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Ralf Küppers

Researcher at University of Duisburg-Essen

Publications -  306
Citations -  27068

Ralf Küppers is an academic researcher from University of Duisburg-Essen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Germinal center & Lymphoma. The author has an hindex of 77, co-authored 283 publications receiving 24677 citations. Previous affiliations of Ralf Küppers include University of Cologne & Columbia University.

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Human Immunoglobulin (Ig)M+IgD+ Peripheral Blood B Cells Expressing the CD27 Cell Surface Antigen Carry Somatically Mutated Variable Region Genes: CD27 as a General Marker for Somatically Mutated (Memory) B Cells

TL;DR: It is reported here that human IgM+IgD+ peripheral blood (PB) B cells expressing the CD27 cell surface antigen carry mutated V genes, in contrast to CD27-negative IgM-only tonsillar germinal center and plasma cells, which may represent a general marker for memory B cells in humans.
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Hypermutation of multiple proto-oncogenes in B-cell diffuse large-cell lymphomas

TL;DR: It is reported that an aberrant hypermutation activity targets multiple loci, including the proto-oncogenes PIM1, MYC, RhoH/TTF (ARHH) and PAX5, in more than 50% of diffuse large-cell lymphomas (DLCLs), which are tumours derived from germinal centres.
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The landscape of genomic alterations across childhood cancers

Susanne Gröbner, +185 more
- 15 Mar 2018 - 
TL;DR: The data suggest that 7–8% of the children in this cohort carry an unambiguous predisposing germline variant and that nearly 50% of paediatric neoplasms harbour a potentially druggable event, which is highly relevant for the design of future clinical trials.
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Mechanisms of B-cell lymphoma pathogenesis

TL;DR: In several B-cell malignancies antigen activation of lymphoma cells through BCR signalling seems to be an important factor for lymphoma pathogenesis, and insights into the lymphomagenic role of factors supplied by the microenvironment also offer new therapeutic strategies.
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Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells in Hodgkin's disease represent the outgrowth of a dominant tumor clone derived from (crippled) germinal center B cells.

TL;DR: Analysis of HRS cells micromanipulated from infiltrated tissue sections of 10 primary HD patients for rearranged V genes suggests that the HRS cell precursors reside inside GCs, have acquired crippling mutations that prevent antigenic selection, but escape apoptosis through some transforming event.