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Cellosaurus SaOS-2 (CVCL_0548)

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Cell line name SaOS-2
Synonyms SAOS-2; Saos-2; SAOS 2; Saos 2; Saos2; SaOs2; SAOS2; Sarcoma OSteogenic-2; SaOS; SAOS
Accession CVCL_0548
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: SaOS-2 (RRID:CVCL_0548)
Comments Part of: Cancer Dependency Map project (DepMap) (includes Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia - CCLE).
Part of: COSMIC cell lines project.
Part of: Naval Biosciences Laboratory (NBL) collection (transferred to ATCC in 1982).
From: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; New York; USA.
Registration: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Office of Technology Development; SK 771.
Population: Caucasian.
Doubling time: 48 hours (PubMed=16888811); 45.7 +- 3.3 hours (PubMed=10763916); ~48 hours (PubMed=21519327); 35-40 hours (CLS=300331); ~43 hours (DSMZ=ACC-243).
Microsatellite instability: Stable (MSS) (PubMed=23671654; Sanger).
Omics: Array-based CGH.
Omics: Deep exome analysis.
Omics: Deep quantitative proteome analysis.
Omics: DNA methylation analysis.
Omics: H3K4me1 ChIP-seq epigenome analysis.
Omics: SNP array analysis.
Omics: Transcriptome analysis by microarray.
Omics: Transcriptome analysis by RNAseq.
Derived from site: In situ; Bone; UBERON=UBERON_0002481.
Sequence variations
Genome ancestry Source: PubMed=30894373

Origin% genome
African1.32
Native American0.17
East Asian, North0.46
East Asian, South0.55
South Asian6.66
European, North52.25
European, South38.6
Disease Osteosarcoma (NCIt: C9145)
Osteosarcoma (ORDO: Orphanet_668)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Children:
CVCL_KU47 (Saos-2 Tet-Off)CVCL_C8WB (Saos-2-EGFP)CVCL_C8WC (Saos-2-Luc)
CVCL_X642 (SAOS-alpha2beta1)CVCL_9563 (SaOS-LM1)CVCL_9U47 (Saos2-I)
CVCL_XF78 (STA5)CVCL_SA52 (SuperSOST C9)CVCL_SA53 (SuperSOST G5)
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling 11Y
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): ATCC=HTB-85; CCRID; CLS=300331; Cosmic-CLP=909707; DSMZ=ACC-243; ECACC=89050205; PubMed=11416159; PubMed=19787792; RCB=RCB0428; TKG=TKG 0469

Markers:
AmelogeninX
CSF1PO10
D2S133818
D3S135814,18
D5S81812
D7S8208,10
D8S117910,12
D13S31712,13
D16S53912,13
D18S5115 (CCRID; CLS=300331; DSMZ=ACC-243; PubMed=11416159)
15,22 (ATCC=HTB-85; PubMed=19787792)
D19S43313
D21S1128,30
FGA22,25
Penta D11,12
Penta E14,19
SE3319,20
TH016,9
TPOX8
vWA18

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Web pages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saos-2_cells
http://www.cells-talk.com/index.php/page/copelibrary?key=SaOS-2
https://www.thermofisher.com/ch/en/home/technical-resources/cell-lines/s/cell-lines-detail-20.html
https://www.mskcc.org/research-advantage/support/technology/tangible-material/human-osteosarcoma-cell-line-saos-2
Publications

PubMed=833871; DOI=10.1093/jnci/58.2.209
Fogh J., Wright W.C., Loveless J.D.
Absence of HeLa cell contamination in 169 cell lines derived from human tumors.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 58:209-214(1977)

PubMed=6935474; DOI=10.1093/jnci/66.2.239
Wright W.C., Daniels W.P., Fogh J.
Distinction of seventy-one cultured human tumor cell lines by polymorphic enzyme analysis.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 66:239-247(1981)

PubMed=7017212; DOI=10.1093/jnci/66.6.1003
Pollack M.S., Heagney S.D., Livingston P.O., Fogh J.
HLA-A, B, C and DR alloantigen expression on forty-six cultured human tumor cell lines.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 66:1003-1012(1981)

PubMed=3518877; DOI=10.3109/07357908609038260
Fogh J.
Human tumor lines for cancer research.
Cancer Invest. 4:157-184(1986)

PubMed=2823272; DOI=10.1073/pnas.84.21.7716; PMCID=PMC299371
Masuda H., Miller C., Koeffler H.P., Battifora H.A., Cline M.J.
Rearrangement of the p53 gene in human osteogenic sarcomas.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 84:7716-7719(1987)

PubMed=3040234
Rodan S.B., Imai Y., Thiede M.A., Wesolowski G., Thompson D., Bar-Shavit Z., Shull S., Mann K., Rodan G.A.
Characterization of a human osteosarcoma cell line (Saos-2) with osteoblastic properties.
Cancer Res. 47:4961-4966(1987)

PubMed=2233717; DOI=10.1128/mcb.10.11.5772-5781.1990; PMCID=PMC361354
Diller L., Kassel J., Nelson C.E., Gryka M.A., Litwak G., Gebhardt M., Bressac B., Ozturk M., Baker S.J., Vogelstein B., Friend S.H.
p53 functions as a cell cycle control protein in osteosarcomas.
Mol. Cell. Biol. 10:5772-5781(1990)

PubMed=8617485; DOI=10.1016/S0046-8177(96)90115-X
Scotlandi K., Serra M., Manara M.C., Benini S., Sarti M., Maurici D., Lollini P.-L., Picci P., Bertoni F., Baldini N.
Immunostaining of the p30/32MIC2 antigen and molecular detection of EWS rearrangements for the diagnosis of Ewing's sarcoma and peripheral neuroectodermal tumor.
Hum. Pathol. 27:408-416(1996)

PubMed=10763916; DOI=10.1023/A:1006623001465
Jia S.-F., Worth L.L., Kleinerman E.S.
A nude mouse model of human osteosarcoma lung metastases for evaluating new therapeutic strategies.
Clin. Exp. Metastasis 17:501-506(1999)

PubMed=11416159; DOI=10.1073/pnas.121616198; PMCID=PMC35459
Masters J.R.W., Thomson J.A., Daly-Burns B., Reid Y.A., Dirks W.G., Packer P., Toji L.H., Ohno T., Tanabe H., Arlett C.F., Kelland L.R., Harrison M., Virmani A.K., Ward T.H., Ayres K.L., Debenham P.G.
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=12645653; DOI=10.1016/S0165-4608(02)00685-4
Ozaki T., Neumann T., Wai D.H., Schaefer K.-L., van Valen F., Lindner N., Scheel C., Boecker W., Winkelmann W., Dockhorn-Dworniczak B., Horst J., Poremba C.
Chromosomal alterations in osteosarcoma cell lines revealed by comparative genomic hybridization and multicolor karyotyping.
Cancer Genet. Cytogenet. 140:145-152(2003)

PubMed=15150091; DOI=10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-03-0809
Schaefer K.-L., Brachwitz K., Wai D.H., Braun Y., Diallo R., Korsching E., Eisenacher M., Voss R., van Valen F., Baer C., Selle B., Spahn L., Liao S.-K., Lee K.A.W., Hogendoorn P.C.W., Reifenberger G., Gabbert H.E., Poremba C.
Expression profiling of t(12;22) positive clear cell sarcoma of soft tissue cell lines reveals characteristic up-regulation of potential new marker genes including ERBB3.
Cancer Res. 64:3395-3405(2004)

PubMed=15736406
Pautke C., Schieker M., Tischer T., Kolk A., Neth P., Mutschler W., Milz S.
Characterization of osteosarcoma cell lines MG-63, Saos-2 and U-2 OS in comparison to human osteoblasts.
Anticancer Res. 24:3743-3748(2004)

PubMed=15939397; DOI=10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.05.097
Hausser H.-J., Brenner R.E.
Phenotypic instability of Saos-2 cells in long-term culture.
Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 333:216-222(2005)

PubMed=16888811; DOI=10.1002/jcb.21073
Moneo V., Serelde B.G., Fominaya J.M., Martinez-Leal J.F., Blanco-Aparicio C., Romero L., Sanchez-Beato M., Cigudosa J.C., Tercero J.C., Piris M.A., Jimeno J.M., Carnero A.
Extreme sensitivity to Yondelis (Trabectedin, ET-743) in low passaged sarcoma cell lines correlates with mutated p53.
J. Cell. Biochem. 100:339-348(2007)

PubMed=17354236; DOI=10.1002/ijc.22643
Muller C.R., Paulsen E.B., Noordhuis P., Pedeutour F., Saeter G., Myklebost O.
Potential for treatment of liposarcomas with the MDM2 antagonist Nutlin-3A.
Int. J. Cancer 121:199-205(2007)

PubMed=17431109; DOI=10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-06-0729
Moneo V., Serelde B.G., Leal J.F.M., Blanco-Aparicio C., Diaz-Uriarte R., Aracil M., Tercero J.C., Jimeno J.M., Carnero A.
Levels of p27(kip1) determine Aplidin sensitivity.
Mol. Cancer Ther. 6:1310-1316(2007)

PubMed=17981215; DOI=10.1016/j.cancergencyto.2007.08.003
Selvarajah S., Yoshimoto M., Maire G., Paderova J., Bayani J., Squire J.A., Zielenska M.
Identification of cryptic microaberrations in osteosarcoma by high-definition oligonucleotide array comparative genomic hybridization.
Cancer Genet. Cytogenet. 179:52-61(2007)

PubMed=19787792; DOI=10.1002/gcc.20717
Ottaviano L., Schaefer K.-L., Gajewski M., Huckenbeck W., Baldus S.E., Rogel U., Mackintosh C., de Alava E., Myklebost O., Kresse S.H., Meza-Zepeda L.A., Serra M., Cleton-Jansen A.-M., Hogendoorn P.C.W., Buerger H., Aigner T., Gabbert H.E., Poremba C.
Molecular characterization of commonly used cell lines for bone tumor research: a trans-European EuroBoNet effort.
Genes Chromosomes Cancer 49:40-51(2010)

PubMed=20164919; DOI=10.1038/nature08768; PMCID=PMC3145113
Bignell G.R., Greenman C.D., Davies H.R., Butler A.P., Edkins S., Andrews J.M., Buck G., Chen L., Beare D., Latimer C., Widaa S., Hinton J., Fahey C., Fu B.-Y., Swamy S., Dalgliesh G.L., Teh B.T., Deloukas P., Yang F.-T., Campbell P.J., Futreal P.A., Stratton M.R.
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
Rothenberg S.M., Mohapatra G., Rivera M.N., Winokur D., Greninger P., Nitta M., Sadow P.M., Sooriyakumar G., Brannigan B.W., Ulman M.J., Perera R.M., Wang R., Tam A., Ma X.-J., Erlander M., Sgroi D.C., Rocco J.W., Lingen M.W., Cohen E.E.W., Louis D.N., Settleman J., Haber D.A.
A genome-wide screen for microdeletions reveals disruption of polarity complex genes in diverse human cancers.
Cancer Res. 70:2158-2164(2010)

PubMed=21519327; DOI=10.1038/labinvest.2011.72
Mohseny A.B., Machado I., Cai Y.-P., Schaefer K.-L., Serra M., Hogendoorn P.C.W., Llombart-Bosch A., Cleton-Jansen A.-M.
Functional characterization of osteosarcoma cell lines provides representative models to study the human disease.
Lab. Invest. 91:1195-1205(2011)

PubMed=22075555; DOI=10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-11-2778; PMCID=PMC3833671
Huang G.-X., Yu L., Cooper L.J.N., Hollomon M., Huls H., Kleinerman E.S.
Genetically modified T cells targeting interleukin-11 receptor alpha-chain kill human osteosarcoma cells and induce the regression of established osteosarcoma lung metastases.
Cancer Res. 72:271-281(2012)

PubMed=23144859; DOI=10.1371/journal.pone.0048262; PMCID=PMC3492335
Kresse S.H., Rydbeck H., Skarn M., Namlos H.M., Barragan-Polania A.H., Cleton-Jansen A.-M., Serra M., Liestol K., Hogendoorn P.C.W., Hovig E., Myklebost O., Meza-Zepeda L.A.
Integrative analysis reveals relationships of genetic and epigenetic alterations in osteosarcoma.
PLoS ONE 7:E48262-E48262(2012)

PubMed=23671654; DOI=10.1371/journal.pone.0063056; PMCID=PMC3646030
Lu Y.-H., Soong T.D., Elemento O.
A novel approach for characterizing microsatellite instability in cancer cells.
PLoS ONE 8:E63056-E63056(2013)

PubMed=24758355; DOI=10.1186/1471-2407-14-281; PMCID=PMC4023704
Moneo V., Serelde B.G., Blanco-Aparicio C., Diaz-Uriarte R., Aviles P., Santamaria G., Tercero J.C., Cuevas C., Carnero A.
Levels of active tyrosine kinase receptor determine the tumor response to Zalypsis.
BMC Cancer 14:281.1-281.10(2014)

PubMed=25031706; PMCID=PMC4097260
Du L., Fan Q.-M., Tu B., Yan W., Tang T.-T.
Establishment and characterization of a new highly metastatic human osteosarcoma cell line derived from Saos2.
Int. J. Clin. Exp. Pathol. 7:2871-2882(2014)

PubMed=26320182; DOI=10.18632/oncotarget.5177; PMCID=PMC4745740
Ren L., Mendoza A., Zhu J., Briggs J.W., Halsey C., Hong E.S., Burkett S.S., Morrow J.J., Lizardo M.M., Osborne T., Li S.Q., Luu H.H., Meltzer P.S., Khanna C.
Characterization of the metastatic phenotype of a panel of established osteosarcoma cells.
Oncotarget 6:29469-29481(2015)

PubMed=26351324; DOI=10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-15-0074; PMCID=PMC4636476
Teicher B.A., Polley E.C., Kunkel M., Evans D., Silvers T.E., Delosh R.M., Laudeman J., Ogle C., Reinhart R., Selby M., Connelly J., Harris E., Monks A., Morris J.
Sarcoma cell line screen of oncology drugs and investigational agents identifies patterns associated with gene and microRNA expression.
Mol. Cancer Ther. 14:2452-2462(2015)

PubMed=27397505; DOI=10.1016/j.cell.2016.06.017; PMCID=PMC4967469
Iorio F., Knijnenburg T.A., Vis D.J., Bignell G.R., Menden M.P., Schubert M., Aben N., Goncalves E., Barthorpe S., Lightfoot H., Cokelaer T., Greninger P., van Dyk E., Chang H., de Silva H., Heyn H., Deng X.-M., Egan R.K., Liu Q.-S., Mironenko T., Mitropoulos X., Richardson L., Wang J.-H., Zhang T.-H., Moran S., Sayols S., Soleimani M., Tamborero D., Lopez-Bigas N., Ross-Macdonald P., Esteller M., Gray N.S., Haber D.A., Stratton M.R., Benes C.H., Wessels L.F.A., Saez-Rodriguez J., McDermott U., Garnett M.J.
A landscape of pharmacogenomic interactions in cancer.
Cell 166:740-754(2016)

PubMed=29334376; DOI=10.1038/nm.4475; PMCID=PMC5803371
Morrow J.J., Bayles I., Funnell A.P.W., Miller T.E., Saiakhova A., Lizardo M.M., Bartels C.F., Kapteijn M.Y., Hung S., Mendoza A., Dhillon G., Chee D.R., Myers J.T., Allen F., Gambarotti M., Righi A., DiFeo A., Rubin B.P., Huang A.Y., Meltzer P.S., Helman L.J., Picci P., Versteeg H.H., Stamatoyannopoulos J.A., Khanna C., Scacheri P.C.
Positively selected enhancer elements endow osteosarcoma cells with metastatic competence.
Nat. Med. 24:176-185(2018)

PubMed=30894373; DOI=10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-18-2747; PMCID=PMC6445675
Dutil J., Chen Z.-H., Monteiro A.N.A., Teer J.K., Eschrich S.A.
An interactive resource to probe genetic diversity and estimated ancestry in cancer cell lines.
Cancer Res. 79:1263-1273(2019)

PubMed=31068700; DOI=10.1038/s41586-019-1186-3; PMCID=PMC6697103
Ghandi M., Huang F.W., Jane-Valbuena J., Kryukov G.V., Lo C.C., McDonald E.R. 3rd, Barretina J.G., Gelfand E.T., Bielski C.M., Li H.-X., Hu K., Andreev-Drakhlin A.Y., Kim J., Hess J.M., Haas B.J., Aguet F., Weir B.A., Rothberg M.V., Paolella B.R., Lawrence M.S., Akbani R., Lu Y.-L., Tiv H.L., Gokhale P.C., de Weck A., Mansour A.A., Oh C., Shih J., Hadi K., Rosen Y., Bistline J., Venkatesan K., Reddy A., Sonkin D., Liu M., Lehar J., Korn J.M., Porter D.A., Jones M.D., Golji J., Caponigro G., Taylor J.E., Dunning C.M., Creech A.L., Warren A.C., McFarland J.M., Zamanighomi M., Kauffmann A., Stransky N., Imielinski M., Maruvka Y.E., Cherniack A.D., Tsherniak A., Vazquez F., Jaffe J.D., Lane A.A., Weinstock D.M., Johannessen C.M., Morrissey M.P., Stegmeier F., Schlegel R., Hahn W.C., Getz G., Mills G.B., Boehm J.S., Golub T.R., Garraway L.A., Sellers W.R.
Next-generation characterization of the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia.
Nature 569:503-508(2019)

PubMed=31978347; DOI=10.1016/j.cell.2019.12.023; PMCID=PMC7339254
Nusinow D.P., Szpyt J., Ghandi M., Rose C.M., McDonald E.R. 3rd, Kalocsay M., Jane-Valbuena J., Gelfand E.T., Schweppe D.K., Jedrychowski M.P., Golji J., Porter D.A., Rejtar T., Wang Y.K., Kryukov G.V., Stegmeier F., Erickson B.K., Garraway L.A., Sellers W.R., Gygi S.P.
Quantitative proteomics of the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia.
Cell 180:387-402.e16(2020)

PubMed=35839778; DOI=10.1016/j.ccell.2022.06.010; PMCID=PMC9387775
Goncalves E., Poulos R.C., Cai Z.-X., Barthorpe S., Manda S.S., Lucas N., Beck A., Bucio-Noble D., Dausmann M., Hall C., Hecker M., Koh J., Lightfoot H., Mahboob S., Mali I., Morris J., Richardson L., Seneviratne A.J., Shepherd R., Sykes E., Thomas F., Valentini S., Williams S.G., Wu Y.-X., Xavier D., MacKenzie K.L., Hains P.G., Tully B., Robinson P.J., Zhong Q., Garnett M.J., Reddel R.R.
Pan-cancer proteomic map of 949 human cell lines.
Cancer Cell 40:835-849.e8(2022)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) ATCC; CRL-7939 - Discontinued
ATCC; HTB-85
BCRJ; 0217
CCTCC; GDC0075
CLS; 300331
DSMZ; ACC-243
ECACC; 89050205
ICLC; HTL01001
IZSLER; BS TCL 90
KCB; KCB 200550YJ
KCLB; 30085
KCLB; 80023 - Discontinued
NCBI_Iran; C453
RCB; RCB0428
RCB; RCB3688
TKG; TKG 0469
Ubigene; YC-D017
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0008947
CLO; CLO_0050140
MCCL; MCC:0000449
CLDB; cl4250
CLDB; cl4251
CLDB; cl4252
CLDB; cl5281
cancercelllines; CVCL_0548
CCRID; 1101HUM-PUMC000025
CCRID; 3101HUMSCSP5057
CCRID; 3101HUMTCHu114
CCRID; 4201HUM-CCTCC00075
Cell_Model_Passport; SIDM01084
Cosmic-CLP; 909707
DepMap; ACH-000410
DSMZCellDive; ACC-243
LINCS_LDP; LCL-1430
Lonza; 747
TOKU-E; 3085
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO:0000971
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN01821594
BioSample; SAMN01821661
BioSample; SAMN03471126
BioSample; SAMN10987923
Chemistry resources ChEMBL-Cells; CHEMBL3307737
ChEMBL-Targets; CHEMBL614894
GDSC; 909707
PharmacoDB; Saos2_1343_2019
PubChem_Cell_line; CVCL_0548
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q7420876
Experimental variables resources EFO; EFO_0022402
Gene expression databases ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-783
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-2770
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-3610
GEO; GSM170249
GEO; GSM185150
GEO; GSM185151
GEO; GSM320830
GEO; GSM827588
GEO; GSM879222
GEO; GSM1639703
GEO; GSM1639704
GEO; GSM1670401
GEO; GSM1676314
GEO; GSM1701648
GEO; GSM1915012
GEO; GSM1915013
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 687930
Cosmic; 755311
Cosmic; 897500
Cosmic; 909707
Cosmic; 931039
Cosmic; 931912
Cosmic; 1044086
Cosmic; 1044269
Cosmic; 1070841
Cosmic; 1074395
Cosmic; 1082492
Cosmic; 1529898
Cosmic; 1733126
Cosmic; 2301582
Cosmic; 2816206
IARC_TP53; 21653
LiGeA; CCLE_519
Progenetix; CVCL_0548
Proteomic databases PRIDE; PXD016398
PRIDE; PXD017130
PRIDE; PXD021564
PRIDE; PXD025970
PRIDE; PXD030304
Sequence databases EGA; EGAS00001000978
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update10-Sep-2024
Version number45