Transcription factor CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein alpha and critical circadian clock downstream target gene PER2 are highly deregulated in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Disturbances of circadian rhythms and mammalian clock genes have been implicated in the etiologies of many chronic illnesses, including cancer. We show that transcription factor CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein alpha (C/EBPalpha)-regulated PER2 activation is a potential tumor suppressor pathway in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), one of the commonest types of mature B-cell lymphoma. Expression analysis of human B-cell lymphoma samples including DLBCL (n = 50), mantle cell (n = 21), follicular (n = 25) and Burkitt (n = 18) lymphoma revealed markedly down-regulated CEBPA and PER2 mRNA levels exclusively in DLBCL samples compared to control lymphatic tissue.

Identified hidden genomic changes in mantle cell lymphoma using high-resolution single nucleotide polymorphism genomic array.

Objective: Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a lymphoma characterized by aberrant activation of CCND1/cyclin D1 followed by sequential genetic abnormalities. Genomic abnormalities in MCL have been extensively examined by classical cytogenetics and microarray-based comparative genomic hybridization techniques, pointing out a number of alterations in genomic regions that correlate with the neoplastic phenotype and survival. Recently, single nucleotide polymorphism genomic microarrays (SNP-chip) have been developed and used for analysis of cancer genomics.