To this end we cloned the V gene segment of the Ig light (VL) locus from an unmutated CLL (U-CLL, for details see Methods) sample and expressed it constitutively in a variant of the human Burkitt lymphoma cell line DG75, which has lost expression of its endogenous mIgM-BCR (mIgMneg). This evidence concerns the gene BCR and Burkitt lymphoma.