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Cellosaurus WM115 (CVCL_0040)

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Cell line name WM115
Synonyms WM-115; WM 115; WM115F; WM115-mel; WM115mel; WC00079
Accession CVCL_0040
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: WM115 (RRID:CVCL_0040)
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: MD Anderson Cell Lines Project.
Part of: Wistar Institute melanoma cell line collection.
Population: Caucasian.
Microsatellite instability: Stable (MSS) (Sanger).
Omics: Genomics; DNA methylation analysis.
Omics: Genomics; Whole exome sequencing.
Omics: Phenotyping; Drug screening.
Omics: Proteomics; Expression; Large antibody panel staining analysis.
Omics: Proteomics; Expression; Reverse-phase protein array.
Omics: Proteomics; Quantitative.
Omics: Transcriptomics; Microarray.
Omics: Transcriptomics; RNAseq.
Omics: Variations; SNP array analysis.
Caution: The reported STR profile from Wistar of this cell line was changed at one point between February 2016 when we retrieved them and entered them in Cellosaurus and May 2018. The major changes were: CSF1PO: 11,12->12, D18S51: 17->17,21 and D8S1179: 8,13->13,15.
Misspelling: WH115mel; CGH-DB=9323-4.
Derived from site: Metastatic; Right anterior leg, skin; UBERON=UBERON_0001511.
Sequence variations
  • Gene deletion; HGNC; HGNC:1787; CDKN2A; Zygosity=Homozygous (Wistar).
  • Gene deletion; HGNC; HGNC:1788; CDKN2B; Zygosity=Homozygous (Wistar).
  • Gene deletion; HGNC; HGNC:9588; PTEN; Zygosity=Hemizygous (Wistar).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:1097; BRAF; Simple; p.Val600Asp (c.1799_1800delTGinsAT); ClinVar=VCV000375939; Zygosity=Heterozygous (PubMed=15009714; PubMed=15467732; Wistar).
HLA typing Source: PubMed=15592718
Class I
HLA-AA*02:01,29:02
HLA-BB*13:02,44:03:01
HLA-CC*06:02,16:01
Class II
HLA-DPDPB1*02:01:02,02:01:02
HLA-DQDQB1*02:01,02:01
HLA-DRDRB1*07:01,07:01

Source: PubMed=26589293
Class I
HLA-AA*02:01,29:02
HLA-BB*13:02,44:03
HLA-CC*06:02,16:01
Genome ancestry Source: PubMed=30894373

Origin% genome
African0
Native American0.17
East Asian, North0
East Asian, South0
South Asian0.85
European, North67.47
European, South31.51
Disease Melanoma (NCIt: C3224)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Children:
CVCL_C3N6 (WM115-MOCK)CVCL_C3N7 (WM115-RAGE)
Originate from same individual CVCL_L033 ! WM165-1
CVCL_RN55 ! WM165-2
CVCL_6795 ! WM239A
CVCL_RN56 ! WM239B
CVCL_RN57 ! WM266-1
CVCL_RN58 ! WM266-2
CVCL_RN59 ! WM266-3
CVCL_2765 ! WM266-4
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling 55Y
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): ATCC=CRL-1675; Cosmic-CLP=909784; ESTDAB=ESTDAB-066; Wistar

Markers:
AmelogeninX
CSF1PO12
D2S133819
D3S135815,18
D5S81813
D7S8208
D8S117913,15
D13S31712,13
D16S53911,12
D18S5117,21
D19S43313
D21S1129
FGA21,23
TH017,9
TPOX8,11
vWA15,17

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Web pages Info; HPA; -; https://www.proteinatlas.org/learn/cellines
Info; MCLP; -; https://tcpaportal.org/mclp/
Info; Wistar; -; https://www.wistar.org/our-scientists/meenhard-herlyn
Publications

PubMed=3856042; DOI=10.1093/jnci/74.2.283
Meenhard Herlyn, Gloria Brady Balaban-Malenbaum, Jeannette L. Bennicelli, DuPont Guerry 4th, Ruth Halaban, Dorothee Herlyn, David E. Elder, Gerd G. Maul, Zenon Steplewski, Peter Carey Nowell, Wallace H. Clark Jr., Hilary Koprowski;
Primary melanoma cells of the vertical growth phase: similarities to metastatic cells.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 74:283-289(1985)

PubMed=4053039
Meenhard Herlyn, Jan Thurin, Gloria Brady Balaban-Malenbaum, Jeannette L. Bennicelli, Dorothee Herlyn, David E. Elder, Edward Bondi, DuPont Guerry 4th, Peter Carey Nowell, Wallace H. Clark Jr., Hilary Koprowski;
Characteristics of cultured human melanocytes isolated from different stages of tumor progression.
Cancer Res. 45:5670-5676(1985)

PubMed=3020539; DOI=10.1073/pnas.83.19.7197; PMCID=PMC386682
Bengt Westermark, Anders Johnsson, Ylva Paulsson, Christer Betsholtz, Carl-Henrik Heldin, Meenhard Herlyn, Ulrich Rodeck, Hilary Koprowski;
Human melanoma cell lines of primary and metastatic origin express the genes encoding the chains of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and produce a PDGF-like growth factor.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 83:7197-7200(1986)

PubMed=2253310; DOI=10.1007/BF00046337
Meenhard Herlyn;
Human melanoma: development and progression.
Cancer Metastasis Rev. 9:101-112(1990)

PubMed=11121133; DOI=10.1046/j.1523-1747.2000.00199.x
Pedro M. Lacal, Cristina M. Failla, Elena Pagani, Teresa Odorisio, Cataldo Schietroma, Sabrina Falcinelli, Giovanna Zambruno, Stefania D'Atri;
Human melanoma cells secrete and respond to placenta growth factor and vascular endothelial growth factor.
J. Invest. Dermatol. 115:1000-1007(2000)

PubMed=15009714; DOI=10.1046/j.0022-202X.2004.22243.x; PMCID=PMC2586668
Hensin Tsao, Vikas Goel, Heng Wu, Guang Yang, Frank G. Haluska;
Genetic interaction between NRAS and BRAF mutations and PTEN/MMAC1 inactivation in melanoma.
J. Invest. Dermatol. 122:337-341(2004)

PubMed=15467732; DOI=10.1038/sj.onc.1208152
Hideaki Tanami, Issei Imoto, Akira Hirasawa, Yasuhiro Yuki, Itaru Sonoda, Jun Inoue, Kohichiroh Yasui, Akiko Misawa-Furihata, Yutaka Kawakami, Johji Inazawa;
Involvement of overexpressed wild-type BRAF in the growth of malignant melanoma cell lines.
Oncogene 23:8796-8804(2004)

PubMed=15592718; DOI=10.1007/s00262-004-0561-5; PMCID=PMC11032966
Teresa Rodriguez, Rosa Mendez, Chrissy H. Roberts, Francisco Ruiz-Cabello Osuna, I. Anthony Dodi, Miguel Angel Lopez-Nevot, Laura Paco, Isabel Maleno, Steven G.E. Marsh, Graham Pawelec, Federico Garrido;
High frequency of homozygosity of the HLA region in melanoma cell lines reveals a pattern compatible with extensive loss of heterozygosity.
Cancer Immunol. Immunother. 54:141-148(2005)

PubMed=16827748; DOI=10.1111/j.1600-0749.2006.00322.x
Keith S. Hoek, Natalie C. Schlegel, Patricia Brafford, Antje Sucker, Selma Ugurel, Rajiv Kumar, Barbara L. Weber, Katherine L. Nathanson, Donald J. Phillips, Meenhard Herlyn, Dirk Schadendorf, Reinhard Dummer;
Metastatic potential of melanomas defined by specific gene expression profiles with no BRAF signature.
Pigment Cell Res. 19:290-302(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=18632627; DOI=10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-0235; PMCID=PMC2615688
Keiran S.M. Smalley, Rooha Contractor, Thiennga K. Nguyen, Min Xiao, Robin Edwards, Viswanathan Muthusamy, Alastair J. King, Keith Thomas Flaherty, Marcus W. Bosenberg, Meenhard Herlyn, Katherine L. Nathanson;
Identification of a novel subgroup of melanomas with KIT/cyclin-dependent kinase-4 overexpression.
Cancer Res. 68:5743-5752(2008)

PubMed=20164919; DOI=10.1038/nature08768; PMCID=PMC3145113
Graham Robert Bignell, Christopher D. Greenman, Helen R. Davies, Adam P. Butler, Sarah Edkins, Jenny M. Andrews, Gemma Buck, Lina Chen, David Beare, Calli Latimer, Sara Widaa ...Show all 22 authors... , Jonathan Hinton, Ciara Fahey, Bei-Yuan Fu, Sajani Swamy, Gillian L. Dalgliesh, Bin Tean Teh, Panos Deloukas, Feng-Tang Yang, Peter J. Campbell, P. Andrew Futreal, Michael Rudolf Stratton; Show fewer authors
Signatures of mutation and selection in the cancer genome.
Nature 463:893-898(2010)

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=21424129; DOI=10.3892/or.2011.1220
Antonella Manca, Maria Cristina Sini, Francesco Izzo, Paolo Antonio Ascierto, Fabiana Tatangelo, Gerardo Botti, Giusy Gentilcore, Marilena Capone, Nicola Mozzillo, Carla Rozzo, Antonio Cossu ...Show all 13 authors... , Francesco Tanda, Giuseppe Palmieri; Show fewer authors
Induction of arginosuccinate synthetase (ASS) expression affects the antiproliferative activity of arginine deiminase (ADI) in melanoma cells.
Oncol. Rep. 25:1495-1502(2011)

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=25485619; DOI=10.1038/nbt.3080
Christiaan Klijn, Steffen Durinck, Eric W. Stawiski, Peter M. Haverty, Zhao-Shi Jiang, Han-Bin Liu, Jeremiah Degenhardt, Oleg Mayba, Florian Gnad, Jin-Feng Liu, Gregoire Pau ...Show all 30 authors... , Jens Reeder, Yi Cao, Kiran Mukhyala, Suresh K. Selvaraj, Ma-Mie Yu, Gregory J. Zynda, Matthew J. Brauer, Thomas D. Wu, Robert Clifford Gentleman, Gerard Manning, Robert L. Yauch, Richard Bourgon, David Stokoe, Zora Modrusan, Richard M. Neve, Frederic J. de Sauvage, Jeffrey Settleman, Somasekar Seshagiri, Ze-Min Zhang; Show fewer authors
A comprehensive transcriptional portrait of human cancer cell lines.
Nat. Biotechnol. 33:306-312(2015)

PubMed=26589293; DOI=10.1186/s13073-015-0240-5; PMCID=PMC4653878
Jelle Scholtalbers, Sebastian Boegel, Thomas Bukur, Marius Byl, Sebastian Goerges, Patrick Sorn, Martin Loewer, Ugur Sahin, John C. Castle;
TCLP: an online cancer cell line catalogue integrating HLA type, predicted neo-epitopes, virus and gene expression.
Genome Med. 7:118.1-118.7(2015)

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A landscape of pharmacogenomic interactions in cancer.
Cell 166:740-754(2016)

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Cancer Cell 31:225-239(2017)

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Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) ATCC; CRL-1675 - Discontinued
Coriell; WC00079 - Discontinued
ECACC; 91061232 - Discontinued
IZSLER; BS TCL 74
Rockland; WM115-01-0001
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0009613
CLDB; cl4727
CLDB; cl4728
cancercelllines; CVCL_0040
Cell_Model_Passport; SIDM01000
CGH-DB; 9323-4
Cosmic-CLP; 909784
DepMap; ACH-000304
ESTDAB; ESTDAB-066
IGRhCellID; WM115
LINCS_HMS; 50567
LINCS_LDP; LCL-1260
Lonza; 584
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0003075
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN10987773
CRISP screens repositories BioGRID_ORCS_Cell_line; 345
Chemistry resources ChEMBL-Cells; CHEMBL3308813
ChEMBL-Targets; CHEMBL1075611
GDSC; 909784
PharmacoDB; WM115_1662_2019
PubChem_Cell_line; CVCL_0040
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54994157
Experimental variables resources EFO; EFO_0002390
Gene expression databases ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-38
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-783
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-2706
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-2770
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-3610
GEO; GSM109022
GEO; GSM827472
GEO; GSM887735
GEO; GSM888830
GEO; GSM1670576
GEO; GSM7701424
GEO; GSM7701435
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 886835
Cosmic; 888868
Cosmic; 897480
Cosmic; 905236
Cosmic; 909784
Cosmic; 932717
Cosmic; 972277
Cosmic; 1155268
Cosmic; 1155547
Cosmic; 1238102
Cosmic; 1238104
IARC_TP53; 21271
IARC_TP53; 24992
LiGeA; CCLE_370
Progenetix; CVCL_0040
Proteomic databases PRIDE; PXD030304
Sequence databases EGA; EGAS00001000610
EGA; EGAS00001000978
EGA; EGAS00001002554
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update14-Aug-2025
Version number49