{"doi":"10.1101/2021.02.23.432500","title":"Integrative analyses uncover mechanisms by which aging drives B cell lymphoma","abstract":"Abstract While cancer is an age-related disease, many cancer studies utilize younger animal models. Here, we uncover how a cancer, B-cell lymphoma, develops as a consequence of a naturally aged system. We show that this malignancy is associated with increased cell size, splenomegaly, and a newly discovered age-associated clonal B-cell (ACBC) population. Driven by exogenous c-Myc activation, hypermethylated promoters and somatic mutations, ACBC cells clonally expand independent of germinal centers (IgM+) and show increased biological age and hypomethylation in partially methylated domains related to mitotic solo-CpGs. Epigenetic changes in transformed mouse B cells are enriched for changes observed in human B-cell lymphomas. Mechanistically, the data suggest that cancerous ACBC cells originate from age-associated B cells, in part involving CD22 protein signaling fostered by the aging microenvironment. Transplantation assays demonstrate that ACBC evolve to become self-sufficient and support malignancy when transferred into young recipients. Inhibition of mTOR or c-Myc in old mice attenuates premalignant changes in B cells during aging and emerges as a therapeutic strategy to delay the onset of age-related lymphoma. Together, we show how aging contributes to B-cell lymphoma through a previously unrecognized mechanism involving cell-intrinsic changes and the aged microenvironment, characterize a model that captures the origin and progression of spontaneous cancer during aging and identify candidate interventions against age-associated lymphoma.","journal":"bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)","year":2021,"id":216418,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":4,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9537,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2021-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":372061,"name":"Anastasia V. 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