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Cellosaurus SK-MEL-3 (CVCL_0550)

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Cell line name SK-MEL-3
Synonyms SK-Mel-3; Sk-mel-3; SK-MEL3; SK-Mel3; SKMEL3
Accession CVCL_0550
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: SK-MEL-3 (RRID:CVCL_0550)
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; SK1980-523.
Population: Caucasian.
Doubling time: ~40-50 hours (DSMZ=ACC-321).
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; Array-based CGH.
Omics: Variations; SNP array analysis.
Derived from site: Metastatic; Lymph node; UBERON=UBERON_0000029.
Sequence variations
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:1097; BRAF; Simple; p.Val600Glu (c.1799T>A); ClinVar=VCV000013961; Zygosity=Heterozygous (PubMed=12068308; PubMed=17260012; ATCC=HTB-69; Cosmic-CLP=909724; DepMap=ACH-000423).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:11998; TP53; Simple; p.Arg267Trp (c.799C>T); ClinVar=VCV000141764; Zygosity=Homozygous (PubMed=17260012; ATCC=HTB-69; Cosmic-CLP=909724; DepMap=ACH-000423).
HLA typing Source: PubMed=26589293
Class I
HLA-AA*24:02,24:02
HLA-BB*44:03,51:01
HLA-CC*04:01,15:04
Class II
HLA-DQDQA1*01:02,01:02
DQB1*04:01,04:01
HLA-DRDRB1*03:17,14:01
Genome ancestry Source: PubMed=30894373

Origin% genome
African1.51
Native American0
East Asian, North2.94
East Asian, South0
South Asian8.82
European, North24.17
European, South62.57
Disease Cutaneous melanoma (NCIt: C3510)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Children:
CVCL_RS85 (SK-MEL-3rCDDP1000)CVCL_RS86 (SK-MEL-3rDACARB20)
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling 42Y
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): ATCC=HTB-69; Cosmic-CLP=909724; DSMZ=ACC-321; KCLB=30069; PubMed=25877200

Markers:
AmelogeninX
CSF1PO9,10
D2S133823
D3S135817,18
D5S81811
D7S8208,10
D8S117914
D13S31712,13
D16S53911
D18S5110,18
D19S43317
D21S1129,30
FGA24
Penta D9,13
Penta E11,15
TH016
TPOX8
vWA14,18

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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-3
Publications

DOI=10.1007/978-1-4757-1647-4_5
Jorgen Fogh, Germain L. Trempe;
New human tumor cell lines.
(In book chapter) Human tumor cells in vitro; Fogh, Jorgen (eds.); pp.115-159; Springer; New York; USA (1975)

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=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=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=12068308; DOI=10.1038/nature00766
Helen R. Davies, Graham Robert Bignell, Charles Cox, Philip J. Stephens, Sarah Edkins, Sheila Clegg, Jon W. Teague, Hayley Woffendin, Mathew J. Garnett, William Bottomley, Neil Davis ...Show all 52 authors... , Ed Dicks, Rebecca Ewing, Yvonne Floyd, Kristian Gray, Sarah Hall, Rachel Hawes, Jaime Hughes, Vivian Kosmidou, Andrew Menzies, Catherine Mould, Adrian Parker, Claire Stevens, Stephen Watt, Steven Hooper, Rebecca Wilson, Hiran Jayatilake, Barry Austin Gusterson, Colin S. Cooper, Janet M. Shipley, Darren Hargrave, Kathy Pritchard-Jones, Norman J. Maitland, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Gregory J. Riggins, Darell Doty Bigner, Giuseppe Palmieri, Antonio Cossu, Adrienne M. Flanagan, Andrew Nicholson, Judy W.C. Ho, Suet Yi Leung, Siu Tsan Yuen, Barbara L. Weber, Hilliard Foster Seigler, Timothy L. Darrow, Hugh F. Paterson, Richard Marais, Christopher John Marshall, Richard Wooster, Michael Rudolf Stratton, P. Andrew Futreal; Show fewer authors
Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer.
Nature 417:949-954(2002)

PubMed=17260012; DOI=10.1038/sj.onc.1210252
Goran Jonsson, Christina Dahl, Johan Staaf, Troy Sandberg, Par-Ola Bendahl, Markus Ringner, Per Guldberg, Ake Borg;
Genomic profiling of malignant melanoma using tiling-resolution arrayCGH.
Oncogene 26:4738-4748(2007)

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=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=23285177; DOI=10.1371/journal.pone.0052760; PMCID=PMC3532357
Adam B. Schayowitz, Greg P. Bertenshaw, Emiko Jeffries, Timothy Schatz, James Cotton, Jessie Villanueva, Meenhard Herlyn, Clemens Krepler, Adina Vultur, Wei Xu, Gordon H. Yu ...Show all 13 authors... , Lynn Mara Schuchter, Douglas P. Clark; Show fewer authors
Functional profiling of live melanoma samples using a novel automated platform.
PLoS ONE 7:e52760.1-e52760.8(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=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=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=31068700; DOI=10.1038/s41586-019-1186-3; PMCID=PMC6697103
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.
Nature 569:503-508(2019)

PubMed=31978347; DOI=10.1016/j.cell.2019.12.023; PMCID=PMC7339254
David Paul Nusinow, John Szpyt, Mahmoud Ghandi, Christopher M. Rose, E. Robert McDonald 3rd, Marian Kalocsay, Judit Jane-Valbuena, Ellen T. Gelfand, Devin K. Schweppe, Mark P. Jedrychowski, Javad Golji ...Show all 20 authors... , Dale A. Porter, Tomas Rejtar, Y. Karen Wang, Gregory V. Kryukov, Frank Stegmeier, Brian K. Erickson, Levi Alexander Garraway, William Raj Sellers, Steven P. Gygi; Show fewer authors
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
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) ATCC; HTB-69
CancerTools; 161918
DSMZ; ACC-321
KCLB; 30069
NCBI_Iran; C458
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0009044
cancercelllines; CVCL_0550
Cell_Model_Passport; SIDM01105
Cosmic-CLP; 909724
DepMap; ACH-000423
DSMZCellDive; ACC-321
IGRhCellID; SKMEL3
LINCS_LDP; LCL-1266
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0002132
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN03472882
BioSample; SAMN10988234
Chemistry resources ChEMBL-Cells; CHEMBL3307449
ChEMBL-Targets; CHEMBL614920
GDSC; 909724
PharmacoDB; SKMEL3_1397_2019
PubChem_Cell_line; CVCL_0550
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54954057
Experimental variables resources EFO; EFO_0002333
Gene expression databases ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-38
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-783
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-2706
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-2770
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-3610
GEO; GSM156045
GEO; GSM827519
GEO; GSM887588
GEO; GSM888671
GEO; GSM1670440
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 687443
Cosmic; 874445
Cosmic; 888063
Cosmic; 909724
Cosmic; 1022286
Cosmic; 1047688
Cosmic; 1459671
Cosmic; 1995636
Cosmic; 2159449
IARC_TP53; 26114
LiGeA; CCLE_928
Progenetix; CVCL_0550
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