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Cellosaurus SK-MEL-1 (CVCL_0068)

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Cell line name SK-MEL-1
Synonyms SK-Mel-1; SK Mel 1; SK-Mel 1; SK-Mel1; SKMEL-1; SkMEL-1; SKMEL1; SK 1
Accession CVCL_0068
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: SK-MEL-1 (RRID:CVCL_0068)
Comments Part of: Cancer Dependency Map project (DepMap) (includes Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia - CCLE).
Part of: COSMIC cell lines project.
Part of: MD Anderson Cell Lines Project.
From: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; New York; USA.
Registration: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Office of Technology Development; SK2004-052.
Population: Caucasian.
Doubling time: ~100 hours (DSMZ=ACC-303).
Microsatellite instability: Stable (MSS) (Sanger).
Omics: Genomics; DNA methylation analysis.
Omics: Genomics; Whole exome sequencing.
Omics: Phenotyping; Drug screening.
Omics: Proteomics.
Omics: Proteomics; Expression; Reverse-phase protein array.
Omics: Proteomics; PTM; Phosphorylation.
Omics: Proteomics; Quantitative.
Omics: Transcriptomics; Microarray.
Omics: Transcriptomics; RNAseq.
Omics: Variations; SNP array analysis.
Derived from site: Metastatic; Thoracic lymph duct; UBERON=UBERON_0007644.
Sequence variations
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:1097; BRAF; Simple; p.Val600Glu (c.1799T>A); ClinVar=VCV000013961; Zygosity=Heterozygous (PubMed=21725359; PubMed=24576830; Cosmic-CLP=909723; DepMap=ACH-000465).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:2514; CTNNB1; Simple; p.Ser33Cys (c.98C>G); ClinVar=VCV000376231; Zygosity=Heterozygous (ATCC=HTB-67; Cosmic-CLP=909723; DepMap=ACH-000465).
HLA typing Source: PubMed=26589293
Class I
HLA-AA*26:01,26:01
HLA-BB*38:01,67:02
HLA-CC*04:01,12:03
Class II
HLA-DQDQA1*03:02,03:02
DQB1*06:01,06:01
HLA-DRDRB1*14:76,14:76
Genome ancestry Source: PubMed=30894373

Origin% genome
African1.29
Native American0
East Asian, North4.27
East Asian, South0
South Asian9.23
European, North23.14
European, South62.08
Disease Melanoma (NCIt: C3224)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Children:
CVCL_E3IM (HyCyte SK-MEL-1-Luc)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling 29Y
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): AddexBio=C0020006/4979; ATCC=HTB-67; CCRID=1101HUM-PUMC000052; CLS=300424; Cosmic-CLP=909723; DSMZ=ACC-303; KCLB=30067; PubMed=25877200

Markers:
AmelogeninX,Y
CSF1PO12,13
D2S133819,23
D3S135814,16
D5S81812,13
D7S82012
D8S117913,16 (ATCC=HTB-67; CLS=300424; DSMZ=ACC-303; PubMed=25877200)
16 (CCRID=1101HUM-PUMC000052)
D13S31711
D16S53911,12
D18S5113,16
D19S43315 (DSMZ=ACC-303)
15,16.2 (ATCC=HTB-67; CCRID=1101HUM-PUMC000052)
D21S1129,32.2
FGA17,20 (DSMZ=ACC-303)
18,20 (ATCC=HTB-67; CCRID=1101HUM-PUMC000052; CLS=300424; PubMed=25877200)
Penta D11,13
Penta E7,21
TH016
TPOX11
vWA16,17

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Web pages Info; MCLP; -; https://tcpaportal.org/mclp/
Provider; MSKCC; -; https://www.mskcc.org/research-advantage/support/technology/tangible-material/human-melanoma-cell-line-sk-mel-1
Publications

PubMed=4879578; DOI=10.1093/jnci/41.4.827
Herbert Friedrich Oettgen, Tadao Aoki, Lloyd John Old, Edward Arthur Boyse, Etienne de Harven, Gretchen M. Mills;
Suspension culture of a pigment-producing cell line derived from a human malignant melanoma.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 41:827-843(1968)

PubMed=327080; DOI=10.1093/jnci/59.1.221
Jorgen Fogh, Jens M. Fogh, Thomas Orfeo;
One hundred and twenty-seven cultured human tumor cell lines producing tumors in nude mice.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 59:221-226(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=6895502; DOI=10.1002/eji.1830111015
Judith P. Johnson, Maria Demmer-Dieckmann, Tommaso Meo, Martin R. Hadam, Gert Riethmuller;
Surface antigens of human melanoma cells defined by monoclonal antibodies. I. Biochemical characterization of two antigens found on cell lines and fresh tumors of diverse tissue origin.
Eur. J. Immunol. 11:825-831(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=3518877; DOI=10.3109/07357908609038260
Jorgen Fogh;
Human tumor lines for cancer research.
Cancer Invest. 4:157-184(1986)

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=8755562; DOI=10.1073/pnas.93.15.7832; PMCID=PMC38834
Da-Cai Liu, Eric Pearlman, Eugenia Diaconu, Kun Guo, Hiroshi Mori, Tariq Haqqi, Sanford David Markowitz, James K.V. Willson, Man-Sun Sy;
Expression of hyaluronidase by tumor cells induces angiogenesis in vivo.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93:7832-7837(1996)

PubMed=11668190; DOI=10.1177/002215540104901105
Hilmar Quentmeier, Mary Osborn, Julia Reinhardt, Margarete Zaborski, Hans Gunther Drexler;
Immunocytochemical analysis of cell lines derived from solid tumors.
J. Histochem. Cytochem. 49:1369-1378(2001)

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=21725359; DOI=10.1038/onc.2011.250; PMCID=PMC3267014
Feng Xing, Yogindra Persaud, Christine A. Pratilas, Barry Stephen Taylor, Manickam Janakiraman, Qing-Bai She, Humilidad F. Gallardo, C. Liu, Taha Merghoub, Blake E. Hefter, Igor Dolgalev ...Show all 19 authors... , Agnes J. Viale, Adriana Heguy, Elisa de Stanchina, David Cobrinik, Gideon Bollag, Jedd D. Wolchok, Alan N. Houghton, David B. Solit; Show fewer authors
Concurrent loss of the PTEN and RB1 tumor suppressors attenuates RAF dependence in melanomas harboring (V600E)BRAF.
Oncogene 31:446-457(2012)

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=24576830; DOI=10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-13-2625; PMCID=PMC4005042
Moriah Heller Nissan, Christine A. Pratilas, Alexis M. Jones, Ricardo Ramirez, Helen Won, Cai-Lian Liu, Shakuntala Tiwari, Li Kong, Aphrothiti J. Hanrahan, Zhan Yao, Taha Merghoub ...Show all 19 authors... , Antoni Ribas, Paul B. Chapman, Rona D. Yaeger, Barry Stephen Taylor, Nikolaus Schultz, Michael F. Berger, Neal Rosen, David B. Solit; Show fewer authors
Loss of NF1 in cutaneous melanoma is associated with RAS activation and MEK dependence.
Cancer Res. 74:2340-2350(2014)

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=25877200; DOI=10.1038/nature14397
Ma-Mie Yu, Suresh K. Selvaraj, May M.Y. Liang-Chu, Sahar Aghajani, Matthew Busse, Jean Yuan, Genee Lee, Franklin V. Peale, Christiaan Klijn, Richard Bourgon, Joshua S. Kaminker, Richard M. Neve;
A resource for cell line authentication, annotation and quality control.
Nature 520:307-311(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)

PubMed=27397505; DOI=10.1016/j.cell.2016.06.017; PMCID=PMC4967469
Francesco Iorio, Theo A. Knijnenburg, Daniel J. Vis, Graham Robert Bignell, Michael Patrick Menden, Michael Schubert, Nanne Aben, Emanuel Goncalves, Syd Barthorpe, Howard Lightfoot, Thomas Cokelaer ...Show all 39 authors... , Patricia Greninger, Ewald van Dyk, Han Chang, Heshani de Silva, Holger Heyn, Xian-Ming Deng, Regina K. Egan, Qing-Song Liu, Tatiana Mironenko, Xeni Mitropoulos, Laura Richardson, Jin-Hua Wang, Ting-Hu Zhang, Sebastian Moran, Sergi Sayols, Maryam Soleimani, David Tamborero, Nuria Lopez-Bigas, Petra Ross-Macdonald, Manel Esteller, Nathanael S. Gray, Daniel Arie Haber, Michael Rudolf Stratton, Cyril Henri Benes, Lodewyk F.A. Wessels, Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Ultan McDermott, Mathew J. Garnett; Show fewer authors
A landscape of pharmacogenomic interactions in cancer.
Cell 166:740-754(2016)

PubMed=28196595; DOI=10.1016/j.ccell.2017.01.005; PMCID=PMC5501076
Jun Li, Wei Zhao, Rehan Akbani, Wen-Bin Liu, Zhen-Lin Ju, Shi-Yun Ling, Christopher P. Vellano, Paul Roebuck, Qing-Hua Yu, A. Karina Eterovic, Lauren Averett Byers ...Show all 25 authors... , Michael A. Davies, Wan-Leng Deng, Y.N. Vashisht Gopal, Guo Chen, Erika Maria von Euw, Dennis Joseph Slamon, Dylan Conklin, John Victor Heymach, Adi F. Gazdar, John D. Minna, Jeffrey N. Myers, Yi-Ling Lu, Gordon B. Mills, Han Liang; Show fewer authors
Characterization of human cancer cell lines by reverse-phase protein arrays.
Cancer Cell 31:225-239(2017)

PubMed=30629668; DOI=10.1371/journal.pone.0210404; PMCID=PMC6328144
Cord C. Uphoff, Claudia Pommerenke, Sabine A. Denkmann, Hans Gunther Drexler;
Screening human cell lines for viral infections applying RNA-Seq data analysis.
PLoS ONE 14:e0210404.1-e0210404.22(2019)

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)

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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.
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Pan-cancer proteomic map of 949 human cell lines.
Cancer Cell 40:835-849.e8(2022)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) AddexBio; C0020006/4979
ATCC; HTB-67
CancerTools; 161914
CLS; 300424
DSMZ; ACC-303
KCB; KCB 200724YJ
KCLB; 30067
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0009040
CLO; CLO_0037292
cancercelllines; CVCL_0068
CCRID; 1101HUM-PUMC000052
Cell_Model_Passport; SIDM01107
Cosmic-CLP; 909723
DepMap; ACH-000465
DSMZCellDive; ACC-303
IGRhCellID; SKMEL1
LINCS_LDP; LCL-1265
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0002129
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN01821599
BioSample; SAMN01821665
BioSample; SAMN03473224
BioSample; SAMN10987654
Chemistry resources ChEMBL-Cells; CHEMBL3308365
ChEMBL-Targets; CHEMBL614916
GDSC; 909723
PharmacoDB; SKMEL1_1393_2019
PubChem_Cell_line; CVCL_0068
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54953753
Experimental variables resources EFO; EFO_0002332
Gene expression databases ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-38
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-2706
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-2770
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-3610
GEO; GSM784507
GEO; GSM827506
GEO; GSM887582
GEO; GSM888665
GEO; GSM1670436
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 688052
Cosmic; 888065
Cosmic; 909723
Cosmic; 928696
Cosmic; 1022279
Cosmic; 1303052
Cosmic; 1459639
Cosmic; 1669128
Cosmic; 1995632
IARC_TP53; 27578
LiGeA; CCLE_788
Progenetix; CVCL_0068
Proteomic databases PRIDE; PXD022992
PRIDE; PXD030304
Sequence databases EGA; EGAS00001000610
EGA; EGAS00001000978
EGA; EGAS00001002554
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number45