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Publikationen der Arbeitsgruppe Molekulare Genetik (1994 -2011)
 
 
Sellmann L, de Beer D, Bartels M, Opalka B, Nückel H, Dührsen U, Dürig J, Seifert M, Siemer D, Küppers R, Baerlocher GM, Röth A. (2011) Telomeres and prognosis in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. Int. J. Hematol. 93, 74-82

Rosenwald A, Küppers R. (2011) Pathology and molecular pathology of Hodgkin lymphoma. in Hodgkin lymphoma. Chapter 3, p. 33-48. Edited by A. Engert and S.J. Horning. Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg

Philipp C, Edelmann J, Bühler A, Winkler D, Stilgenbauer S, Küppers R. (2011) Mutation analysis of the TNFAIP3 (A20) tumor suppressor gene in CLL. Int. J. Cancer, 128, 1747-1750

Sellmann L, Scholtysik R, Kreuz M, Cyrull S, Tiacci E, Stanelle J, Carpinteiro A, Nückel H, Boes T, Gesk S, Siebert R, Klein-Hitpass L, Dührsen U, Dürig J, Küppers R. (2010) Gene dosage effects in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Cancer Genetics Cytogenetics, 203, 149-160

Scholtysik R, Kreuz M, Klapper W, Burkhardt B, Feller AC, Hummel M, Loeffler M, Rosolowski M, Schwaenen C, Spang R, Stein H, Thorns C, Trümper L, Vater I, Wessendorf S, Zenz T, Siebert R, Küppers R, for the "Molecular Mechanisms in Malignant Lymphomas" Network Project of the Deutsche Krebshilfe. (2010) Detection of genomic aberrations in molecularly defined Burkitt lymphoma by array-based high resolution single nucleotide polymorphism analysis. Haematologica, 95, 2047-2055

Hansmann M-L, Hartmann S, Küppers R. (2010) Hodgkin lymphoma. Chapter 34. p 143-155; in The Lymphoid Neoplasms, 3rd Edition Edited by I. Magrath, K. Bathia, P. Boffetta, C. Deardon, V. Diehl, R. Gascoyne, H.K. Müller-Hermelink, M. Potter, A.Z. Rohatiner. Hodder Education, London, UK

Küppers R. (2010) Overview of the immune system. Chapter 9. p. 587-607; in The Lymphoid Neoplasms, 3rd Edition; Edited by I. Magrath, K. Bathia, P. Boffetta, C. Deardon, V. Diehl, R. Gascoyne, H.K. Müller-Hermelink, M. Potter, A.Z. Rohatiner. Hodder Education, London, UK

Stanelle J, Döring C, Hansmann M-L, Küppers R. (2010) Mechanisms of aberrant GATA-3 expression in classical Hodgkin lymphoma and its consequences for the cytokine profile of Hodgkin and Reed/Sternberg cells. Blood, 116, 4202-4211

Montesinos-Rongen M, Schmitz R, Brunn A, Gesk S, Richter J, Hong K, Wiestler OD, Siebert R, Küppers R, Deckert M. (2010) Mutations of CARD11 but not TNFAIP3 may activate the NF-kappaB pathway in primary CNS lymphoma. Acta Neuropathol., 120, 529-535

Schmidt A, Schmitz R, Giefing M, Martin-Subero JI, Gesk S, Vater I, Massow A, Maggio E, Schneider M, Hansmann M-L, Siebert R, Küppers R. (2010) Rare occurrence of biallelic CYLD gene mutations in classical Hodgkin lymphoma, Genes Chrom. Cancer, 48, 803-809

Küppers R. (2010) Genomic imbalances in Hodgkin lymphoma. Blood, 116, 309-311 (Commentary)

Nückel H, Switala M, Sellmann L, Horn PA, Dürig J, Dührsen U, Küppers R, Grosse-Wilde H,
Rebmann V. (2010) The prognostic significance of soluble NKG2D ligands in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Leukemia, 24, 1152-1159

Küppers R. (2010) Side population cells in Hodgkin lymphoma. Leukemia Lymphoma, 51,741-742 (Commentary)

Müller C, Siemer D, Lehnerdt G, Lang S, Küppers R. (2010) Molecular analysis of IgD-positive human germinal centres. Int. Immunol., 22, 289-298

Rosenwald A, Küppers R. (2010) Pathologie und molekulare Pathologie des Hodgkin-Lymphoms. Der Onkologe, 16, 9-17

Hartmann S, Gesk S, Scholtysik R, Kreuz M, Bug S, Vater I, Döring C, Cogliatti S, Parrens M, Merlio J-P, Kwiecinska A, Porwit A, Piccaluga PP, Pileri P, Hoefler G, Küppers R, Siebert R, Hansmann M-L. (2010) High resolution SNP array genomic profiling of peripheral T cell lymphomas, not otherwise specified, identifies a subgroup with chromosomal aberrations affecting the REL locus. Br. J. Haematol., 148, 402-412

Schumacher MA, Schmitz R, Brune V, Tiacci E, Döring C, Hansmann M-L, Siebert R, Küppers R. (2010) Mutations in the genes coding for the NF-κB regulating factors IκBα and A20 are uncommon in nodular lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma. Haematologica, 95, 153-157

Küppers R. (2010) Developmental and functional biology of B lymphocytes. In: Non-Hodgkin lymphomas; 2nd ed. (Eds: J.O. Armitage, P.M. Mauch, N.L. Harris, B. Coffier, R. Dalla-Favera) Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia

Zenz T, Mertens D, Küppers R, Döhner H, Stilgenbauer S. (2010) From pathogenesis to treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. Nature Rev. Cancer, 10, 37-50

Schmitz R, Hansmann M-L, Bohle V, Martin-Subero JI, Hartmann S, Mechtersheimer G, Klapper W, Vater I, Giefing M, Gesk S, Stanelle J, Siebert R, Küppers R (2009) TNFAIP3 (A20) is a tumor suppressor gene in Hodgkin lymphoma and primary mediastinal B cell lymphoma. J. Exp. Med., 206, 981-989

Martín-Subero JI, Kreuz M, Bibikova M, Bentink S, Ammerpohl O, Wickham-Garcia E, Rosolowski M, Richter J, Lopez-Serra L, Ballestar E, Berger H, Agirre X, Bernd H-W, Calvanese V, Cogliatti SB, Drexler HG, Fan J-B, Fraga M-F, Hansmann M-L, Hummel M, Klapper W, Korn B, Küppers R, MacLeod RA, Möller P, Ott G, Pott C, Prosper F, Rosenwald A, Schwaenen C, Schübeler D, Seifert M, Stürzenhofecker B, Weber M, Wessendorf S, Loeffler M, Trümper L, Stein H, Spang R, Esteller M, Barker D, Hasenclever D, Siebert R. (2009) New insights into the biology and origin of mature aggressive B-cell lymphomas by combined epigenomic, genomic and transcriptional profiling. Blood, 113, 2488-2497

Küppers R (2009) Biology of Hodgkin lymphoma. Nature Rev. Cancer, 9, 15-27

Schmitz R, Stanelle J, Hansmann M-L, Küppers R. (2009) Pathogenesis of classical and lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma. Annu. Rev. Pathol., 4, 151-174

Seifert M, Steimle-Grauer SA, Goossens T, Hansmann M-L, Bräuninger A, Küppers R. (2009) A model for the development of human IgD-only B cells: genotypic analyses suggest their generation in superantigen driven immune responses. Mol. Immunol., 46, 630-639

Brune V, Tiacci E, Pfeil I, Döring C, Eckerle S, van Noesel CJM, Klapper W, Falini B, von Heydebreck A, Metzler D, Bräuninger A, Hansmann M-L, Küppers R. (2008) Origin and pathogenesis of nodular lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma as revealed by global gene expression analysis. J. Exp. Med., 205, 2251-2268

Küppers R. (2008) Memory B cells of a special kind. Immunol. Cell Biol., 86, 635-636 (News and Commentary

Szymanowska N, Klapper W, Gesk S, Küppers R, Martín-Subero JI, Siebert R. (2008) BCL2 and BCL3 are recurrent translocation partners of the IGH locus in classical Hodgkin lymphoma. Cancer Genetics Cytogenetics, 186, 110-114

Tiacci E, Brune V, Küppers R. (2008) Aspects of gene expression in B cell lymphomas. In: Microarrays in inflammation (Series: Progress in Inflammation Research) Editors: Bosio, A, Gerstmayer, B. Birkhäuser-Verlag, Basel, Switzerland

Hartmann S, Martin-Subero JI, Gesk S, Hüsken J, Giefing M, Nagel I, Riemke J, Chott A, Klapper W, Parrens M, Küppers R, Bräuninger A, Siebert R, Hansmann ML. (2008) Detection of genomic imbalances in microdissected Hodgkin- and Reed-Sternberg cells of classical Hodgkin lymphoma by array based comparative genomic hybridization. Haematologica, 93, 1318-1326

Giefing M, Arnemann J, Martin-Subero JI, Nieländer I, Bug S, Hartmann S, Arnold N, Tiacci E, Frank M, Hansmann ML, Küppers R, Siebert R. (2008) Identification of candidate tumor suppressor gene loci for Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells by characterization of homozygous deletions in classical Hodgkin lymphoma cell lines. Br. J. Haematol., 142, 916-924

Courts C, Montesinos-Rongen M, Brunn A, Bug S, Siemer D, Hans V, Blümcke I, Klapper W, Schaller C, Wiestler OD, Küppers R, Siebert R, Deckert M. (2008) Recurrent inactivation of the PRDM1 gene in primary central nervous system lymphoma. J. Neuropathol. Exp. Neurol., 67, 720-727

Gleissner B, Küppers R, Siebert R, Glass B, Trümper L, Hiddemann W, Dreyling M. (2008) Report of a workshop on malignant lymphoma: a review of molecular and clinical risk profiling. Br. J. Haematol., 142, 176-178

Siemer D, Kurth J, Lang S, Lehnerdt G, Stanelle J, Küppers R. (2008) EBV transformation overrides gene expression patterns of B cell differentiation stages. Mol. Immunol., 45, 3133-3141

Röck J, Schneider E, Grün JR, Grützkau A, Küppers R, Schmitz J, Winkels G. (2007) CD303 (BDCA-2) signals in plasmacytoid dendritic cells by a BCR-like signalosome involving Syk, Slp65 and PLC2. Eur. J. Immunol., 37, 3564-3575

Sellmann L, Gesk S, Walter C, Ritgen M, Harder L, Martín-Subero JI, Schroers R, Siemer D, Nückel H, Dyer MJS, Dührsen U, Siebert R, Dürig J, Küppers R. (2007) Trisomy 19 is associated with trisomy 12 and mutated IGHV genes in B-chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Br. J. Haematol., 138, 217-220

Renné C, Minner S, Küppers R, Hansmann M-L, Bräuninger A. (2008) Autocrine NGF/TRKA signalling is an important survival factor for Hodgkin lymphoma derived cell lines. Leuk. Res., 32, 163-167

Maggio E, Benharroch D, Gopas J, Dittmer U, Hansmann M-L, Küppers R (2007) Absence of measles virus genome and transcripts in Hodgkin-Reed/Sternberg cells of a cohort of Hodgkin lymphoma patients. Int. J. Cancer, 121, 448-453

Küppers R, Re D (2007) Nature of Reed-Sternberg and L&H cells, and their molecular biology in Hodgkin lymphoma. In: Hoppe RT, Armitage JO, Diehl V, Mauch PM, Weiss LM (eds) Hodgkin lymphoma. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2nd ed., p.73-86

Renné C, Willenbrock K, Martin-Subero JI, Hinsch N, Döring C, Tiacci E, Klapper W, Möller P, Küppers R, Hansmann M-L, Siebert R, Bräuninger A (2007) High expression of several tyrosine kinases and activiation of P13K/AKT pathway in mediastinal large B cell lymphoma reveals further similarities to Hodgkin lymphoma. Leukemia, 21, 780-787

Courts C, Montesinos-Rongen M, Martin-Subero JI, Brunn A, Siemer D, Zühlke-Jenisch R, Pels H, Jürgens A, Schlegel U, Schmidt-Wolf IGH, Schaller C, Reifenberger G, Sabel M, Warnecke-Eberz U, Wiestler OD, Küppers R, Siebert R, Deckert M (2007) Transcriptional profiling of the NF-KB pathway identifies a subgroup of primary lymphoma of the central nervous system with low BCL10 expression. J. Neuropathol. Exp. Neurol., 66, 230-237

Renné C, Hinsch N, Willenbrock K, Fuchs M, Klapper W, Engert A, Küppers R, Hansmann M-L, Bräuninger A (2007) The aberrant expression of several receptor tyrosine kinase is largely restricted to EBV-negative cases of classical Hodgkin lymphoma. Int. J. Cancer, 120, 2504-2509

Kluiver J, Kok K, Pfeil I, de Jong D, Blokzijl T, Harms G, van der Vlies P, Diepstra A, Atayar C, Poppema S, Küppers R, van den Berg A (2007) Global correlation of genome and transcriptome changes in classical Hodgkin lymphoma. Hematol. Oncol., 25, 21-29

Martin-Subero JI, Klapper W, Sotnikova A, Callet-Bauchu E, Harder L, Bastard C, Distler V, Schmitz R, Grohmann S, Höppner J, Riemke J, Barth TFE, Berger F, Bernd H-W, Claviez A, Gesk S, Frank GA, Kaplanskaya IB, Möller P, Parwaresch RM, Rüdiger T, Stein H, Küppers R, Hansmann M-L, Siebert R (2006) Chromosomal breakpoints affecting immunoglobulin loci are recurrent in Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells of classical Hodgkin lymphoma. Cancer Res., 66, 10332-10338

Frey UH, Nückel H, Sellmann L, Bechtel D, Küppers R, Dürig J, Dührsen U, Siffert W (2006) The GNAS1 T393C polymorphism is assiociated with disease progression and survival in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Clin. Cancer Res., 12, 5686-5692

Renné C, Martin-Subero JI, Eickernjäger M, Hansmann M-L, Küppers R, Siebert R, Bräuninger A (2006) Aberrant expression of ID2, a suppressor of B-cell-specific gene expression, in Hodgkin's lymphoma. Am. J. Pathol., 169, 655-664

Küppers R, Tiacci E (2006) Lymphoma. In: Encyclopedia of Respiratory Medicine. Vol 4, Editors: Geoffrey J. Laurent and Steven D. Shapiro. Academic Press, London, UK, 344-349

Schmitz R, Thomas RK, Harttrampf AC, Wickenhauser C, Schultze JL, Hansmann M-L, Wolf J, Küppers R (2006) The major subtypes of human B cell lymphomas lack mutations in BCL-2 family member BAD. Int. J. Cancer, 119, 1738-1740

Küppers R, Bräuninger A (2006) Reprogramming of tumour B cell phenotypes in Hodgkin lymphoma. Trends Immunol., 27, 203-205

Willenbrock K, Küppers R, Renné C, Brune V, Eckerle S, Weidmann E, Bräuninger A, Hansmann M-L (2006) Common features and differences in the transcriptome of large cell anaplastic lymphoma and classical Hodgkin lymphoma. Haematologica/The Hematology Journal, 91, 596-604

Bräuninger A, Schmitz R, Bechtel D, Renné C, Hansmann M-L, Küppers R (2006) Molecular biology of Hodgkin's and Reed/Sternberg cells in Hodgkin's lymphoma. Int. J. Cancer, 118, 1853-1861

Küppers R, Yahalom J, Josting A (2006) Advances in biology, diagnostics and treatment of Hodgkin's disease. Biol. Blood Marrow Transpl., 12 (Suppl., 1), 66-76

Bechtel D, Kurth J, Unkel C, Küppers R (2005) Transformation of BCR-deficient germinal center B Cells by EBV supports a major role of the virus in the pathogenesis of Hodgkin and post transplant lymphoma. Blood, 106, 4345-4350

Willenbrock K, Jungnickel B, Hansmann M-L, Küpper R (2005) Human splenic marginal zone B cells lack expression of activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID). Eur. J. Immunol., 35, 3002-3007

Re D, Küppers R, Diehl V (2005) Molecular pathogenesis of Hodgkin's lymphoma. J. Clin. Oncol., 23, 6379-6386

Küppers R (2005) Biology of Hodgkin's lymphoma. Haematology (Eur. Hematol. Assos. Edu. Programme), 1, 167-171

Schmitz R, Renné C, Rosenquist R, Tinguely M, Distler V, Menestrina F, Lestani M, Stankovic T, Austen B, Bräuninger A, Hansmann M-L, Küppers R (2005) Insight into the multistep transformation process of lymphomas: IgH-associated translocations and tumor suppressor gene mutations in clonally related composite Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphomas. Leukemia, 19, 1452-1458

Thomas RK, Schmitz R, Harttrampf AC, Hadi AA, Winckenhauser C, Distler V, Hansmann M-L, Schultze JL, Küppers R, Wolf J (2005) Apoptosis-resistant phenotype of classical Hodgkin's lymphoma is not mediated by somatic mutations within the genes encoding for members of the death-inducing signaling complex (DISC). Leukemia, 19, 1079-1082

Küppers R, Schmitz R, Distler V, Renné C, Bräuninger A, Hansmann M-L (2005) Pathogenesis of Hodgkin's lymphoma. Eur. J. Haematol., 75 (Suppl. 66), 26-33

Montesinos-Rongen M, Schmitz R, Stenzel W, Courts C, Bechtel D, Niedobitek G, Blümcke I, Reifenberger G, von Deimling A, Jungnickel B, Wiestler OD, Küppers R, Deckert M (2005) Absence of immunoglobulin class switch in primary lymphomas of the central nervous system. Am. J. Pathol., 166, 1773-1779

Renné C, Willenbrock K, Küppers R, Hansmann M-L, Bräuninger A (2005) Autocrine- and paracrine-activated receptor tyrosine kinases in classic Hodgkin lymphoma. Blood, 105, 4051-4059

Küppers R (2005) Mechanisms of B cell lymphoma pathogenesis. Nature Rev. Cancer, 5, 251-262

Küppers R, Hansmann M-L (2005) The Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cell. Int. J. Biochem. Cell Biol., 37, 511-517

Küppers R (2004) Prognosis in follicular lymphoma - it's in the microenvironment (Perspective). N. Engl. Med., 351, 2152-2153

Rosenquist R, Roos G, Erlanson M, Küppers R, Bräuninger A, Hansmann ML (2004) Clonally related splenic marginal zone lymphoma and Hodgkin lymphoma with unmutated V gene rearrangements and a 15-yr time gap between diagnosis. Eur. J. Haematol., 73, 210-214

Thomas RK, Wickenhauser C, Tawadros S, Diehl V, Küppers R, Jürgen Wolf J, Schmitz R (2004) Mutational analysis of the IkBa gene in activated B cell-like diffuse large B cell lymphoma (ABC-DLBCL). Br. J. Haematol., 126, 50-54

Küppers R (2004) Molecular single cell PCR analysis of rearranged immunoglobulin genes as a tool to determine the clonal composition of normal and malignant human B cells. Meth. Mol. Biol. , 271, 225-238

Rosenquist R, Menestrina F,Lestani M, Küppers R, Hansmann M-L, Bräuninger A (2004) Indications for peripheral light-chain revision and somatic hypermutation without a functional B-cell receptor in precursors of a composite diffuse large B-cell and Hodgkin lymphoma. Lab. Invest., 84, 253-262

Küppers R, Rajewsky K (2003) Developmental and functional biology of B lymphocytes. In: Non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (Eds: P.M. Mauch, J.O. Armitage, N.L. Harris, B. Coffier, R. Dalla-Favera) Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore

Falini B, Tiacci E, Pucciarini A, Bigerna B, Kurth J, Hatzivassiliou G, Droetto S, Galletti BV, Gambacorta M, Orazi A, Pasqualucci L, Miller I, Küppers R, Dalla-Favera R, Cattoretti G (2003) Expression of the IRTA1 receptor identifies intra-epithelial and sub-epithelial marginal zone B cells of the mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT). Blood, 102, 3684-369

Tinguely M, Rosenquist R, Sundström C, Amini R-M, Küppers R, Hansmann M-L, Bräuninger A (2003) Analysis of a clonally related mantle cell and Hodgkin lymphoma indicates Epstein-Barr virus infection of a Hodgkin/Reed-Sternberg cell precursor in a germinal center. Am. J. Surg. Pathol., 27, 1483-1488

Küppers R (2003) B cells under influence: transformation of B cells by Epstein-Barr virus. Nature Rev. Immunol. 3, 801-812

Bräuninger A, Spieker T, Mottok A, Baur AS, Küppers R, Hansmann M-L (2003) Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-positive lymphoproliferations in post-transplant patients show immunoglobulin V gene mutation patterns suggesting interference of EBV with normal B cell differentiation processes. Eur. J. Immunol., 33, 1593-1602

Küppers R, Rajewsky K, Staratschek-Jox A, Wolf J, Diehl V (2003) Morbus Hodgkin. In: Molekularmedizinische Grundlagen von hämatologischen Neoplasien (Eds: Ganten, Ruckpaul) Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 479-494

Schwering I, Bräuninger A, Distler V, Jesdinsky J, Diehl V, Hansmann M-L, Rajewsky K, Küppers R (2003) Gene expression profiling of the Hodgkin's lymphoma cell line L1236 and germinal center B cells for the identification of Hodgkin's lymphoma-specific genes. Mol. Med., 9, 85-95

Küppers R (2003) Somatic hypermutation and B cell receptor selection in normal and transformed human B cells. In: Immune mechanisms and disease, (Eds: N. Chiorazzi et al.) Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., 987, 173-179

Kurth J, Hansmann M-L, Rajewsky K, Küppers R (2003) Epstein-Barr virus-infected B cells expanding in germinal centers of infectious mononucleosis patients do not participate in the germinal center reaction. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 100, 4730-4735 (RK and KR share last authorship)

Bräuninger A, Wacker H-H, Rajewsky K, Küppers R, Hansmann M-L (2003) Typing the histogenetic origin of the tumor cells of lymphocyte-rich classical Hodgkin´s lymphoma in relation to tumor cells of classical and lymphocyte-predominance Hodgkin´s lymphoma. Cancer Res., 63, 1644-1651

Küppers R, Klein U, Schwering I, Distler V, Bräuninger A, Cattoretti G, Tu Y, Stolovitzky GA, Califano A, Hansmann M-L, Dalla-Favera R (2003) Identification of Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cell-specific genes by gene expression profiling. J. Clin. Invest., 111, 529-537 (RK, UK and IS share first authorship)

Schwering I, Bräuninger A, Klein U, Jungnickel B, Tinguely M, Diehl V, Hansmann M-L, Dalla-Favera R, Rajewsky K, Küppers R (2003) Loss of the B lineage-specific gene expression program in Hodgkin and Reed/Sternberg cells of Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Blood, 101, 1505-1512

Kurth J, Perniok A, Schmitz R, Iking-Konert C, Chiorazzi N, Thompson KM, Winkler T, Rajewsky K, Küppers R (2002) Lack of deleterious somatic mutations in the CD95 gene of plasmablasts from systemic lupus erythematosus patients and autoantibody-producing cell lines. Eur.J.Immunol., 32, 2785-2792

Küppers R, Schwering I, Bräuninger A, Rajewsky K, Hansmann M-L (2002) Biology of Hodgkin's lymphoma. Ann. Oncol., 13, suppl. 1, 11-18

Küppers R, Sonoki T, Satterwhite E, Gesk S, Harder L, Oscier DG, Tucker PW, Dyer MJS, Siebert R (2002) Lack of somatic hypermutation of IG VH genes in lymphoid malignancies with t(2;14)(p13;q32) translocation involving the BCL11A gene. Leukemia, 16, 937-939

Oeschger S, Bräuninger A, Küppers R, Hansmann M-L (2002) Tumor cell dissemination in follicular lymphoma. Blood, 99, 2192-2198

Müschen M, Rajewsky K, Krönke M, Küppers R (2002) The origin of CD95-gene mutations in B-cell lymphoma. Trends Immunol., 23, 75-80

Küppers R (2002) Molecular biology of Hodgkin's lymphoma. Adv. Cancer Res., 84, 277-312

Goossens T, Bräuninger A, Klein U, Küppers R. Rajewsky K (2001) Receptor revision plays no major role in shaping the receptor repertoire of human memory B cells after the onset of somatic hypermutation. Eur.J. Immunol., 31, 3638-3648

Bräuninger A, Goossens T, Rajewsky K, Küppers R (2001) Regulation of immunoglobulin light chain gene rearrangements during early B cell development in the human. Eur.J. Immunol., 31, 3631-3637

Küppers R, Dalla-Favera R (2001) Mechanisms of chromosomal translocations in B cell lymphomas. Oncogene, 20, 5580-5594

Bräuninger A, Spieker T, Willenbrock K, Gaulard P, Wacker HH, Rajewsky K, Hansmann M-L, Küppers R (2001) Survival and clonal expansion of mutating ”forbidden” (immunoglobulin receptor-deficient) Epstein-Barr virus-infected B cells in angioimmunoblastic T cell lymphoma. J. Exp. Med., 194, 927-940

Pasqualucci L, Neumeister P, Goossens T, Nanjangud G, Chaganti RSK, Küppers R, Dalla-Favera R (2001) Hypermutation of multiple proto-oncogenes in B-cell diffuse large-cell lymphoma. Nature, 412, 341-346

Küppers R, Sousa AB, Baur AS, Strickler JG, Rajewsky K, Hansmann M-L (2001) Common germinal-center B-cell origin of the malignant cells in two composite lymphomas, involving classical Hodgkin’s disease and either follicular lymphoma or B-CLL. Mol. Med., 7, 285-292 (RK und ABS share first authorships)

Willenbrock K, Roers A, Seidl C,Wacker HH, Küppers R, Hansmann M-L (2001) Analysis of T-cell subpopulations in T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy with dysproteinemia type by single target gene amplification of T-cell receptor beta gene rearrangements. Am.J.Pathol., 158, 1851-1857

Müschen M, Küppers R, Spieker T, Bräuninger A, Rajewsky K, Hansmann M-L (2001) Molecular single-cell analysis of Hodgkin- and Reed-Sternberg cells harboring unmutated immunoglobulin variable region genes. Lab.Invest., 81, 289-295

Küppers R, Bräuninger A, Müschen M, Distler V, Hansmann M-L, Rajewsky K (2001) Evidence that Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells in Hodgkin disease do not represent cell fusions. Blood, 97, 818-821

Bräuninger A, Yang W, Wacker H-H, Rajewsky K, Küppers R, Hansman M-L (2001) B cell development in progressively transformed germinal centers: similarities and differences compared with classical germinal centers and lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin disease. Blood, 97, 714-719

Müschen M, Re D, Jungnickel B, Diehl V, Rajewsky K, Küppers R (2000) Somatic mutation of the CD95 gene in human B cells as a side-effect of the germinal center reaction. J.Exp. Med., 192, 1833-1839

Müschen M, Re D, Bräuninger A, Wolf J, Hansmann M-L, Diehl V, Küppers R, Rajewsky K (2000) Somatic mutations of the CD95 gene in Hodgkin- and Reed-Sternberg cells. Cancer Res., 60, 5640-5643

Spieker T, Kurth J, Küppers R, Rajewsky K, Bräuninger A, Hansmann M-L (2000) Molecular single-cell analysis of the clonal relationship of small Epstein-Barr virus-infected cells and Epstein-Barr virus-harboring Hodgkin and Reed/Sternberg cells in Hodgkin disease. Blood 96, 3133-3138

Kurth J, Spieker T, Wustrow J, Strickler JG, Hansmann M-L, Rajewsky K, Küppers R (2000) EBV-infected B cells in infectious mononucleosis: Viral strategies for spreading in the B cell compartment and establishing latency. Immunity, 13, 485-495

Geiger KD, Klein U, Bräuninger A, Berger S, Leder K, Rajewsky K, Hansmann M-L, Küppers R (2000) CD5-positive B cells in healthy elderly humans are a polyclonal B cell population. Eur.J.Immunol. 30, 2918-2923

Roers A, Hansmann M-L, Rajewsky K, Küppers R (2000) Single cell PCR analysis of T helper cells in human lymph node germinal centers. Am. J. Pathol. 156, 1067-1071

Kanzler H, Küppers R, Helmes S, Wacker HH, Chott A, Hansmann ML, Rajewsky K (2000) Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg-like cells in B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia represent the outgrowth of single germinal-center B cell-derived clones: Potential precursors of Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells in Hodgkin’s disease? Blood 95, 1023-1031

Jungnickel B, Staratschek-Jox A, Bräuninger A, Spieker T, Wolf J, Diehl V, Hansmann M-L, Rajewsky K, Küppers R (2000) Clonal deleterious mutations in the IB gene in the malignant cells in Hodgkin’s lymphoma. J.Exp.Med. 191, 395-401

Müschen M, Rajewsky K, Bräuninger A, Baur AS, Oudejans JJ, Roers A, Hansmann ML, Küppers R (2000) Rare occurrence of classical Hodgkin’s disease as a T cell lymphoma. J.Exp.Med. 191, 387-394

Montesinos-Rongen M, Küppers R, Schlüter D, Spieker T, van Roost D, Schaller C, Reifenberger G, Wiestler OD, Deckert-Schlüter M (1999) Primary central nervous system lymphomas are derived from germinal center B cells and show a preferential usage of the V4-34 gene segment. Am. J. Pathol. 155, 2077-2086

Küppers R, Klein U, Hansmann ML, Rajewsky K (1999) Cellular origin of human B cell lymphomas. New Engl. J. Med. 341, 1520-1529

Montesinos-Rongen M, Roers A, Küppers R, Rajewsky K, Hansmann ML (1999) Mutations of the p53 gene are not a typical feature of Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells in Hodgkin's disease. Blood 94, 1755-1760

Küppers R (1999) Identifying the presursors of Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells in Hodgkin's disease: Role of the germinal center in B cell lymphomagenesis. J. Acq. Immune Def. Syndr. 21, S74-S79

Jox A, Zander T, Küppers R, Irsch J, Kanzler H, Kornacker M, Bohlen H, Diehl V, Wolf J (1999) Somatic mutations within the untranslated regions of rearranged Ig genes in a case of classical Hodgkin's disease as a potential cause for the absence of Ig in the lymphoma cells. Blood 93, 3964-3972

Küppers R, Goossens T, Klein U (1999) The role of somatic hypermutation in the generation of deletions and duplications in human Ig V region genes and chromosomal translocations. Curr. Top. Microbiol. Immunol. 246, 193-198

Klein U, Rajewsky K, Küppers R (1999) Phenotypic and molecular characterization of human peripheral blood B-cell subsets with special reference to N-region addition and J usage in VJ-joints and /-ratios in naive versus memory B-cell subsets to identify traces of receptor editing processes. Curr. Top. Microbiol. Immunol. 246, 141-146

Bräuninger A, Hansmann ML, Strickler JG, Dummer R, Burg G, Rajewsky K, Küppers R (1999) Identification of common germinal-center B-cell precursors in two patients with both Hodgkin's disease and B cell Non Hodgkin's lymphoma. N. Engl. J. Med. 340, 1239-1247

Bräuninger A, Küppers R, Spieker T, Siebert R, Strickler JG, Schlegelberger B, Rajewsky K, Hansmann ML (1999) Molecular analysis of single B cells from T cell-rich B cell lymphoma reveals the derivation of the tumor cells from mutating germinal center B cells and exemplifies means by which immunoglobulin genes are modified in germinal center B cells. Blood 93, 2679-2687

Küppers R, Hansmann ML, Rajewsky K (1998) Clonality and germinal centre B-cell derivation of Hodgkin/Reed-Sternberg cells in Hodgkin's disease. Ann.Oncol. 9, S17-S20

Klein U, Rajewsky K, Küppers R (1998) Human immunoglobulin (Ig) M+IgD+ peripheral blood B cells expressing the CD27 cell surface antigen carry somatically mutated V region genes: CD27 as a general marker for somatically mutated (memory) B cells. J. Exp. Med. 188, 1679-1689

Vockerodt M, Soares M, Kanzler H, Küppers R, Kube D, Hansmann, ML, Diehl V, Tesch H (1998) Detection of clonal Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells with identical somatically mutated and rearranged VH genes in different biopsies in relapsed Hodgkin's disease. Blood 92, 2899-2907

Pasqualucci L, Migliazza A, Fracchiolla N, William C, Neri A, Baldini L, Chaganti, RSK, Klein U, Küppers R, Rajewsky K, Dalla-Favera R (1998) BCL-6 mutations in normal germinal center B cells: evidence of somatic hypermutation acting outside Ig loci. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 11816-11821

Fischer M, Küppers R (1998) Human IgA and IgM secreting intestinal plasma cells carry heavily mutated VH region genes. Eur. J. Immunol. 28, 2971-2977

Irsch J, Nitsch S, Hansmann, ML, Rajewsky K, Tesch H, Diehl V, Jox A, Küppers R, Radbruch A (1998) Isolation of viable Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells from Hodgkin disease tissues. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 10117-10122 (RK und AR share last authorships)

Roers A, Montesinos-Rongen M, Hansmann ML, Rajewsky K, Küppers R (1998) Amplification of TCR gene rearrangements from micromanipulated single cells: T cells rosetting around Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells in Hodgkin's disease are polyclonal. Eur. J.Immunol. 28, 2424-2431

Klein U, Goossens, T, Fischer M, Kanzler H, Braeuninger A, Rajewsky K, Küppers R (1998) Somatic hypermutation in normal and transformed human B cells. Immunol.Rev. 162, 261-280

Küppers R, Rajewsky K (1998) The origin of Hodgkin and Reed/Sternberg cells in Hodgkin's disease. Annu.Rev.Immunol. 16, 471-493

Jox A, Zander T, Kornacker M, Kanzler H, Küppers R, Diehl V, Wolf J (1998) Detection of identical Hodgkin-Reed Sternberg cell specific immunoglobulin gene rearrangements in a patient with Hodgkin's disease of mixed cellularity subtype at primary diagnosis and in relapse two and and a half years later. Ann.Oncol. 9, 283-287

Küppers R, Rajewsky K, Braeuninger A, Hansmann ML (1998) L&H cells in lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin's disease. (Letter to the Editor). N.Engl.J.Med. 338, 763-764

Goossens T, Klein U, Küppers R (1998) Frequent occurrence of deletions and duplications during somatic hypermutation: Implications for oncogene translocations and heavy chain disease. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA 95, 2463-2468

Küppers R, Kanzler H, Rajewsky K, Hansmann ML (1997) Molekulare Analyse der Hodgkin- und Reed/Sternberg-Zellen des Morbus Hodgkin mittels Mikromanipulation und Einzelzell-PCR. Maligne Lymphome Hrsg. Höffkes HG, Uppenkamp M, Springer Verlag

Fischer M, Klein U, Küppers R (1997) Molecular single cell analysis reveals that CD5-positive peripheral blood B cells in healthy humans are characterized by rearranged Vgenes lacking somatic mutation. J.Clin.Invest. 100, 1667-1676

Braeuninger A, Küppers R, Strickler JG, Wacker HH, Rajewsky K, Hansmann ML (1997) Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells in lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin's disease represent clonal populations of germinal-center derived tumor cells. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA 94, 9337-9342 (AB und RK share first authorship)

Küppers R, Roers A, Kanzler H (1997) Molecular single cell studies of normal and transformed lymphocytes.Cancer Surveys 30, 45-58

Rajewsky K, Kanzler H, Hansmann ML, Küppers R (1997) Normal and malignant B-cell development with special reference to Hodgkin's disease. Ann.Oncol. 8, S79-S81 (Suppl. 2)

Küppers R, Rajewsky K, Hansmann ML (1997) Diffuse large cell lymphomas are derived from mature B cells carrying V region genes with a high load of somatic mutation and evidence of selection for antibody expression. Eur.J.Immunol 27, 1398-1405

Klein U, Küppers R, Rajewsky K (1997) Evidence for a large compartment of IgM-expressing memory B cells. Blood 89, 1288-1298

Küppers R, Hansmann ML, Rajewsky K (1997) Micromanipulation and PCR analysis of single cells from tissue sections. Handbook of Exp. Immunol. 5th ed., Eds. D.M.Weir, C.Blackwell, L.A.Herzenberg, L.A.Herzenberg, Blackwell Scientific.

Kanzler H, Küppers R, Hansmann ML, Rajewsky K (1996) Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells in Hodgkin's disease represent the outgrowth of a dominant tumor clone derived from (crippled) germinal center B cells. J.Exp.Med. 184, 1495-1505 (HK und RK share first authorship)

Hansmann ML, Küppers R (1996) Pathology and Molecular Histology of Hodgkin's disease and the border to Non-Hodgkin lymphomas. Baillieres Clin.Haematol. 9, 459-477

Küppers R, Hajadi M, Plank L, Rajewsky K, Hansmann ML (1996) Molecular Ig gene analysis reveals that monocytoid B-cell lymphoma is a malignancy of mature B cells carrying somatically mutated V region genes and indicates that rearrangement of the kappa deleting element (resulting in deletion of the Ig kappa enhancers) abolishes somatic hypermutation in the human. Eur.J.Immunol. 26, 1794-1800

Küppers R, Kanzler H, Hansmann ML, Rajewsky K (1996) Single cell analysis of Hodgkin/Reed-Sternberg cells. Ann.Oncol. 7, S27-S30

Kanzler H, Hansmann ML, Kapp U, Wolf J, Diehl V, Rajewsky K, Küppers R (1996) Molecular single cell analysis demonstrates the derivation of a peripheral blood-derived cell line (L1236) from the Hodgkin/Reed-Sternberg cells of a Hodgkin's lymphoma patient. Blood 87, 3429-3436

Küppers R, Kanzler H, Hansmann ML, Rajewsky K (1996) Immunoglobulin V genes in Reed-Sternberg cells (Letter to the Editor). N.Engl.J.Med. 334, 404

Küppers R, Willenbrock K, Rajewsky K, Hansmann ML (1995) Detection of clonal lambda light chain gene rearrangements in frozen and paraffin-embedded tissues by polymerase chain reaction. Am.J.Pathol .147, 806-814

Franzen C, Küppers R, Müller A, Salzberger B, Fätkenheuer G, Vetten B, Diehl V, Schrappe M (1995) Genetic evidence for latent Septata intestinalis infection in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients with intestinal microsporidiosis. J. Infect. Dis. 173, 1038-1040

Klein U, Klein G, Ehlin-Henriksson B, Rajewsky K, Küppers R (1995) Burkitt's lymphoma is a malignancy of mature B cells expressing somatically mutated V region genes. Molec.Med. 1, 495-505

Küppers R, Hansmann ML, Diehl V, Rajewsky K (1995) Molecular single cell analysis of Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells. Molec.Med.Today 1, 26-30.

Ehlich A, Küppers R (1995) Analysis of immunoglobulin gene rearrangements from single B cells. Curr.Opin.Immunol. 7, 281-284.

Küppers R, Rajewsky K, Zhao M, Simons G, Laumann R, Fischer R, Hansmann ML (1994) Hodgkin disease: Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells picked from histological sections show clonal immunoglobulin gene rearrangements and appear to be derived from B cells at various stages of development. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA 91, 10962-10966.

Klein U, Küppers R, Rajewsky K (1994) Variable region gene analysis of B cell subsets derived from a 4-year-old child: somatically mutated memory B cells accumulate in the peripheral blood already at young age. J.Exp.Med. 180, 1383-1393.
 
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