Intriguingly, a relatively highly expanded Vβ9 clone with the same length as complementarity- determining region 3 (CDR3) (139 bp) was found in all three CML patients in lymphoid blast crisis (LBC-CML) who had different KDMs, but the clone was not detected in the only CML patient in myeloid blast crisis (MBC-CML).
This method, which is based on polymerase chain reaction amplification of all CDR3 regions using the T-cell receptor (TCR) Vbeta genes, was used to examine serial samples of peripheral blood lymphocytes from 11 adult patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) who underwent T-cell-depleted allogeneic BMT.
We used third complementarity region (CDR3) size spectratyping as a tool for monitoring T-cell repertoire reconstitution in 19 patients over a median time of 40 months after T-cell-depleted allogeneic BMT for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML).