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Cellosaurus U-251MG (CVCL_0021)

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Cell line name U-251MG
Synonyms U-251 MG; U-251-MG; U-251_MG; U251-MG; U251MG; U-251; U251; U251n; U251N; 251 MG; 251MG; 251 MG(6)
Accession CVCL_0021
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: U-251MG (RRID:CVCL_0021)
Comments Part of: Cancer Dependency Map project (DepMap) (includes Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia - CCLE).
Part of: COSMIC cell lines project.
Part of: Human Protein Atlas, Cell Atlas panel.
Part of: JFCR39 cancer cell line panel.
Part of: MD Anderson Cell Lines Project.
Part of: NCI-60 cancer cell line panel.
Population: Caucasian.
Doubling time: 23 hours (PubMed=9842975); 24 hours (PubMed=25984343); 23.8 hours (NCI-DTP=U-251).
Microsatellite instability: Stable (MSS) (Sanger).
Omics: Genomics; DNA methylation analysis.
Omics: Genomics; Whole exome sequencing.
Omics: Metabolomics.
Omics: Phenotyping; CRISPR screening.
Omics: Phenotyping; Drug screening.
Omics: Phenotyping; Fluorescent probe library screening.
Omics: Phenotyping; shRNA library screening.
Omics: Proteomics.
Omics: Proteomics; Expression; Large antibody panel staining analysis.
Omics: Proteomics; Expression; Reverse-phase protein array.
Omics: Proteomics; Quantitative.
Omics: Proteomics; Subcellular; Cell surface.
Omics: Transcriptomics; lncRNA profiling; RT-qPCR platform.
Omics: Transcriptomics; Microarray.
Omics: Transcriptomics; RNAseq.
Omics: Variations; Array-based CGH.
Omics: Variations; CNV analysis.
Omics: Variations; SNP array analysis.
Derived from site: In situ; Brain, parietal lobe; UBERON=UBERON_0001872.
Sequence variations
HLA typing Source: PubMed=77569
Class I
HLA-AA*01,02
HLA-BB*08,14

Source: PubMed=15748285
Class I
HLA-AA*02:01:01
HLA-BB*18
HLA-CC*05
Class II
HLA-DPDPB1*04:02
HLA-DQDQB1*02:01
HLA-DRDRB1*03:01:01

Source: PubMed=25960936
Class I
HLA-AA*02:01,02:01
HLA-BB*18:01,18:01
HLA-CC*05:01,05:01
Genome ancestry Source: PubMed=30894373

Origin% genome
African0.69
Native American0
East Asian, North2.21
East Asian, South0
South Asian0
European, North79.45
European, South17.65
Disease Astrocytoma (NCIt: C60781)
Astrocytoma (ORDO: Orphanet_94)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Children:
CVCL_2864 (B2-17)CVCL_E1N9 (HyCyte U251 KO-hOXSR1)CVCL_E1NA (HyCyte U251 KO-hSTK39)
CVCL_2800 (KNS-89)CVCL_0535 (SNB-19)CVCL_B325 (TK-1 [Human astrocytoma])
CVCL_2809 (U-251MG (KO))CVCL_5G63 (U-251MG AgCl1)CVCL_A5HP (U-251MG IDH1 R132C)
CVCL_A5HQ (U-251MG IDH1 R132H)CVCL_A5HR (U-251MG IDH1 WT)CVCL_A5TU (U-251MG PAX6-/- 2.10)
CVCL_A5TV (U-251MG PAX6-/- 2A.28)CVCL_A5TW (U-251MG PAX6-/- 2A.3)CVCL_5G56 (U-251MG sp)
CVCL_C3I5 (U-251MG-GFP)CVCL_J269 (U-251MG-Luc)CVCL_C3I4 (U-251MG-PARK2)
CVCL_2219 (U-373MG ATCC)CVCL_E9DU (U251-hrGFP)CVCL_C1CP (U251-NF-kappaB-GFP-Luc-A1)
CVCL_1G29 (U251-TR3)CVCL_C8XQ (U251MG-Luc)CVCL_E1E1 (Ubigene U-251 MG HMOX1 KO)
CVCL_E1E2 (Ubigene U-251 MG IRGM KO)CVCL_E1E3 (Ubigene U-251 MG NFE2L2 KO)CVCL_E1E4 (Ubigene U-251 MG PTPRF KO)
CVCL_E1E5 (Ubigene U-251 MG SLC7A11 KO)CVCL_E1E6 (Ubigene U-251 MG TANGO6 KO)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling 75Y
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): AddexBio=C0005029/5016; CCRID; CLS=300385; Cosmic-CLP=905983; ECACC=09063001; JCRB=IFO50288; PubMed=19372543; PubMed=22570425; PubMed=24810477; PubMed=27582061

Markers:
AmelogeninX (CCRID; PubMed=24810477_some_subclones)
X,Y (CLS=300385; Cosmic-CLP=905983; ECACC=09063001; JCRB=IFO50288; PubMed=22570425; PubMed=27582061)
CSF1PO11,12 (AddexBio=C0005029/5016; CCRID; CLS=300385; Cosmic-CLP=905983; ECACC=09063001; JCRB=IFO50288; PubMed=22570425; PubMed=27582061)
12,13 (PubMed=19372543)
D2S133822,24
D3S135816,17
D5S81811 (PubMed=24810477)
11,12 (CCRID; CLS=300385; Cosmic-CLP=905983; ECACC=09063001; JCRB=IFO50288; PubMed=22570425; PubMed=27582061)
D7S82010,12
D8S117913,15
D13S31710,11
D16S53912
D18S5113
D19S43313,15
D21S1129 (CCRID; PubMed=22570425; PubMed=24810477)
29,30 (CLS=300385; PubMed=27582061)
FGA21,25
Penta D10,12 (CLS=300385; PubMed=27582061)
12 (PubMed=22570425)
Penta E7 (PubMed=22570425; PubMed=27582061)
7,10 (CLS=300385)
TH019.3
TPOX8
vWA16,18

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Web pages Info; HPA; -; https://www.proteinatlas.org/learn/cellines
Info; MCLP; -; https://tcpaportal.org/mclp/
Info; NCI DTP; NCI-60; https://dtp.cancer.gov/discovery_development/nci-60/cell_list.htm
Info; NCI DTP; NCI-60; https://dtp.cancer.gov/discovery_development/nci-60/u251_snb-19.htm
Info; StRAP; -; https://strap.nci.nih.gov/celline_detail.php?sample_id=57
Info; Thermo Fisher; -; https://www.thermofisher.com/ch/en/home/technical-resources/cell-lines/u/cell-lines-detail-313.html
Provider; Altogen; Xenograft model; https://altogenlabs.com/xenograft-models/prostate-cancer-xenograft/lncap-xenograft-model/
Provider; BRICS; BRICS0099; http://www.brics.ac.cn/cell/template/cell/cell_detail.html?id=3905
Publications

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=608846; DOI=10.1111/j.1601-5223.1978.tb01267.x
Joachim Mark, Bengt Westermark, Jan Ponten, Rune Hugosson;
Banding patterns in human glioma cell lines.
Hereditas 87:243-260(1977)

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=77569; DOI=10.1111/j.1399-0039.1978.tb01259.x
Jons Ake Espmark, Lena Ahlqvist-Roth, Lena Sarne, Anita Persson;
Tissue typing of cells in culture. III. HLA antigens of established human cell lines. Attempts at typing by the mixed hemadsorption technique.
Tissue Antigens 11:279-286(1978)

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=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=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=3335022
Michael C. Alley, Dominic A. Scudiero, Anne Monks, Miriam L. Hursey, Maciej J. Czerwinski, Donald L. Fine, Betty Jane Abbott, Joseph G. Mayo, Robert H. Shoemaker, Michael R. Boyd;
Feasibility of drug screening with panels of human tumor cell lines using a microculture tetrazolium assay.
Cancer Res. 48:589-601(1988)

PubMed=2041050; DOI=10.1093/jnci/83.11.757
Anne Monks, Dominic A. Scudiero, Philip Skehan, Robert H. Shoemaker, Kenneth D. Paull, David T. Vistica, Curtis D. Hose, John Langley, Paul Cronise, Anne Vaigro-Wolff, Marcia Gray-Goodrich ...Show all 14 authors... , Hugh Campbell, Joseph G. Mayo, Michael R. Boyd; Show fewer authors
Feasibility of a high-flux anticancer drug screen using a diverse panel of cultured human tumor cell lines.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 83:757-766(1991)

PubMed=7693337
Hong Li, Marie-France Hamou, Nicolas de Tribolet, Rebana Jaufeerally, Martin Hofmann, Annie-Claire Diserens, Erwin G. Van Meir;
Variant CD44 adhesion molecules are expressed in human brain metastases but not in glioblastomas.
Cancer Res. 53:5345-5349(1993)

PubMed=7763724
Motonobu Satoh, Masao Takeuchi;
Cross-contamination of cell lines as revealed by DNA fingerprinting in the IFO animal cell bank.
Res. Commun. Inst. Ferment. 16:18-23(1993)

PubMed=8104691
Mark A. Pershouse, Elton Stubblefield, Azra Hadi, Ann McNeill Killary, Wai-Kwan Alfred Yung, Peter A. Steck;
Analysis of the functional role of chromosome 10 loss in human glioblastomas.
Cancer Res. 53:5043-5050(1993)

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=8878451; DOI=10.1111/j.1349-7006.1996.tb02118.x; PMCID=PMC5921198
Shu-Jing Zhang, Sumio Endo, Hisashi Koga, Tomio Ichikawa, Xue-Lian Feng, Kiyoshi Onda, Kazuo Washiyama, Toshiro Kumanishi;
A comparative study of glioma cell lines for p16, p15, p53 and p21 gene alterations.
Jpn. J. Cancer Res. 87:900-907(1996)

PubMed=9090379; DOI=10.1038/ng0497-356
Peter A. Steck, Mark A. Pershouse, Samar A. Jasser, Wai-Kwan Alfred Yung, Huai Lin, Azra Hadi Ligon, Lauren A. Langford, Michelle L. Baumgard, Thomas Hattier, Thaylon Davis, Cheryl Frye ...Show all 15 authors... , Rong Hu, Bradley Swedlund, David H.-F. Teng, Sean V. Tavtigian; Show fewer authors
Identification of a candidate tumour suppressor gene, MMAC1, at chromosome 10q23.3 that is mutated in multiple advanced cancers.
Nat. Genet. 15:356-362(1997)

PubMed=9220028; DOI=10.1016/S0303-7207(97)00080-4
Taraneh R. Sharif, Wei Luo, Mohammed Sharif;
Functional expression of bombesin receptor in most adult and pediatric human glioblastoma cell lines; role in mitogenesis and in stimulating the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway.
Mol. Cell. Endocrinol. 130:119-130(1997)

PubMed=9230885; DOI=10.1093/jnci/89.14.1036
Candelaria Gomez-Manzano, Juan Fueyo, Athanassios P. Kyritsis, Timothy J. McDonnell, Peter A. Steck, Victor Alan Levin, Wai-Kwan Alfred Yung;
Characterization of p53 and p21 functional interactions in glioma cells en route to apoptosis.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 89:1036-1044(1997)

PubMed=9331090
Patrick M. O'Connor, Joany Jackman, Insoo Bae, Timothy Gene Myers, Sai-Jun Fan, Masato Mutoh, Dominic A. Scudiero, Anne Monks, Edward A. Sausville, John N. Weinstein, Stephen H. Friend ...Show all 13 authors... , Albert J. Fornace Jr., Kurt W. Kohn; Show fewer authors
Characterization of the p53 tumor suppressor pathway in cell lines of the National Cancer Institute anticancer drug screen and correlations with the growth-inhibitory potency of 123 anticancer agents.
Cancer Res. 57:4285-4300(1997)

PubMed=9614553; DOI=10.1038/sj.gt.3300605
Mitsuhiro Tada, Shirou Sakuma, Richard D. Iggo, Hideyuki Saya, Yutaka Sawamura, Toshiyoshi Fujiwara, Jack Alan Roth;
Monitoring adenoviral p53 transduction efficiency by yeast functional assay.
Gene Ther. 5:339-344(1998)

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)

DOI=10.1007/0-306-46861-1_11
Francis Ali-Osman;
Brain tumors.
(In book chapter) Human cell culture. Vol. 2. Cancer cell lines part 2; Masters, John R.W. & Palsson, Bernhard Orn (eds.); pp.167-184; Kluwer Academic Publishers; New York; USA (1999)

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=10551321; DOI=10.1111/j.1349-7006.1999.tb00838.x; PMCID=PMC5926156
Shu-Jing Zhang, Sumio Endo, Tomio Ichikawa, Jun-ichi Yoshimura, Kiyoshi Onda, Ryuichi Tanaka, Kazuo Washiyama, Toshiro Kumanishi;
Rare-type mutations of MMAC1 tumor suppressor gene in human glioma cell lines and their tumors of origin.
Jpn. J. Cancer Res. 90:934-941(1999)

PubMed=10560660; DOI=10.1097/00005072-199911000-00007
Esther E. Schmidt, Koichi Ichimura, Helena M. Goike, Ahmad Moshref, Lu Liu, Vincent Peter Collins;
Mutational profile of the PTEN gene in primary human astrocytic tumors and cultivated xenografts.
J. Neuropathol. Exp. Neurol. 58:1170-1183(1999)

PubMed=10700174; DOI=10.1038/73432
Douglas T. Ross, Uwe Scherf, Michael Bruce Eisen, Charles M. Perou, Christian Rees, Paul T. Spellman, Vishwanath R. Iyer, Stefanie S. Jeffrey, Matt van de Rijn, Mark C. Waltham, Alexander Pergamenschikov ...Show all 18 authors... , Jeffrey C.F. Lee, Deval Lashkari, Dari Shalon, Timothy Gene Myers, John N. Weinstein, David Botstein, Patrick O'Reilly Brown; Show fewer authors
Systematic variation in gene expression patterns in human cancer cell lines.
Nat. Genet. 24:227-235(2000)

PubMed=14614447; DOI=10.1038/sj.onc.1207198
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Oncogene 22:8233-8245(2003)

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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)

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HLA class I and II genotype of the NCI-60 cell lines.
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p53-defective tumors with a functional apoptosome-mediated pathway: a new therapeutic target.
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Overexpressed Skp2 within 5p amplification detected by array-based comparative genomic hybridization is associated with poor prognosis of glioblastomas.
Cancer Sci. 96:676-683(2005)

PubMed=16391870; DOI=10.3892/or.15.2.463
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GL15 and U251 glioblastoma-derived human cell lines are peculiarly susceptible to induction of mitotic death by very low concentrations of okadaic acid.
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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=17088437; DOI=10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-06-0433; PMCID=PMC2705832
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Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) AddexBio; C0005029/5016
CCTCC; GDC0093
CLS; 300385
ECACC; 09063001
ICLC; HTL99014
JCRB; IFO50288
KCB; KCB 200965YJ
Kerafast; EDK001
NCI-DTP; U-251
RCB; RCB0461 - Discontinued
Ubigene; YC-D015
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0009456
CLDB; cl4583
cancercelllines; CVCL_0021
CCRID; 1101HUM-PUMC000058
CCRID; 3101HUMTCHu58
CCRID; 4201HUM-CCTCC00093
Cell_Model_Passport; SIDM00111
CGH-DB; 155-1
Cosmic-CLP; 905983
DepMap; ACH-000232
LINCS_LDP; LCL-1400
Lonza; 105
Lonza; 1007
SKY/M-FISH/CGH; 2825
TOKU-E; 4005
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0002035
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN10988290
CRISP screens repositories BioGRID_ORCS_Cell_line; 351
Chemistry resources ChEMBL-Cells; CHEMBL3307756
ChEMBL-Targets; CHEMBL615022
GDSC; 905983
PharmacoDB; U251MG_1629_2019
PubChem_Cell_line; CVCL_0021
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54973550
Experimental variables resources EFO; EFO_0006498
Gene expression databases ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-783
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-2770
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-3610
GEO; GSE66597
GEO; GSM2103
GEO; GSM50180
GEO; GSM50244
GEO; GSM101675
GEO; GSM101677
GEO; GSM101678
GEO; GSM101679
GEO; GSM101680
GEO; GSM101685
GEO; GSM743440
GEO; GSM750795
GEO; GSM799328
GEO; GSM799391
GEO; GSM844718
GEO; GSM844719
GEO; GSM847166
GEO; GSM887720
GEO; GSM888814
GEO; GSM1153398
GEO; GSM1178662
GEO; GSM1178663
GEO; GSM1181247
GEO; GSM1181342
GEO; GSM1670555
GEO; GSM2124691
GEO; GSM7701412
GEO; GSM7701413
Metabolomic databases MetaboLights; MTBLS6212
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 687451
Cosmic; 848340
Cosmic; 849850
Cosmic; 850742
Cosmic; 875896
Cosmic; 897440
Cosmic; 905983
Cosmic; 920818
Cosmic; 923899
Cosmic; 970094
Cosmic; 974243
Cosmic; 1044250
Cosmic; 1066235
Cosmic; 1092644
Cosmic; 1171225
Cosmic; 1175823
Cosmic; 1217673
Cosmic; 1312345
Cosmic; 1436038
Cosmic; 1610741
Cosmic; 1998487
Cosmic; 2367502
Cosmic; 2367554
Cosmic; 2516042
Cosmic; 2550363
Cosmic; 2580916
IARC_TP53; 2575
LiGeA; CCLE_040
Progenetix; CVCL_0021
Proteomic databases PRIDE; PXD000589
PRIDE; PXD005940
PRIDE; PXD005942
PRIDE; PXD005946
PRIDE; PXD030304
Sequence databases EGA; EGAS00001000978
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update14-Aug-2025
Version number49