Gene Review:
Bcl6 - B cell leukemia/lymphoma 6
Mus musculus
Synonyms:
B-cell lymphoma 6 protein homolog, Bcl-6, Bcl5
- Disruption of the Bcl6 gene results in an impaired germinal center formation. Fukuda, T., Yoshida, T., Okada, S., Hatano, M., Miki, T., Ishibashi, K., Okabe, S., Koseki, H., Hirosawa, S., Taniguchi, M., Miyasaka, N., Tokuhisa, T. J. Exp. Med. (1997)
- The role of Bcl6 in mature cardiac myocytes. Yoshida, T., Fukuda, T., Hatano, M., Koseki, H., Okabe, S., Ishibashi, K., Kojima, S., Arima, M., Komuro, I., Ishii, G., Miki, T., Hirosawa, S., Miyasaka, N., Taniguchi, M., Ochiai, T., Isono, K., Tokuhisa, T. Cardiovasc. Res. (1999)
- Simian AIDS-related lymphoma growth in severe combined immunodeficiency mice is independent of karyotypic abnormalities or Bcl-6 mutations. Castaños-Vélez, E., Heiden, T., Lindvall, C., Capello, D., Sandlund, A., Imreh, S., Blennow, E., Andersson, L.C., Gaidano, G., Nordenskjöld, M., Biberfeld, P. AIDS Res. Hum. Retroviruses (2002)
- Memory B cells without somatic hypermutation are generated from Bcl6-deficient B cells. Toyama, H., Okada, S., Hatano, M., Takahashi, Y., Takeda, N., Ichii, H., Takemori, T., Kuroda, Y., Tokuhisa, T. Immunity (2002)
- Role for Bcl-6 in the generation and maintenance of memory CD8+ T cells. Ichii, H., Sakamoto, A., Hatano, M., Okada, S., Toyama, H., Taki, S., Arima, M., Kuroda, Y., Tokuhisa, T. Nat. Immunol. (2002)
- BCL6 suppresses RhoA activity to alter macrophage morphology and motility. Pixley, F.J., Xiong, Y., Yu, R.Y., Sahai, E.A., Stanley, E.R., Ye, B.H. J. Cell. Sci. (2005)
- A novel nuclear phosphoprotein, GANP, is up-regulated in centrocytes of the germinal center and associated with MCM3, a protein essential for DNA replication. Kuwahara, K., Yoshida, M., Kondo, E., Sakata, A., Watanabe, Y., Abe, E., Kouno, Y., Tomiyasu, S., Fujimura, S., Tokuhisa, T., Kimura, H., Ezaki, T., Sakaguchi, N. Blood (2000)
- BAZF, a novel Bcl6 homolog, functions as a transcriptional repressor. Okabe, S., Fukuda, T., Ishibashi, K., Kojima, S., Okada, S., Hatano, M., Ebara, M., Saisho, H., Tokuhisa, T. Mol. Cell. Biol. (1998)
- Testicular germ cell apoptosis in Bcl6-deficient mice. Kojima, S., Hatano, M., Okada, S., Fukuda, T., Toyama, Y., Yuasa, S., Ito, H., Tokuhisa, T. Development (2001)
- A putative silencer element in the IL-5 gene recognized by Bcl6. Arima, M., Toyama, H., Ichii, H., Kojima, S., Okada, S., Hatano, M., Cheng, G., Kubo, M., Fukuda, T., Tokuhisa, T. J. Immunol. (2002)
- Different kinetics of blimp-1 induction in B cell subsets revealed by reporter gene. Fairfax, K.A., Corcoran, L.M., Pridans, C., Huntington, N.D., Kallies, A., Nutt, S.L., Tarlinton, D.M. J. Immunol. (2007)
- CpG inhibits IgE class switch recombination through suppression of NF kappa B activity, but not through Id2 or Bcl6. Kusunoki, T., Sugai, M., Gonda, H., Nambu, Y., Nagata-Nakajima, N., Katakai, T., Kusunoki, M., Sakamoto, A., Tokuhisa, T., Nakahata, T., Yokota, Y., Shimizu, A. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. (2005)
- Direct repression of prdm1 by Bcl-6 inhibits plasmacytic differentiation. Tunyaplin, C., Shaffer, A.L., Angelin-Duclos, C.D., Yu, X., Staudt, L.M., Calame, K.L. J. Immunol. (2004)
- Regulatory events in early and late B-cell differentiation. Johnson, K., Shapiro-Shelef, M., Tunyaplin, C., Calame, K. Mol. Immunol. (2005)
- A new functional domain of Bcl6 family that recruits histone deacetylases. Zhang, H., Okada, S., Hatano, M., Okabe, S., Tokuhisa, T. Biochim. Biophys. Acta (2001)
- Bcl6 is a transcriptional repressor for the IL-18 gene. Takeda, N., Arima, M., Tsuruoka, N., Okada, S., Hatano, M., Sakamoto, A., Kohno, Y., Tokuhisa, T. J. Immunol. (2003)
- Bcl6 acts as an amplifier for the generation and proliferative capacity of central memory CD8+ T cells. Ichii, H., Sakamoto, A., Kuroda, Y., Tokuhisa, T. J. Immunol. (2004)