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Cellosaurus KGN (CVCL_0375)

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Cell line name KGN
Accession CVCL_0375
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: KGN (RRID:CVCL_0375)
Comments Part of: Cancer Dependency Map project (DepMap) (includes Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia - CCLE).
Part of: COSMIC cell lines project.
Population: Japanese.
Doubling time: 46.4 hours (PubMed=11145608).
Microsatellite instability: Stable (MSS) (Sanger).
Omics: Genomics; DNA methylation analysis.
Omics: Genomics; Whole exome sequencing.
Omics: Phenotyping; Drug screening.
Omics: Proteomics; Quantitative.
Omics: Transcriptomics; Microarray.
Omics: Variations; SNP array analysis.
Derived from site: In situ; Ovary, ovarian follicle, granulosa cell layer; UBERON=UBERON_0005170.
Cell type: Granulosa cell; CL=CL_0000501.
Sequence variations
Genome ancestry Source: PubMed=30894373

Origin% genome
African0
Native American0.09
East Asian, North73.92
East Asian, South24.17
South Asian1.82
European, North0
European, South0
Disease Ovarian granulosa cell tumor (NCIt: C6261)
Maligant granulosa cell tumor of the ovary (ORDO: Orphanet_99915)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Children:
CVCL_C8VY (KGN-EGFP)CVCL_E3DH (KGN-MXIV)CVCL_E3DI (KGN-YAP)
CVCL_E3DJ (KGN-YAP(S127A))
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling 63Y
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): Cosmic-CLP=924186; RCB=RCB1154

Markers:
AmelogeninX
CSF1PO10,12
D5S81813
D7S82011
D13S3179
D16S53910,12
TH019
TPOX8,9
vWA17

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Publications

PubMed=11145608; DOI=10.1210/endo.142.1.7862
Yoshihiro Nishi, Toshihiko Yanase, Yi-Ming Mu, Koichi Oba, Isao Ichino, Masayuki Saito, Masatoshi Nomura, Chizu Mukasa, Taijiro Okabe, Kiminobu Goto, Ryoichi Takayanagi ...Show all 14 authors... , Yoshiko Kashimura, Masafumi Haji, Hajime Nawata; Show fewer authors
Establishment and characterization of a steroidogenic human granulosa-like tumor cell line, KGN, that expresses functional follicle-stimulating hormone receptor.
Endocrinology 142:437-445(2001)

PubMed=15541573; DOI=10.1016/j.mce.2004.04.018
Jon Christopher Havelock, William E. Rainey, Bruce R. Carr;
Ovarian granulosa cell lines.
Mol. Cell. Endocrinol. 228:67-78(2004)

PubMed=18980698; DOI=10.1186/1471-2407-8-319; PMCID=PMC2584659
Misa Imai, Miho Muraki, Kiyoshi Takamatsu, Hidekazu Saito, Motoharu Seiki, Yuji Takahashi;
Spontaneous transformation of human granulosa cell tumours into an aggressive phenotype: a metastasis model cell line.
BMC Cancer 8:319.1-319.10(2008)

PubMed=19956657; DOI=10.1371/journal.pone.0007988; PMCID=PMC2777318
Kasmintan Alexandra Schrader, Bella Gorbatcheva, Janine Senz, AliReza Heravi-Moussavi, Nataliya Melnyk, Clara M. Salamanca, Sarah L. Maines-Bandiera, Susanna L. Cooke, Peter C.K. Leung, James D. Brenton, Cyril Blake Gilks ...Show all 13 authors... , John E. Monahan, David G. Huntsman; Show fewer authors
The specificity of the FOXL2 c.402C>G somatic mutation: a survey of solid tumors.
PLoS ONE 4:e7988.1-e7988.4(2009)

PubMed=20098707; DOI=10.1371/journal.pone.0008789; PMCID=PMC2808356
Berenice A. Benayoun, Sandrine Caburet, Aurelie Dipietromaria, Adrien Georges, Barbara D'Haene, P.J. Eswari Pandaranayaka, David L'Hote, Anne-Laure Todeschini, Sankaran Krishnaswamy, Marc Fellous, Elfride De Baere, Reiner A. Veitia;
Functional exploration of the adult ovarian granulosa cell tumor-associated somatic FOXL2 mutation p.Cys134Trp (c.402C>G).
PLoS ONE 5:e8789.1-e8789.10(2010)

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=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=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=35839778; DOI=10.1016/j.ccell.2022.06.010; PMCID=PMC9387775
Emanuel Goncalves, Rebecca C. Poulos, Zhao-Xiang Cai, Syd Barthorpe, Srikanth S. Manda, Natasha Lucas, Alexandra Beck, Daniel Bucio-Noble, Michael Dausmann, Caitlin Hall, Michael Hecker ...Show all 32 authors... , Jennifer Koh, Howard Lightfoot, Sadia Mahboob, Iman Mali, James Morris, Laura Richardson, Akila J. Seneviratne, Rebecca Shepherd, Erin Sykes, Frances Thomas, Sara Valentini, Steven G. Williams, Yang-Xiu Wu, Dylan Xavier, Karen L. MacKenzie, Peter G. Hains, Brett Tully, Phillip James Robinson, Qing Zhong, Mathew J. Garnett, Roger Robert Reddel; Show fewer authors
Pan-cancer proteomic map of 949 human cell lines.
Cancer Cell 40:835-849.e8(2022)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) KYinno; KC-3936
RCB; RCB1154
Ubigene; YC-C051
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0051454
MCCL; MCC:0000270
cancercelllines; CVCL_0375
Cell_Model_Passport; SIDM00302
Cosmic-CLP; 924186
DepMap; ACH-002149
LINCS_LDP; LCL-1297
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0005671
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN03472163
Chemistry resources ChEMBL-Cells; CHEMBL3308155
ChEMBL-Targets; CHEMBL2366154
GDSC; 924186
PharmacoDB; KGN_746_2019
PubChem_Cell_line; CVCL_0375
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54899838
Experimental variables resources EFO; EFO_0022440
Gene expression databases ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-783
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-3610
FANTOM5_SSTAR; 10624-108H3
GEO; GSM1669985
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 924186
Cosmic; 1149409
Cosmic; 1213591
Cosmic; 1305320
Cosmic; 1312287
Cosmic; 1429993
Cosmic; 2368538
Cosmic; 2697832
IARC_TP53; 27560
Proteomic databases PRIDE; PXD030304
Sequence databases EGA; EGAS00001000978
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update14-Aug-2025
Version number40