Non-Hodgkin lymphoma pathophysiology
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief:
Overview
Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma represents a heterogeneous group of diseases with varied clinical presentation and histological appearance.It arises from cell of the lymphoid system, tumors are mainly derived from B lymphocytes, but are also from T lymphocytes, or natural killer cells. Lymphomas rise from different stages of B and T cell differentiation. Aberrations in the tightly controlled steps of B cell development can lead to oncogenesis. These aberrations are mainly seen in form of chromosomal translocation.
Pathophysiology
Pathogenesis
- Lymphomas can arise from different stages of B cell development:
- B cell development starts in the primary lymphoid tissue, the bone marrow and subsequent maturation takes place in secondary lymphoid tissue (spleen and lymph nodes).
- At the germinal centers of secondary lymphoid tissue B cells encounter antigens via T cells and then undergo affinity maturation to produce immunoglobulins of high affinity.
- It supports rapid B-cell proliferation for immunoglobulin affinity maturation and production of antibody diversity through two processes know as somatic hypermutation (SHM) and immunoglobulin class switching.
- Both of these processes require rapid cell turnover and multiple double stranded DNA breaks, which is error-prone.
- Somatically acquired genetic alterations ( mainly translocations) of these processes is probably the underlying cause of lymphomagenesis.
- The major subtypes of non-hodgkin lymphoma include the following:
- Mature B-cell neoplasms:
- Diffuse large B cell lymphoma
- Follicular lymphoma
- Burkitt lymphoma
- Mantle cell lymphoma
- Hairy cell leukemia
- Extranodal marginal zone lymphoma
- Splenic marginal zone lymphoma
- Plasma cell myeloma
- Mature T and NK neoplasms:
- Mature B-cell neoplasms:
References
Genetics
The development of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is the result of multiple genetic mutations such as:[1][2]
- Mutations of the B-cell receptor genes and NFKB pathway
- RNA splicing mutations in the small lymphocytic lymphoma
- Genetic mutations in histone formation:[3]
- MLL2
- MEF2B
- EZH2
- CREBBP
- EP300
- MLL2
References
- ↑ Pasqualucci L, Trifonov V, Fabbri G, Ma J, Rossi D, Chiarenza A; et al. (2011). "Analysis of the coding genome of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma". Nat Genet. 43 (9): 830–7. doi:10.1038/ng.892. PMC 3297422. PMID 21804550.
- ↑ Lohr JG, Stojanov P, Lawrence MS, Auclair D, Chapuy B, Sougnez C; et al. (2012). "Discovery and prioritization of somatic mutations in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) by whole-exome sequencing". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 109 (10): 3879–84. doi:10.1073/pnas.1121343109. PMC 3309757. PMID 22343534.
- ↑ Green MR, Gentles AJ, Nair RV, Irish JM, Kihira S, Liu CL; et al. (2013). "Hierarchy in somatic mutations arising during genomic evolution and progression of follicular lymphoma". Blood. 121 (9): 1604–11. doi:10.1182/blood-2012-09-457283. PMC 3587323. PMID 23297126.