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Cellosaurus U-138MG (CVCL_0020)

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Cell line name U-138MG
Synonyms U-138 MG; U-138-MG; U138-MG; U 138 MG; U138MG; U138; 138 MG; 138MG
Accession CVCL_0020
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: U-138MG (RRID:CVCL_0020)
Comments Part of: Cancer Dependency Map project (DepMap) (includes Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia - CCLE).
Part of: Human Protein Atlas, Cell Atlas panel.
Population: Caucasian.
Doubling time: 47 hours (PubMed=9842975); ~70 hours (DSMZ=ACC-291).
Omics: Genomics; Whole exome sequencing.
Omics: Proteomics; Expression; Large antibody panel staining analysis.
Omics: Transcriptomics; Microarray.
Omics: Transcriptomics; RNAseq.
Omics: Variations; CNV analysis.
Omics: Variations; SNP array analysis.
Derived from site: In situ; Brain; UBERON=UBERON_0000955.
Sequence variations
  • Gene deletion; HGNC; HGNC:1787; CDKN2A; Zygosity=Homozygous (PubMed=9842975).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:5382; IDH1; None_reported; -; Zygosity=- (PubMed=19435942).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:9588; PTEN; Simple; c.1026+1G>T (IVS8+1G>T); ClinVar=VCV000635377; Zygosity=Homozygous; Note=Splice donor mutation (DepMap=ACH-001214).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:11998; TP53; Simple; p.Arg213Gln (c.638G>A); ClinVar=VCV000135359; Zygosity=Homozygous (PubMed=10416987; DepMap=ACH-001214).
Genome ancestry Source: PubMed=30894373

Origin% genome
African1.64
Native American0
East Asian, North1.56
East Asian, South0
South Asian0
European, North96.13
European, South0.67
Disease Astrocytoma (NCIt: C60781)
Astrocytoma (ORDO: Orphanet_94)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Children:
CVCL_0633 (U-118MG)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling 47Y
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): ATCC=HTB-16; CLS=300363; DSMZ=ACC-291; PubMed=22570425; PubMed=27582061

Markers:
AmelogeninX,Y
CSF1PO11,12 (PubMed=27582061)
12 (ATCC=HTB-16; CLS=300363; DSMZ=ACC-291; PubMed=22570425)
D2S133823,25
D3S135815
D5S81811
D7S8209
D8S117914,15
D13S3179,11
D16S53912,13
D18S5113
D19S43313
D21S1127,32.2
FGA18,23
Penta D9,13 (ATCC=HTB-16; CLS=300363; DSMZ=ACC-291; PubMed=22570425)
10,13 (PubMed=27582061)
Penta E7 (ATCC=HTB-16; CLS=300363; DSMZ=ACC-291; PubMed=22570425)
7,13 (PubMed=27582061)
TH016
TPOX8
vWA18

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Web pages Info; ATCC; -; https://www.atcc.org/en/support/technical-support/faqs/u-118-mg-atcc-htb-15-u-138-mg-atcc-htb-16
Info; HPA; -; https://www.proteinatlas.org/learn/cellines
Provider; NIBSC; 0028; http://www.nibsc.org/Default.aspx?pageid=597&id=0028&theme=default
Publications

PubMed=4313504; DOI=10.1111/j.1699-0463.1968.tb03502.x
Jan Ponten, Elisabeth H. Macintyre;
Long term culture of normal and neoplastic human glia.
Acta Pathol. Microbiol. Scand. 74:465-486(1968)

PubMed=4337530; DOI=10.1111/j.1699-0463.1972.tb02176.x
Elisabeth H. Macintyre, Jan Ponten, Albert E. Vatter;
The ultrastructure of human and murine astrocytes and of human fibroblasts in culture.
Acta Pathol. Microbiol. Scand. A. 80:267-283(1972)

PubMed=4134536; DOI=10.1002/ijc.2910120215
Bengt Westermark;
The deficient density-dependent growth control of human malignant glioma cells and virus-transformed glia-like cells in culture.
Int. J. Cancer 12:438-451(1973)

PubMed=4369403; DOI=10.1002/1097-0142(197408)34:2<274::AID-CNCR2820340209>3.0.CO;2-4
Torsten Wahlstrom, Ewert Linder, Eero Saksela, Bengt Westermark;
Tumor-specific membrane antigens in established cell lines from gliomas.
Cancer 34:274-279(1974)

DOI=10.1007/978-1-4757-1647-4_7
Jan Ponten;
Neoplastic human glia cells in culture.
(In book chapter) Human tumor cells in vitro; Fogh, Jorgen (eds.); pp.175-206; Springer; New York; USA (1975)

PubMed=833871; DOI=10.1093/jnci/58.2.209
Jorgen Fogh, William C. Wright, James D. Loveless;
Absence of HeLa cell contamination in 169 cell lines derived from human tumors.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 58:209-214(1977)

PubMed=450131; DOI=10.1038/279797a0
Rufus S. Day 3rd, Chuck H.J. Ziolkowski;
Human brain tumour cell strains with deficient host-cell reactivation of N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine-damaged adenovirus 5.
Nature 279:797-799(1979)

PubMed=22282976; DOI=10.1093/carcin/1.1.21
Rufus S. Day 3rd, Chuck H.J. Ziolkowski, Dominic A. Scudiero, Sharon A. Meyer, Michael R. Mattern;
Human tumor cell strains defective in the repair of alkylation damage.
Carcinogenesis 1:21-32(1980)

PubMed=6260907; DOI=10.1097/00005072-198105000-00001
Darell Doty Bigner, Sandra H. Bigner, Jan Ponten, Bengt Westermark, Moses Stephen Mahaley Jr., Erkki Ruoslahti, Harvey R. Herschman, Lawrence F. Eng, Carol J. Wikstrand;
Heterogeneity of genotypic and phenotypic characteristics of fifteen permanent cell lines derived from human gliomas.
J. Neuropathol. Exp. Neurol. 40:201-229(1981)

PubMed=6220172
Nicholas C. Dracopoli, Jorgen Fogh;
Polymorphic enzyme analysis of cultured human tumor cell lines.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 70:469-476(1983)

PubMed=6582512; DOI=10.1073/pnas.81.2.568; PMCID=PMC344720
Michael Jules Mattes, Carlos Cordon-Cardo, John L. Lewis Jr., Lloyd John Old, Kenneth Oliver Lloyd;
Cell surface antigens of human ovarian and endometrial carcinoma defined by mouse monoclonal antibodies.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 81:568-572(1984)

PubMed=3518877; DOI=10.3109/07357908609038260
Jorgen Fogh;
Human tumor lines for cancer research.
Cancer Invest. 4:157-184(1986)

PubMed=3675803
Sandra H. Bigner, Rolf Bjerkvig, Ole Didrik Laerum, Laurence H. Muhlbaier, Darell Doty Bigner;
DNA content and chromosomes in permanent cultured cell lines derived from malignant human gliomas.
Anal. Quant. Cytol. Histol. 9:435-444(1987)

PubMed=2454731
Monica Nister, Towia Aron Libermann, Christer Betsholtz, Monica Pettersson, Lena Claesson-Welsh, Carl-Henrik Heldin, Joseph Schlessinger, Bengt Westermark;
Expression of messenger RNAs for platelet-derived growth factor and transforming growth factor-alpha and their receptors in human malignant glioma cell lines.
Cancer Res. 48:3910-3918(1988)

DOI=10.1016/B978-0-12-333530-2.50005-8
Monica Nister, Bengt Westermark;
Human glioma cell lines.
(In book chapter) Atlas of human tumor cell lines; Hay, Robert J. & Park, Jae-Gahb & Gazdar, Adi F. (eds.); pp.17-42; Academic Press; New York; USA (1994)

PubMed=9842975; DOI=10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19981218)79:6<640::AID-IJC15>3.0.CO;2-Z
Michael Weller, Johannes Rieger, Cornelia Grimmel, Erwin G. Van Meir, Nicolas De Tribolet, Stanislaw Krajewski, John C. Reed, Andreas von Deimling, Johannes Dichgans;
Predicting chemoresistance in human malignant glioma cells: the role of molecular genetic analyses.
Int. J. Cancer 79:640-644(1998)

PubMed=10416987; DOI=10.1111/j.1750-3639.1999.tb00536.x; PMCID=PMC8098486
Nobuaki Ishii, Daniel Maier, Adrian Merlo, Mitsuhiro Tada, Yutaka Sawamura, Annie-Claire Diserens, Erwin G. Van Meir;
Frequent co-alterations of TP53, p16/CDKN2A, p14ARF, PTEN tumor suppressor genes in human glioma cell lines.
Brain Pathol. 9:469-479(1999)

PubMed=14614447; DOI=10.1038/sj.onc.1207198
Jorg Wischhusen, Ulrike Naumann, Hiroko Ohgaki, Farzan Rastinejad, Michael Weller;
CP-31398, a novel p53-stabilizing agent, induces p53-dependent and p53-independent glioma cell death.
Oncogene 22:8233-8245(2003)

PubMed=14655754; DOI=10.1111/j.1750-3639.2003.tb00479.x; PMCID=PMC8095903
Oliver Bahr, Johannes Rieger, Frank Duffner, Richard Meyermann, Michael Weller, Wolfgang Wick;
P-glycoprotein and multidrug resistance-associated protein mediate specific patterns of multidrug resistance in malignant glioma cell lines, but not in primary glioma cells.
Brain Pathol. 13:482-494(2003)

PubMed=14961077; DOI=10.1038/sj.onc.1207244
Ying-Lin Wang, Shao-Jun Zhu, Timothy Frances Cloughesy, Linda M. Liau, Paul Salomon Mischel;
p53 disruption profoundly alters the response of human glioblastoma cells to DNA topoisomerase I inhibition.
Oncogene 23:1283-1290(2004)

PubMed=16697959; DOI=10.1016/j.ccr.2006.03.030
Jeongwu Lee, Svetlana Kotliarova, Yuri Kotliarov, Ai-Guo Li, Qin Su, Nicholas Murray Donin, Sandra Pastorino, Benjamin W. Purow, Neil Christopher, Wei Zhang, John K. Park, Howard Alan Fine;
Tumor stem cells derived from glioblastomas cultured in bFGF and EGF more closely mirror the phenotype and genotype of primary tumors than do serum-cultured cell lines.
Cancer Cell 9:391-403(2006)

PubMed=16957166; DOI=10.1369/jhc.6A7001.2006; PMCID=PMC3958123
Ann-Catrin Andersson, Sara Stromberg, Helena Backvall, Caroline Kampf, Mathias Uhlen, Kenneth Wester, Fredrik Ponten;
Analysis of protein expression in cell microarrays: a tool for antibody-based proteomics.
J. Histochem. Cytochem. 54:1413-1423(2006)

PubMed=17595512; DOI=10.1159/000104150
Johannes Rieger, Brigitte Frank, Michael Weller, Wolfgang Wick;
Mechanisms of resistance of human glioma cells to Apo2 ligand/TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand.
Cell. Physiol. Biochem. 20:23-34(2007)

PubMed=19365568; DOI=10.1371/journal.pone.0005209; PMCID=PMC2666263
Dorine Arjanne Bax, Suzanne E. Little, Nathalie Gaspar, Lara Perryman, Lynley Marshall, Marta Viana-Pereira, Tania A. Jones, Richard D. Williams, Anita Grigoriadis, Gilles Vassal, Paul Workman ...Show all 16 authors... , Denise Sheer, Rui Manuel Reis, Andrew D.J. Pearson, Darren Hargrave, Chris Jones; Show fewer authors
Molecular and phenotypic characterisation of paediatric glioma cell lines as models for preclinical drug development.
PLoS ONE 4:e5209.1-e5209.9(2009)

PubMed=19435942; DOI=10.1215/15228517-2009-025; PMCID=PMC2743214
Koichi Ichimura, Danita M. Pearson, Sylvia Kocialkowski, L. Magnus Backlund, Raymond Chan, David T.W. Jones, Vincent Peter Collins;
IDH1 mutations are present in the majority of common adult gliomas but rare in primary glioblastomas.
Neuro-oncol. 11:341-347(2009)

PubMed=20215515; DOI=10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-3458; PMCID=PMC2881662
S. Michael Rothenberg, Gayatry Mohapatra, Miguel N. Rivera, Daniel Winokur, Patricia Greninger, Mai Nitta, Peter M. Sadow, Gaya Sooriyakumar, Brian W. Brannigan, Matthew J. Ulman, Rushika M. Perera ...Show all 22 authors... , Rui Wang, Angela Tam, Xiao-Jun Ma, Mark Erlander, Dennis C. Sgroi, James W. Rocco, Mark W. Lingen, Ezra E.W. Cohen, David Neil Louis, Jeffrey Settleman, Daniel Arie Haber; Show fewer authors
A genome-wide screen for microdeletions reveals disruption of polarity complex genes in diverse human cancers.
Cancer Res. 70:2158-2164(2010)

PubMed=22460905; DOI=10.1038/nature11003; PMCID=PMC3320027
Jordi Ginesta Barretina, Giordano Caponigro, Nicolas Stransky, Kavitha Venkatesan, Adam A. Margolin, Sungjoon Kim, Christopher J. Wilson, Joseph Lehar, Gregory V. Kryukov, Dmitriy Sonkin, Anupama Reddy ...Show all 61 authors... , Manway Liu, Lauren Murray, Michael F. Berger, John E. Monahan, Paula Morais, Jodi Meltzer, Adam Korejwa, Judit Jane-Valbuena, Felipa A. Mapa, Joseph Thibault, Eva Bric-Furlong, Pichai Raman, Aaron Shipway, Ingo H. Engels, Jill Cheng, Guo-Ying K. Yu, Jian-Jun Yu, Peter Aspesi Jr., Melanie de Silva, Kalpana Jagtap, Michael D. Jones, Li Wang, Charles Hatton, Emanuele Palescandolo, Supriya Gupta, Scott Mahan, Carrie Sougnez, Robert C. Onofrio, Ted Liefeld, Laura E. MacConaill, Wendy Winckler, Michael Reich, Nan-Xin Li, Jill P. Mesirov, Stacey B. Gabriel, Gad Getz, Kristin Ardlie, Vivien Chan, Vic E. Myer, Barbara L. Weber, Jeff Porter, Markus Warmuth, Peter Finan, Jennifer L. Harris, Matthew Langer Meyerson, Todd Robert Golub, Michael P. Morrissey, William Raj Sellers, Robert Schlegel, Levi Alexander Garraway; Show fewer authors
The Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia enables predictive modelling of anticancer drug sensitivity.
Nature 483:603-607(2012)

PubMed=22570425; DOI=10.1093/neuonc/nos072; PMCID=PMC3367844
Pierre Bady, Annie-Claire Diserens, Vincent Castella, Stefanie Kalt, Karl Heinimann, Marie-France Hamou, Mauro Delorenzi, Monika E. Hegi;
DNA fingerprinting of glioma cell lines and considerations on similarity measurements.
Neuro-oncol. 14:701-711(2012)

PubMed=27582061; DOI=10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf6853
Marie Allen, Mia Bjerke, Hanna Edlund, Sven Nelander, Bengt Westermark;
Origin of the U87MG glioma cell line: good news and bad news.
Sci. Transl. Med. 8:354re3.1-354re3.4(2016)

PubMed=30894373; DOI=10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-18-2747; PMCID=PMC6445675
Julie Dutil, Zhi-Hua Chen, Alvaro N.A. Monteiro, Jamie K. Teer, Steven A. Eschrich;
An interactive resource to probe genetic diversity and estimated ancestry in cancer cell lines.
Cancer Res. 79:1263-1273(2019)

PubMed=31068700; DOI=10.1038/s41586-019-1186-3; PMCID=PMC6697103
Mahmoud Ghandi, Franklin W. Huang, Judit Jane-Valbuena, Gregory V. Kryukov, Christopher C. Lo, E. Robert McDonald 3rd, Jordi Ginesta Barretina, Ellen T. Gelfand, Craig M. Bielski, Hao-Xin Li, Kevin Hu ...Show all 68 authors... , Alexander Y. Andreev-Drakhlin, Jaegil Kim, Julian M. Hess, Brian J. Haas, Francois Aguet, Barbara A. Weir, Michael V. Rothberg, Brenton R. Paolella, Michael Scott Lawrence, Rehan Akbani, Yi-Ling Lu, Hong L. Tiv, Prafulla C. Gokhale, Antoine de Weck, Ali Amin Mansour, Coyin Oh, Juliann Shih, Kevin Hadi, Yanay Rosen, Jonathan Bistline, Kavitha Venkatesan, Anupama Reddy, Dmitriy Sonkin, Manway Liu, Joseph Lehar, Joshua M. Korn, Dale A. Porter, Michael D. Jones, Javad Golji, Giordano Caponigro, Jordan E. Taylor, Caitlin M. Dunning, Amanda L. Creech, Allison C. Warren, James M. McFarland, Mahdi Zamanighomi, Audrey Kauffmann, Nicolas Stransky, Marcin Imielinski, Yosef E. Maruvka, Andrew D. Cherniack, Aviad Tsherniak, Francisca Vazquez, Jacob D. Jaffe, Andrew Alan Lane, David M. Weinstock, Cory M. Johannessen, Michael P. Morrissey, Frank Stegmeier, Robert Schlegel, William Chun Hahn, Gad Getz, Gordon B. Mills, Jesse S. Boehm, Todd Robert Golub, Levi Alexander Garraway, William Raj Sellers; Show fewer authors
Next-generation characterization of the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia.
Nature 569:503-508(2019)

PubMed=33385022; DOI=10.1016/j.dib.2020.106643; PMCID=PMC7772531
Juliana Ferreira de Sousa, Patrick da Silva, Rodolfo Bortolozo Serafim, Ricardo Perecin Nociti, Cristiano Gallina Moreira, Wilson Araujo Silva, Valeria Valente;
RNA sequencing data of different grade astrocytoma cell lines.
Data Brief 34:106643.1-106643.13(2021)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) ATCC; HTB-16
BCRJ; 0239
CLS; 300363
DSMZ; ACC-291
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0009452
CLO; CLO_0009453
CLDB; cl4577
cancercelllines; CVCL_0020
Cell_Model_Passport; SIDM01192
DepMap; ACH-001214
DSMZCellDive; ACC-291
IGRhCellID; U138MG
LINCS_LDP; LCL-1359
Lonza; 104
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0002127
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN01821604
BioSample; SAMN01821668
BioSample; SAMN03472727
BioSample; SAMN10987758
CRISP screens repositories BioGRID_ORCS_Cell_line; 1536
Chemistry resources ChEMBL-Cells; CHEMBL4295387
ChEMBL-Targets; CHEMBL4296506
PharmacoDB; U138MG_1617_2019
PubChem_Cell_line; CVCL_0020
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54973513
Gene expression databases ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-38
GEO; GSM101673
GEO; GSM101674
GEO; GSM326234
GEO; GSM887719
GEO; GSM888813
GEO; GSM7701433
GEO; GSM7701434
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 755288
Cosmic; 850744
Cosmic; 1571920
Cosmic; 1610739
Cosmic; 1746952
Cosmic; 2060806
Cosmic; 2301555
Cosmic; 2302317
Cosmic; 2580917
Cosmic; 2701085
Progenetix; CVCL_0020
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update14-Aug-2025
Version number45