NK), and plasma cell neoplasms and was absent from nonhernatolymphoid tissues except for endothelial cells. Hierarchical cluster analysis of immunolhistologic data in DLBCL demonstrated that the expression profile of the LMO2 protein was similar to that of other GC-associated proteins (HGAL, BCL6, and CD10) but different from that of non-GC proteins (MUM1/ARF4 and BCL2). Our results warrant inclusion of LMO2 in multivariate analyses to construct a clinically applicable immumohistologic algorithm for predicting survival in patients with DLBCL.
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