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Cellosaurus SK-MEL-31 (CVCL_0600)

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Cell line name SK-MEL-31
Synonyms Sk-Mel-31; SKMEL-31; SKMel-31; SkMel31; SKMEL31; AX-Mel
Accession CVCL_0600
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: SK-MEL-31 (RRID:CVCL_0600)
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; SK1980-527.
Population: Caucasian.
Characteristics: Non-pigmented (PubMed=3473501).
Microsatellite instability: Stable (MSS) (Sanger).
Omics: Genomics; DNA methylation analysis.
Omics: Genomics; Whole exome sequencing.
Omics: Phenotyping; Drug screening.
Omics: Proteomics; Expression; Reverse-phase protein array.
Omics: Transcriptomics; Microarray.
Omics: Transcriptomics; RNAseq.
Omics: Variations; Array-based CGH.
Omics: Variations; SNP array analysis.
Sequence variations
HLA typing Source: PubMed=26589293
Class I
HLA-AA*01:01,31:01
HLA-BB*40:01,53:01
HLA-CC*03:04,04:01
Class II
HLA-DQDQA1*03:02,03:02
DQB1*03:02,03:02
HLA-DRDRB1*04:04,14:103
Genome ancestry Source: PubMed=30894373

Origin% genome
African3.89
Native American0.03
East Asian, North4.7
East Asian, South0
South Asian4.17
European, North26.77
European, South60.44
Disease Cutaneous melanoma (NCIt: C3510)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling 33Y
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): ATCC=HTB-73; Cosmic-CLP=909727; PubMed=25877200

Markers:
AmelogeninX
CSF1PO10
D2S133818,20
D3S135817,18
D5S81811,13
D7S82010
D8S117912,14
D13S31712
D16S53913
D18S5115
D19S43313,14.2
D21S1130,32.2
FGA24
Penta D9
Penta E12,18
TH016,9
TPOX8,11
vWA16,18

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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-31
Publications

PubMed=978138; DOI=10.1084/jem.144.4.873; PMCID=PMC2190439
Hiroshi Shiku, Toshitada Takahashi, Herbert Friedrich Oettgen, Lloyd John Old;
Cell surface antigens of human malignant melanoma. II. Serological typing with immune adherence assays and definition of two new surface antigens.
J. Exp. Med. 144:873-881(1976)

PubMed=1067619; DOI=10.1073/pnas.73.9.3278; PMCID=PMC431008
Thomas E. Carey, Toshitada Takahashi, Lois A. Resnick-Silverman, Herbert Friedrich Oettgen, Lloyd John Old;
Cell surface antigens of human malignant melanoma: mixed hemadsorption assays for humoral immunity to cultured autologous melanoma cells.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 73:3278-3282(1976)

PubMed=6933476; DOI=10.1073/pnas.77.7.4260; PMCID=PMC349812
Alan N. Houghton, Michael C. Taormina, Hisami Ikeda, Tadashi Watanabe, Herbert Friedrich Oettgen, Lloyd John Old;
Serological survey of normal humans for natural antibody to cell surface antigens of melanoma.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 77:4260-4264(1980)

DOI=10.1007/978-1-4615-7228-2_39
Alan N. Houghton, Herbert Friedrich Oettgen, Lloyd John Old;
Malignant melanoma. Current status of the search for melanoma-specific antigens.
(In book chapter) Immunodermatology. Comprehensive Immunology, Vol 7; Safai, Bijan & Good, Robert Alan (eds.); pp.557-576; Springer; Boston; USA (1981)

PubMed=7017212; DOI=10.1093/jnci/66.6.1003
Marilyn S. Pollack, Socorro D. Heagney, Philip O. Livingston, Jorgen Fogh;
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=7175440; DOI=10.1084/jem.156.6.1755; PMCID=PMC2186870
Alan N. Houghton, Magdalena Eisinger, Anthony P. Albino, J. Gregory Cairncross, Lloyd John Old;
Surface antigens of melanocytes and melanomas. Markers of melanocyte differentiation and melanoma subsets.
J. Exp. Med. 156:1755-1766(1982)

PubMed=6864164; DOI=10.1084/jem.158.1.53; PMCID=PMC2187084
Alan N. Houghton, Hannah Brooks, Richard J. Cote, Michael C. Taormina, Herbert Friedrich Oettgen, Lloyd John Old;
Detection of cell surface and intracellular antigens by human monoclonal antibodies. Hybrid cell lines derived from lymphocytes of patients with malignant melanoma.
J. Exp. Med. 158:53-65(1983)

PubMed=6582512; DOI=10.1073/pnas.81.2.568; PMCID=PMC344720
Michael Jules Mattes, Carlos Cordon-Cardo, John L. Lewis Jr., Lloyd John Old, Kenneth Oliver Lloyd;
Cell surface antigens of human ovarian and endometrial carcinoma defined by mouse monoclonal antibodies.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 81:568-572(1984)

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

PubMed=3473501; DOI=10.1073/pnas.84.12.4200; PMCID=PMC305052
Sydney Welt, Michael Jules Mattes, Roberto Grando, Timothy M. Thomson, R.W. Leonard, Pat B. Zanzonico, Rodney Errol Bigler, Samuel D.J. Yeh, Herbert Friedrich Oettgen, Lloyd John Old;
Monoclonal antibody to an intracellular antigen images human melanoma transplants in nu/nu mice.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 84:4200-4204(1987)

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=2784858; DOI=10.1073/pnas.86.8.2804; PMCID=PMC287007
Alexander Knuth, Thomas Wolfel, Eva Klehmann-Hieb, Thierry Boon, Karl-Hermann Meyer zum Buschenfelde;
Cytolytic T-cell clones against an autologous human melanoma: specificity study and definition of three antigens by immunoselection.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 86:2804-2808(1989)

PubMed=9598804; DOI=10.1002/(SICI)1098-2264(199806)22:2<157::AID-GCC11>3.0.CO;2-N
Graeme J. Walker, Jose F. Flores, J. Michael Glendening, Amy Hsiu-Ti Lin, Isabel D.C. Markl, Jane W. Fountain;
Virtually 100% of melanoma cell lines harbor alterations at the DNA level within CDKN2A, CDKN2B, or one of their downstream targets.
Genes Chromosomes Cancer 22:157-163(1998)

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=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=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=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=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.
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Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) ATCC; HTB-73
CancerTools; 161919
KCLB; 30073 - Discontinued
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0009046
cancercelllines; CVCL_0600
Cell_Model_Passport; SIDM01104
Cosmic-CLP; 909727
DepMap; ACH-000640
Lonza; 1344
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN03472881
BioSample; SAMN10988127
Chemistry resources GDSC; 909727
PharmacoDB; SKMEL31_1399_2019
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54954067
Experimental variables resources EFO; EFO_0006489
Gene expression databases ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-2706
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-2770
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-3610
GEO; GSM156033
GEO; GSM276762
GEO; GSM887587
GEO; GSM888670
GEO; GSM1670442
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 688054
Cosmic; 851406
Cosmic; 932998
Cosmic; 933113
Cosmic; 1022273
Cosmic; 1047689
Cosmic; 1102384
Cosmic; 1459643
Cosmic; 1669147
Cosmic; 2159444
Cosmic; 2479254
IARC_TP53; 26115
LiGeA; CCLE_731
Progenetix; CVCL_0600
Sequence databases EGA; EGAS00001000610
EGA; EGAS00001000978
EGA; EGAS00001002554
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number40