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Cellosaurus TK6 (CVCL_0561)

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Cell line name TK6
Synonyms TK-6; H2BT
Accession CVCL_0561
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: TK6 (RRID:CVCL_0561)
Comments Registration: International Depositary Authority, American Type Culture Collection (ATCC); CRL-8015.
Population: Caucasian.
Doubling time: 12.2 hours (PubMed=7744731).
Selected for resistance to: ChEBI; CHEBI_9555; Tioguanine (6-thioguanine; 6-TG).
Transformant: NCBI_TaxID; 10376; Epstein-Barr virus (EBV).
Transformant: ChEBI; CHEBI_132982; Acridine half-mustard dihydrochloride (6-chloro-9-[3-(2-chloroethylamino)propylamino]-2-methoxyacridine dihydrochloride; Acridine mutagen ICR 191).
Omics: Transcriptomics; Microarray.
Omics: Transcriptomics; RNAseq.
Derived from site: In situ; Spleen; UBERON=UBERON_0002106.
Cell type: B-cell; CL=CL_0000236.
Sequence variations
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:11272; SPTA1; Simple; p.Ser1163Ala (c.3487T>G); ClinVar=VCV000258929; Zygosity=Homozygous (from parent cell line).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:11830; TK1; Simple; p.Ala78Argfs*27 (c.231insC); Zygosity=Heterozygous (PubMed=7859358).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:11998; TP53; None_reported; -; Zygosity=- (PubMed=7744731; PubMed=11221843).
Disease Hereditary spherocytosis (NCIt: C97074)
Hereditary spherocytosis (ORDO: Orphanet_822)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Parent: CVCL_X906 (HH4)
Children:
CVCL_E8BN (MT1)CVCL_A1RF (NH32)CVCL_AR68 (TK6 (IVGT))
CVCL_2733 (TK6TGR)CVCL_WN50 (TSCE5)CVCL_A1SH (TX545)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling 5Y
Category Transformed cell line
STR profile Source(s): ATCC=CRL-8015; CLS=300357; ECACC=95111735

Markers:
AmelogeninX,Y
CSF1PO11,12
D2S133817,25
D3S135816
D5S81812,13
D7S8209,11
D8S117910,13
D13S31711
D16S53911,12
D18S5111,16
D19S43314,16
D21S1129
FGA22,24
Penta D11,12
Penta E5,7
TH018,9.3
TPOX8,11
vWA17,20

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Publications

PubMed=214074; DOI=10.1016/0006-291X(78)90185-7
Thomas R. Skopek, Howard L. Liber, Bruce W. Penman, William G. Thilly;
Isolation of a human lymphoblastoid line heterozygous at the thymidine kinase locus: possibility for a rapid human cell mutation assay.
Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 84:411-416(1978)

Patent=US4302535
Thomas R. Skopek, Howard L. Liber, Bruce W. Penman, William G. Thilly, Henry Hoppe 4th;
Assay for mutagenesis in heterozygous diploid human lymphoblasts.
Patent number US4302535, 24-Nov-1981

PubMed=3012798; DOI=10.1007/BF01570784
David William Yandell, Thaddeus Peter Dryja, John Bertram Little;
Somatic mutations at a heterozygous autosomal locus in human cells occur more frequently by allele loss than by intragenic structural alterations.
Somat. Cell Mol. Genet. 12:255-263(1986)

PubMed=3745200; DOI=10.1016/S0021-9258(18)67110-8
Victor S. Goldmacher, Robert A. Cuzick Jr., William G. Thilly;
Isolation and partial characterization of human cell mutants differing in sensitivity to killing and mutation by methylnitrosourea and N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine.
J. Biol. Chem. 261:12462-12471(1986)

PubMed=8316623; DOI=10.2307/3578190
Helen Harrington Evans, Marlene Ricanati, Min-Fen Horng, Qiao-Yun Jiang, Jaroslav Mencl, Peggy Louise Olive;
DNA double-strand break rejoining deficiency in TK6 and other human B-lymphoblast cell lines.
Radiat. Res. 134:307-315(1993)

PubMed=7565900; DOI=10.1016/0165-7992(95)00027-5
Li-Shi Zhang, Masamitsu Honma, Makoto Hayashi, Takayoshi Suzuki, Atsuko Matsuoka, Toshio Sofuni;
A comparative study of TK6 human lymphoblastoid and L5178Y mouse lymphoma cell lines in the in vitro micronucleus test.
Mutat. Res. 347:105-115(1995)

PubMed=7744731; DOI=10.1074/jbc.270.19.11033
John Bertram Little, Hatsumi Nagasawa, Peter C. Keng, Yong-Jia Yu, Chuan-Yuan Li;
Absence of radiation-induced G1 arrest in two closely related human lymphoblast cell lines that differ in p53 status.
J. Biol. Chem. 270:11033-11036(1995)

PubMed=7859358; DOI=10.1093/carcin/16.2.267
Cynthia R. Giver, Stephen L. Nelson Jr., Mirabelle Y. Cha, Punnajit Pongsaensook, Andrew J. Grosovsky;
Mutational spectrum of X-ray induced TK- human cell mutants.
Carcinogenesis 16:267-275(1995)

PubMed=9258685; DOI=10.1093/genetics/146.4.1429; PMCID=PMC1208086
Cynthia R. Giver, Andrew J. Grosovsky;
Single and coincident intragenic mutations attributable to gene conversion in a human cell line.
Genetics 146:1429-1439(1997)

PubMed=10397247
Yao-Yu Eric Chuang, Qi Chen, Joseph P. Brown, John Michael Sedivy, Howard L. Liber;
Radiation-induced mutations at the autosomal thymidine kinase locus are not elevated in p53-null cells.
Cancer Res. 59:3073-3076(1999)

PubMed=11221843
Claudia Wiese, Stacey S. Gauny, Wei-Chung Liu, Corinne L. Cherbonnel-Lasserre, Amy Kronenberg;
Different mechanisms of radiation-induced loss of heterozygosity in two human lymphoid cell lines from a single donor.
Cancer Res. 61:1129-1137(2001)

PubMed=15033590; DOI=10.1289/ehp.6709; PMCID=PMC1241894
Ronald K. Newton, Marilyn J. Aardema, Jiri Aubrecht;
The utility of DNA microarrays for characterizing genotoxicity.
Environ. Health Perspect. 112:420-422(2004)

PubMed=18805990; DOI=10.1101/gad.1688508; PMCID=PMC2559901
Rebecca C. Fry, J. Peter Svensson, Chandni Valiathan, Emma Wang, Brad J. Hogan, Sanchita Bhattacharya, James M. Bugni, Charles A. Whittaker, Leona D. Samson;
Genomic predictors of interindividual differences in response to DNA damaging agents.
Genes Dev. 22:2621-2626(2008)

PubMed=22042714; DOI=10.1093/mutage/ger074
Kiyohiro Hashimoto, Yumi Nakajima, Rieko Uematsu, Fumio Chatani;
Difference in susceptibility to morphological changes in the nucleus to aneugens between p53-competent and p53-abrogated lymphoblastoid cell lines (TK6 and NH32 cells) in the in vitro micronucleus assay.
Mutagenesis 27:287-293(2012)

PubMed=22525470; DOI=10.18926/AMO/48262
Hiroaki Oka, Mamoru Ouchida, Takuya Kondo, Fumio Morita, Kenji Shimizu;
Different responses to 5-fluoraouracil in mutagenicity and gene expression between two human lymphoblastoid cell lines with or without TP53 mutation.
Acta Med. Okayama 66:119-129(2012)

PubMed=26774668; DOI=10.1016/j.mrgentox.2015.11.006
Javier Revollo, Dayton M. Petibone, Page McKinzie, Bridgett Knox, Suzanne M. Morris, Bai-Tang Ning, Vasily N. Dobrovolsky;
Whole genome and normalized mRNA sequencing reveal genetic status of TK6, WTK1, and NH32 human B-lymphoblastoid cell lines.
Mutat. Res. Genet. Toxicol. Environ. Mutagen. 795:60-69(2016)

PubMed=27692294; DOI=10.1016/j.mrgentox.2016.08.001
Elisabeth Lorge, Martha May Moore, Julie Clements, Michael Rickard O'Donovan, Mick D. Fellows, Masamitsu Honma, Arihiro Kohara, Sheila Margaret Galloway, Michael J. Armstrong, Veronique Thybaud, Bala Bhaskar Gollapudi ...Show all 13 authors... , Marilyn J. Aardema, Jennifer Young Tanir; Show fewer authors
Standardized cell sources and recommendations for good cell culture practices in genotoxicity testing.
Mutat. Res. Genet. Toxicol. Environ. Mutagen. 809:1-15(2016)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) ATCC; CRL-8015
BCRC; 60107
BCRJ; 0410
CLS; 300357
ECACC; 95111735
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0009357
MCCL; MCC:0000463
CLDB; cl4519
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0003707
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN03471129
Chemistry resources ChEMBL-Cells; CHEMBL4295397
ChEMBL-Targets; CHEMBL4296502
PubChem_Cell_line; CVCL_0561
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54972535
Gene expression databases ArrayExpress; E-TOXM-7
GEO; GSE65477
GEO; GSM260653
GEO; GSM260654
GEO; GSM260655
GEO; GSM260656
Polymorphism and mutation databases IARC_TP53; 21695
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number29