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Cellosaurus HaCaT (CVCL_0038)

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Cell line name HaCaT
Synonyms HaCAT; HACAT; Hacat
Accession CVCL_0038
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: HaCaT (RRID:CVCL_0038)
Comments Part of: Human Protein Atlas, Cell Atlas panel.
Population: Caucasian.
Virology: Susceptible to infection by Zika virus (ZIKV) (PubMed=29468137).
Doubling time: 28 hours (PubMed=32938951).
Omics: Metabolomics.
Omics: Proteomics.
Omics: Proteomics; Expression; Large antibody panel staining analysis.
Omics: Transcriptomics; Microarray.
Omics: Transcriptomics; RNAseq.
Caution: Although HaCaT is distributed by a number of sources, the only official DKFZ-approved supplier is CLS.
Derived from site: In situ; Back, skin, epidermis; UBERON=UBERON_0001068+UBERON_0001003.
Cell type: Keratinocyte; CL=CL_0000312.
Sequence variations
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:11998; TP53; Simple; p.His179Tyr (c.535C>T); ClinVar=VCV000127815; Zygosity=Heterozygous (PubMed=8504475).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:11998; TP53; Simple; p.Arg282Trp (c.843_844CC>TT); Zygosity=Heterozygous (PubMed=8504475).
HLA typing Source: CLS=300493
Class I
HLA-AA*31:01:02
HLA-BB*40:01:02,51:01:01
HLA-CC*03:04:01,15:02:01
Class II
HLA-DPDPB1*03:01:01,04:01:01
HLA-DQDQA1*01:02:01,03:03:01
DQB1*03:01:01,06:02:01
HLA-DRDRB1*04:01:01,15:01:01
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Children:
CVCL_XK16 (HaCaT A-5)CVCL_HD65 (HaCaT BHLHE40 (-/-))CVCL_FA29 (HaCaT HSP70B'-GFP reporter)
CVCL_3868 (HaCaT II-4)CVCL_S024 (HaCaT SimpleCell O-GalNAc)CVCL_QX09 (HaCaT siYAP)
CVCL_QX10 (HaCaT YAP-5SA)CVCL_B0AY (HaCaT-16E5)CVCL_B0AZ (HaCaT-16E6)
CVCL_B0B0 (HaCaT-16E6E7)CVCL_B0B1 (HaCaT-16E7)CVCL_B0B2 (HaCaT-18E5)
CVCL_B0B3 (HaCaT-18E6)CVCL_B0B4 (HaCaT-18E7)CVCL_B0B5 (HaCaT-62E5)
CVCL_B0B6 (HaCaT-62E6)CVCL_B0B7 (HaCaT-62E7)CVCL_B0B8 (HaCaT-84E5)
CVCL_B0B9 (HaCaT-84E6)CVCL_B0BA (HaCaT-84E7)CVCL_B6YN (HaCaT-hGSTP1 ARE-SV40p-Luc2)
CVCL_B0BB (HaCaT-pLVX)CVCL_ZW69 (HaCaT-shNeg)CVCL_ZW70 (HaCaT-shNrf2#1)
CVCL_ZW71 (HaCaT-shNrf2#2)CVCL_ZW72 (HaCaT-shNrf2#3)CVCL_RL61 (HaCaT-TRS4)
CVCL_4Z60 (HaCaT/SM)CVCL_XK18 (HaCaT40degree)CVCL_E1JZ (HyCyte HaCaT KO-hPI3)
CVCL_E3H8 (HyCyte HaCaT-Luc)CVCL_BW57 (NOK-SI)CVCL_A9W9 (nr-HaCat)
CVCL_D9WZ (Ubigene HaCaT GJB2 KO)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling 62Y
Category Spontaneously immortalized cell line
STR profile Source(s): CCRID; CLS=300493; DSMZ=ACC-771; PubMed=11416159; PubMed=21868764; PubMed=35072517; Technion Genomics Center

Markers:
AmelogeninX
CSF1PO9,11
D1S165611,12
D2S44111
D2S133817,25
D3S135816
D5S81812
D6S104312,19
D7S8209,11
D8S117914
D10S124814,15
D12S39118,23
D13S31710,12
D16S5399,12
D18S5112
D19S43313,14
D21S1128 (DSMZ=ACC-771)
28,30.2 (CLS=300493; PubMed=11416159; PubMed=35072517; Technion Genomics Center)
30.2 (CCRID)
D22S104515,16
FGA24 (CCRID; DSMZ=ACC-771; PubMed=11416159; PubMed=35072517; Technion Genomics Center)
24,27.2 (CLS=300493)
Penta D11,13
Penta E7,12
SE3315,18.2
TH019.3
TPOX11,12
vWA16,17

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Web pages Info; HPA; -; https://www.proteinatlas.org/learn/cellines
Info; Thermo Fisher; -; https://www.thermofisher.com/ch/en/home/technical-resources/cell-lines/h/cell-lines-detail-347.html
Info; Wikipedia; -; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HaCaT
Publications

PubMed=2450098; DOI=10.1083/jcb.106.3.761; PMCID=PMC2115116
Petra Boukamp, Rule T. Dzarlieva-Petrusevska, Dirk Breitkreutz, Jurgen Hornung, Alex F. Markham, Norbert E. Fusenig;
Normal keratinization in a spontaneously immortalized aneuploid human keratinocyte cell line.
J. Cell Biol. 106:761-771(1988)

PubMed=8162337; DOI=10.1111/j.1600-0625.1993.tb00030.x
Nanna Schurer, Angela Kohne, Viola Schliep, Kerstin Barlag, Gunter Goerz;
Lipid composition and synthesis of HaCaT cells, an immortalized human keratinocyte line, in comparison with normal human adult keratinocytes.
Exp. Dermatol. 2:179-185(1993)

PubMed=8504475; DOI=10.1093/carcin/14.5.833
Teresa A. Lehman, Ramakrishna V. Modali, Petra Boukamp, Julie Stanek, William P. Bennett, Judith A. Welsh, Robert A. Metcalf, Martha Ruskin Stampfer, Norbert E. Fusenig, Eileen M. Rogan, Curtis Craig Harris;
p53 mutations in human immortalized epithelial cell lines.
Carcinogenesis 14:833-839(1993)

PubMed=9290701; DOI=10.1002/(SICI)1098-2744(199708)19:4<243::AID-MC5>3.0.CO;2-D
Li-Qun Jia, Motonobu Osada, Chikashi Ishioka, Makio Gamo, Shuntaro Ikawa, Takao Suzuki, Hideki Shimodaira, Tomohito Niitani, Toshio Kudo, Mitoshi Akiyama, Narimiti Kimura, Mitsuyoshi Matsuo, Hiroshi Mizusawa ...Show all 18 authors... , Noriho Tanaka, Hideki Koyama, Masayoshi Namba, Ryunosuke Kanamaru, Toshio Kuroki; Show fewer authors
Screening the p53 status of human cell lines using a yeast functional assay.
Mol. Carcinog. 19:243-253(1997)

PubMed=9406811; DOI=10.1111/1523-1747.ep12340708
Ute Henseleit, Juan Zhang, Reinhard Wanner, Ingo Haase, Gerhard Kolde, Thomas Rosenbach;
Role of p53 in UVB-induced apoptosis in human HaCaT keratinocytes.
J. Invest. Dermatol. 109:722-727(1997)

PubMed=10350023; DOI=10.1023/A:1011945212831
Ralf Altenburger, Thomas Kissel;
The human keratinocyte cell line HaCaT: an in vitro cell culture model for keratinocyte testosterone metabolism.
Pharm. Res. 16:766-771(1999)

PubMed=10523843; DOI=10.1038/sj.onc.1202934
Petra Boukamp, Susanne Popp, Kerstin Bleuel, E. Tomakidi, Alexander Burkle, Norbert E. Fusenig;
Tumorigenic conversion of immortal human skin keratinocytes (HaCaT) by elevated temperature.
Oncogene 18:5638-5645(1999)

PubMed=11416159; DOI=10.1073/pnas.121616198; PMCID=PMC35459
John R.W. Masters, Jim A. Thomson, Bernadette Daly-Burns, Yvonne A. Reid, Wilhelm Gerhard Dirks, Phil Packer, Lorraine H. Toji, Tadao Ohno, Hideyuki Tanabe, Colin Francis Arlett, Lloyd R. Kelland, Maureen Harrison, Arvind K. Virmani ...Show all 16 authors... , Timothy H. Ward, Karen L. Ayres, Paul G. Debenham; Show fewer authors
Short tandem repeat profiling provides an international reference standard for human cell lines.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98:8012-8017(2001)

PubMed=11583982; DOI=10.1016/S0002-9440(10)62541-2; PMCID=PMC1850484
Margareta M. Mueller, Wolfgang Peter, Marion Mappes, Andrea Huelsen, Heinrich Steinbauer, Petra Boukamp, Michael Anthony Vaccariello, Jonathan A. Garlick, Norbert E. Fusenig;
Tumor progression of skin carcinoma cells in vivo promoted by clonal selection, mutagenesis, and autocrine growth regulation by granulocyte colony-stimulating factor and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor.
Am. J. Pathol. 159:1567-1579(2001)

PubMed=15389883; DOI=10.1002/jcb.20212
Gilles Lemaitre, Jerome Lamartine, Amandine Pitaval, Pierre Vaigot, Jerome Garin, Stephan Bouet, Cyrille Petat, Pascal Soularue, Xavier Gidrol, Michele T. Martin, Gilles Waksman;
Expression profiling of genes and proteins in HaCaT keratinocytes: proliferating versus differentiated state.
J. Cell. Biochem. 93:1048-1062(2004)

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=20097197; DOI=10.1016/j.yexcr.2010.01.020
Kati Rasanen, Antti Vaheri;
Proliferation and motility of HaCaT keratinocyte derivatives is enhanced by fibroblast nemosis.
Exp. Cell Res. 316:1739-1747(2010)

PubMed=20100199; DOI=10.1111/j.1600-0625.2009.01026.x; PMCID=PMC2891305
Florina Olaru, Liselotte E. Jensen;
Chemokine expression by human keratinocyte cell lines after activation of Toll-like receptors.
Exp. Dermatol. 19:e314-e316(2010)

PubMed=21185708; DOI=10.1016/j.jnutbio.2010.08.004
Simona Serini, Valentina Donato, Elisabetta Piccioni, Sonia Trombino, Giovanni Monego, Amelia Toesca, Idanna Innocenti, Mauro Missori, Marco De Spirito, Leonardo Celleno, Elena Fasano, Franco Oreste Ranelletti, Gabriella Calviello; Show fewer authors ...Show all 13 authors...
Docosahexaenoic acid reverts resistance to UV-induced apoptosis in human keratinocytes: involvement of COX-2 and HuR.
J. Nutr. Biochem. 22:874-885(2011)

PubMed=21269460; DOI=10.1186/1752-0509-5-17; PMCID=PMC3039570
Thomas R. Burkard, Melanie Planyavsky, Ines Kaupe, Florian P. Breitwieser, Tilmann Burckstummer, Keiryn L. Bennett, Giulio Superti-Furga, Jacques Colinge;
Initial characterization of the human central proteome.
BMC Syst. Biol. 5:17.1-17.13(2011)

PubMed=21868764; DOI=10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-11-0690; PMCID=PMC3229662
Mei Zhao, Daisuke Sano, Curtis R. Pickering, Samar A. Jasser, Ying C. Henderson, Gary L. Clayman, Erich M. Sturgis, Thomas J. Ow, Reuben Lotan, Thomas E. Carey, Peter G. Sacks, Jennifer Rubin Grandis, David Sidransky ...Show all 15 authors... , Nils-Erik Heldin, Jeffrey N. Myers; Show fewer authors
Assembly and initial characterization of a panel of 85 genomically validated cell lines from diverse head and neck tumor sites.
Clin. Cancer Res. 17:7248-7264(2011)

PubMed=24155234; DOI=10.1007/7651_2013_42
Van G. Wilson;
Growth and differentiation of HaCaT keratinocytes.
Methods Mol. Biol. 1195:33-41(2014)

PubMed=26989177; DOI=10.1242/dev.133728; PMCID=PMC4874484
Ahmed Elbediwy, Zoe I. Vincent-Mistiaen, Bradley Spencer-Dene, Richard K. Stone, Stefan Boeing, Stefanie Kristin Wculek, Julia Cordero, Ee H. Tan, Rachel Ridgway, Valerie G. Brunton, Erik Sahai, Holger Gerhardt, Axel Behrens ...Show all 16 authors... , Ilaria Malanchi, Owen James Sansom, Barry J. Thompson; Show fewer authors
Integrin signalling regulates YAP and TAZ to control skin homeostasis.
Development 143:1674-1687(2016)

PubMed=29468137; DOI=10.5501/wjv.v7.i1.10; PMCID=PMC5807893
Kiyoshi Himmelsbach, Eberhard Hildt;
Identification of various cell culture models for the study of Zika virus.
World J. Virol. 7:10-20(2018)

PubMed=29660373; DOI=10.1016/j.bbagen.2018.04.012
Zahia Touat-Hamici, Anne-Laure Bulteau, Juliusz Bianga, Helene Jean-Jacques, Joanna Szpunar, Ryszard Lobinski, Laurent Chavatte;
Selenium-regulated hierarchy of human selenoproteome in cancerous and immortalized cells lines.
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1862:2493-2505(2018)

PubMed=31629070; DOI=10.1016/j.tiv.2019.104666
Artur C.G. da Silva, Adrienny Rodrigues Chialchia, Elisandra G. de Castro, Marlos R.L. e Silva, Diego Antonio Costa Arantes, Aline Carvalho Batista, Gregory Thomas Kitten, Marize Campos Valadares;
A new corneal epithelial biomimetic 3D model for in vitro eye toxicity assessment: development, characterization and applicability.
Toxicol. In Vitro 62:104666.1-104666.7(2020)

PubMed=32938951; DOI=10.1038/s41598-020-71315-0; PMCID=PMC7494900
Elizabeth Pavez Lorie, Nicola Stricker, Beata Patrycja Plitta-Michalak, I-Peng Chen, Beate Volkmer, Rudiger Greinert, Anna Jauch, Petra Boukamp, Alexander Rapp;
Characterisation of the novel spontaneously immortalized and invasively growing human skin keratinocyte line HaSKpw.
Sci. Rep. 10:15196.1-15196.20(2020)

PubMed=33718544; DOI=10.1016/j.dib.2021.106871; PMCID=PMC7921465
Alexander L. Rusanov, Daniil D. Romashin, Victor G. Zgoda, Tatyana V. Butkova, Nataliya G. Luzgina;
Protein dataset of immortalized keratinocyte HaCaT cells and normal human keratinocytes.
Data Brief 35:106871.1-106871.6(2021)

PubMed=35072517; DOI=10.1289/EHP9676; PMCID=PMC8785870
Ana Paula Ferragut Cardoso, Mayukh Banerjee, Laila Al-Eryani, Mohammed Sayed, Daniel W. Wilkey, Michael L. Merchant, Juw W. Park, J. Christopher States;
Temporal modulation of differential alternative splicing in HaCaT human keratinocyte cell line chronically exposed to arsenic for up to 28 wk.
Environ. Health Perspect. 130:17011.1-17011.16(2022)

PubMed=35647242; DOI=10.1016/j.dib.2022.108274; PMCID=PMC9130082
Daniil D. Romashin, Alexander L. Rusanov, Peter M. Kozhin, Maxim Nikolaevich Karagyaur, Olga V. Tikhonova, Victor G. Zgoda, Nataliya G. Luzgina;
Impact of p53 knockdown on protein dataset of HaCaT cells.
Data Brief 42:108274.1-108274.8(2022)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) AddexBio; T0020001/117
BCRJ; 0341 - Discontinued
CCTCC; GDC0106
CLS; 300493
DSMZ; ACC-771 - Discontinued
ICLC; HL14001 - Discontinued
IZSLER; BS CL 168
KCB; KCB 200442YJ
Ubigene; YC-A018
Cell line databases/resources CLDB; cl7229
CCRID; 1101HUM-PUMC000373
CCRID; 4201HUM-CCTCC00106
DSMZCellDive; ACC-771
Lonza; 56
TOKU-E; 3890
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0000552
Chemistry resources ChEMBL-Cells; CHEMBL3308509
ChEMBL-Targets; CHEMBL614392
PubChem_Cell_line; CVCL_0038
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q5636366
Experimental variables resources EFO; EFO_0002056
Gene expression databases GEO; GSE57080
GEO; GSM913344
GEO; GSM913345
GEO; GSM960278
GEO; GSM960279
GEO; GSM960280
GEO; GSM960286
GEO; GSM960287
GEO; GSM960288
GEO; GSM960294
GEO; GSM960295
GEO; GSM960296
GEO; GSM1375594
GEO; GSM1375595
GEO; GSM1375596
GEO; GSM1375597
GEO; GSM1375598
GEO; GSM1375599
GEO; GSM1375600
GEO; GSM1375601
GEO; GSM1375602
GEO; GSM1375603
GEO; GSM1375604
GEO; GSM1375605
GEO; GSM1861816
GEO; GSM1861817
GEO; GSM1861820
GEO; GSM1861821
GEO; GSM2112559
GEO; GSM2112563
GEO; GSM2495796
GEO; GSM2495797
GEO; GSM2495798
GEO; GSM7701420
GEO; GSM7701421
Medical resources MeSH; D000084282
Metabolomic databases MetaboLights; MTBLS127
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 1530737
IARC_TP53; 1820
Proteomic databases PRIDE; PXD000496
PRIDE; PXD000670
PRIDE; PXD002460
PRIDE; PXD007789
PRIDE; PXD013113
PRIDE; PXD017536
PRIDE; PXD030700
PRIDE; PXD033538
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update14-Aug-2025
Version number45