1: Ex-Vivo signal Transduction Studies in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Karly-Rai Rogers-Broadway, Laura Karydis, Rachel C Dobson, and Andrew J Steele
2: Ex vivo Pharmacological Profiling in Chronic Lymphocytic LeukemiaCells
Burcu Aslan, Mary L. Ayres, and Varsha Gandhi
3: Culture and Harvest of CpG-stimulated Blood and Bone Marrow in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Cecelia R. Miller andNyla A. Heerema
4: Analysis of Common Abnormalities seen in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia using Fluorescence in situ Hybridization
Reid G. Meyer and Daniel L. Van Dyke
5: Immunoglobulin Gene Analysis in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Andreas Agathangelidis, Richard Rosenquist, Frederic Davi, Paolo Ghia, Chrysoula Belessi, Anastasia Hadzidimitriou, and Kostas Stamatopoulos
6: Detection and Functional Analysis of TP53 Mutations in CLL
Sarka Pavlova, Jana Smardova, Nikola Tom, and Martin Trbusek
7: The Development and Use of Scalable Systems for Studying Aberrant Splicing in SF3B1-mutant CLL
Tushar Murthy, Kiran V. Paul, Alexander C. Minella, and Manoj M. Pillai
8: Methods for Investigating VLA-4 (CD49d/CD29) Expression and Activation in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and its Clinical Applications
Antonella Zucchetto, Erika Tissino, Alexander Chigaev, Tanja Nicole Hartmann,and Valter Gattei
9: In vitro Assay to Study CLL and Monocyte Interactions
Maria Teresa Sabrina Bertilaccio, Ronghua Zhang, Priyanka Banerjee, and Varsha Gandhi
10: Extracellular Flux Assays to Determine Oxidative Phosphorylation and Glycolysis in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Cells
Hima V. Vangapandu and Varsha Gandhi
11: Measurement of Leukemic B-cell Growth Kinetics in Patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Andrea N. Mazzarello, Mark Fitch, Marc K. Hellerstein, and Nicholas Chiorazzi
12: Assays on DNA Damage and Repair in CLL
Tzung-Huei Lai and Deepa Sampath
13: Method for Generating a Patient-Derived Xenograft Model of CLL
Shih-Shih Chen
14: Immunological Methods to Study Monoclonal Antibody Activity in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
MJ Carter, LN Dahal, KLS Cleary, MJE Marshall, RR French, SA Beers, and MS Cragg
15: CRISPR/Cas9-based Gene Dropout Screens
Kai Wu and Sami N. Malek
16: Gene Disruption using CRISPR-Cas9 Technology
Nan Hu and Sami N. Malek
17: Minimal Residual Disease Quantification in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Clinical Significance and Flow Cytometric Methods
Sebastian Böttcher
18: Rare Variant Quantitation Using Droplet Digital PCR
Brian Parkin
19: Methods for Measuring ctDNA in Lymphomas
Davide Rossi,Adalgisa Condoluci,Valeria Spina, and Gianluca Gaidano
20: Measurement of miRNAs in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Patient Samples by Quantitative Reverse Transcription PCR
Katrien Van Roosbroeck, Recep Bayraktar,and George A. Calin
21: Bioinformatics Analysis of Whole Exome Sequencing Data
Peter J. Ulintz,Weisheng Wu,and Chris M. Gates
22: Genome Sequencing and Analysis Methods in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Víctor Quesada, Miguel Araujo-Voces, José G. Pérez-Silva, Gloria Velasco, and Carlos López-Otín
23: Characterization of Somatically-acquired Copy Number Alterations in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia using Shallow Whole Genome Sequencing
Helen Parker, Louise Carr, Sharma Syeda, Dean Bryant, and Jonathan C Strefford
24: High-throughput Sequencing of the T Cell Receptor Beta Chain Gene Repertoire in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Vlachonikola E, Vardi A, Stamatopoulos K, and Hadzidimitriou A
This book aims to provide scientists with tools and well-researched protocols to enable their research and to facilitate further progress in this common leukemia. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.
Authoritative and cutting-edge, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Methods and Protocols aims to accelerate research on chronic lymphocytic leukemia and further improvements in patient outcomes.