The same approach was utilized in healthy B-lymphocytes compared to chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells (CLL) where PTPRG activation was found to inhibit adhesion by preventing the LFA-1 high-affinity state transition induced by CXCL12 or BCR necessary to bind on both ICAM-1 and VCAM1. Here, BCR is linked to B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia.