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Cellosaurus Calu-3 (CVCL_0609)

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Cell line name Calu-3
Synonyms CaLu-3; CALU-3; Calu 3; Calu3; CALU3
Accession CVCL_0609
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: Calu-3 (RRID:CVCL_0609)
Comments Part of: Cancer Dependency Map project (DepMap) (includes Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia - CCLE).
Part of: COSMIC cell lines project.
Part of: KuDOS 95 cell line panel.
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; SK1980-533.
Population: Caucasian.
Virology: Susceptible to infection by SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (COVID-19) (PubMed=34339474).
Doubling time: 35 hours (Note=In RPMI 1640 + 10% FBS), 45 hours (Note=In ACL-3), 37 hours (Note=In ACL-3+BSA) (PubMed=3940644); 40.1 hours (PubMed=29681454); ~84 hours (PubMed=34339474).
Microsatellite instability: Stable (MSS) (Sanger).
Omics: Array-based CGH.
Omics: Cell surface proteome.
Omics: CRISPR phenotypic screen.
Omics: Deep exome analysis.
Omics: Deep quantitative proteome analysis.
Omics: DNA methylation analysis.
Omics: Protein expression by reverse-phase protein arrays.
Omics: SNP array analysis.
Omics: Transcriptome analysis by microarray.
Omics: Transcriptome analysis by RNAseq.
Misspelling: CALV3; Cosmic=1434969.
Derived from site: Metastatic; Pleural effusion; UBERON=UBERON_0000175.
Sequence variations
  • Mutation; HGNC; 11998; TP53; Simple; p.Met237Ile (c.711G>T); ClinVar=VCV000634770; Zygosity=Homozygous (PubMed=20557307; ATCC).
HLA typing Source: PubMed=26589293
Class I
HLA-AA*24:02,68:01
HLA-BB*07:02,51:01
HLA-CC*15:02,15:02
Genome ancestry Source: PubMed=30894373

Origin% genome
African0.63
Native American0
East Asian, North2.09
East Asian, South0
South Asian0
European, North67.76
European, South29.51
Disease Lung adenocarcinoma (NCIt: C3512)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Children:
CVCL_B0ZC (Abcam Calu-3 TMPRSS2 KO)CVCL_YZ47 (Calu-3 2B4)CVCL_EQ19 (Calu3-GemR)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling 25Y
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): AddexBio; ATCC; CCRID; Cosmic-CLP; KCLB; PubMed=25877200

Markers:
AmelogeninX
CSF1PO11,12
D2S133819
D3S135815,18
D5S81811
D7S82010,11
D8S117911,15
D13S31712
D16S53912,14
D18S5114,17
D19S43312,13
D21S1128,30
FGA25
Penta D9,16
Penta E5,21
TH016,9.3
TPOX8
vWA16,17

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Web pages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calu-3
https://www.thermofisher.com/ch/en/home/technical-resources/cell-lines/c/cell-lines-detail-604.html
https://www.mskcc.org/research-advantage/support/technology/tangible-material/calu-3-human-lung-cell-line
https://tcpaportal.org/mclp/
Publications

PubMed=327080; DOI=10.1093/jnci/59.1.221
Fogh J., Fogh J.M., Orfeo T.
One hundred and twenty-seven cultured human tumor cell lines producing tumors in nude mice.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 59:221-226(1977)

PubMed=7459858
Rousset M., Zweibaum A., Fogh J.
Presence of glycogen and growth-related variations in 58 cultured human tumor cell lines of various tissue origins.
Cancer Res. 41:1165-1170(1981)

PubMed=6220172
Dracopoli N.C., Fogh J.
Polymorphic enzyme analysis of cultured human tumor cell lines.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 70:469-476(1983)

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

PubMed=3940644
Brower M., Carney D.N., Oie H.K., Gazdar A.F., Minna J.D.
Growth of cell lines and clinical specimens of human non-small cell lung cancer in a serum-free defined medium.
Cancer Res. 46:798-806(1986)

PubMed=3129183
Hubbard W.C., Alley M.C., McLemore T.L., Boyd M.R.
Evidence for thromboxane biosynthesis in established cell lines derived from human lung adenocarcinomas.
Cancer Res. 48:2674-2677(1988)

PubMed=3335022
Alley M.C., Scudiero D.A., Monks A., Hursey M.L., Czerwinski M.J., Fine D.L., Abbott B.J., Mayo J.G., Shoemaker R.H., Boyd M.R.
Feasibility of drug screening with panels of human tumor cell lines using a microculture tetrazolium assay.
Cancer Res. 48:589-601(1988)

PubMed=7515578; DOI=10.1152/ajplung.1994.266.5.L493
Shen B.-Q., Finkbeiner W.E., Wine J.J., Mrsny R.J., Widdicombe J.H.
Calu-3: a human airway epithelial cell line that shows cAMP-dependent Cl-secretion.
Am. J. Physiol. 266:L493-L501(1994)

PubMed=9636188; DOI=10.1073/pnas.95.13.7556
Kaplan D.H., Shankaran V., Dighe A.S., Stockert E., Aguet M., Old L.J., Schreiber R.D.
Demonstration of an interferon gamma-dependent tumor surveillance system in immunocompetent mice.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95:7556-7561(1998)

PubMed=10523844; DOI=10.1038/sj.onc.1202957
Agochiya M., Brunton V.G., Owens D.W., Parkinson E.K., Paraskeva C., Keith W.N., Frame M.C.
Increased dosage and amplification of the focal adhesion kinase gene in human cancer cells.
Oncogene 18:5646-5653(1999)

PubMed=11064206; DOI=10.1016/S0378-5173(00)00452-X
Foster K.A., Avery M.L., Yazdanian M., Audus K.L.
Characterization of the Calu-3 cell line as a tool to screen pulmonary drug delivery.
Int. J. Pharm. 208:1-11(2000)

PubMed=15463957; DOI=10.1016/j.jcf.2004.05.040
Gruenert D.C., Willems M., Cassiman J.-J., Frizzell R.A.
Established cell lines used in cystic fibrosis research.
J. Cyst. Fibros. 3:191-196(2004)

PubMed=17483357; DOI=10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-4495
Tooker P., Yen W.-C., Ng S.-C., Negro-Vilar A., Hermann T.W.
Bexarotene (LGD1069, Targretin), a selective retinoid X receptor agonist, prevents and reverses gemcitabine resistance in NSCLC cells by modulating gene amplification.
Cancer Res. 67:4425-4433(2007)

PubMed=18083107; DOI=10.1016/j.cell.2007.11.025
Rikova K., Guo A.-L., Zeng Q.-F., Possemato A., Yu J., Haack H., Nardone J., Lee K., Reeves C., Li Y., Hu Y.-R., Tan Z.-P., Stokes M.P., Sullivan L., Mitchell J., Wetzel R., MacNeill J., Ren J.-M., Yuan J., Bakalarski C.E., Villen J., Kornhauser J.M., Smith B., Li D.-Q., Zhou X.-M., Gygi S.P., Gu T.-L., Polakiewicz R.D., Rush J., Comb M.J.
Global survey of phosphotyrosine signaling identifies oncogenic kinases in lung cancer.
Cell 131:1190-1203(2007)

PubMed=19153074; DOI=10.1093/hmg/ddp034
Medina P.P., Castillo S.D., Blanco S., Sanz-Garcia M., Largo C., Alvarez S., Yokota J., Gonzalez-Neira A., Benitez J., Clevers H.C., Cigudosa J.C., Lazo P.A., Sanchez-Cespedes M.
The SRY-HMG box gene, SOX4, is a target of gene amplification at chromosome 6p in lung cancer.
Hum. Mol. Genet. 18:1343-1352(2009)

PubMed=19472407; DOI=10.1002/humu.21028
Blanco R., Iwakawa R., Tang M.-Y., Kohno T., Angulo B., Pio R., Montuenga L.M., Minna J.D., Yokota J., Sanchez-Cespedes M.
A gene-alteration profile of human lung cancer cell lines.
Hum. Mutat. 30:1199-1206(2009)

PubMed=20090954; DOI=10.1371/journal.pone.0008729
Yoshikawa T., Hill T.E., Yoshikawa N., Popov V.L., Galindo C.L., Garner H.R., Peters C.J., Tseng C.-T.
Dynamic innate immune responses of human bronchial epithelial cells to severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus infection.
PLoS ONE 5:E8729-E8729(2010)

PubMed=20164919; DOI=10.1038/nature08768
Bignell G.R., Greenman C.D., Davies H., 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
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=20557307; DOI=10.1111/j.1349-7006.2010.01622.x
Iwakawa R., Kohno T., Enari M., Kiyono T., Yokota J.
Prevalence of human papillomavirus 16/18/33 infection and p53 mutation in lung adenocarcinoma.
Cancer Sci. 101:1891-1896(2010)

PubMed=22460905; DOI=10.1038/nature11003
Barretina J.G., Caponigro G., Stransky N., Venkatesan K., Margolin A.A., Kim S., Wilson C.J., Lehar J., Kryukov G.V., Sonkin D., Reddy A., Liu M., Murray L., Berger M.F., Monahan J.E., Morais P., Meltzer J., Korejwa A., Jane-Valbuena J., Mapa F.A., Thibault J., Bric-Furlong E., Raman P., Shipway A., Engels I.H., Cheng J., Yu G.-Y.K., Yu J.-J., Aspesi P. Jr., de Silva M., Jagtap K., Jones M.D., Wang L., Hatton C., Palescandolo E., Gupta S., Mahan S., Sougnez C., Onofrio R.C., Liefeld T., MacConaill L.E., Winckler W., Reich M., Li N.-X., Mesirov J.P., Gabriel S.B., Getz G., Ardlie K., Chan V., Myer V.E., Weber B.L., Porter J., Warmuth M., Finan P., Harris J.L., Meyerson M.L., Golub T.R., Morrissey M.P., Sellers W.R., Schlegel R., Garraway L.A.
The Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia enables predictive modelling of anticancer drug sensitivity.
Nature 483:603-607(2012)

PubMed=22961666; DOI=10.1158/2159-8290.CD-12-0112
Byers L.A., Wang J., Nilsson M.B., Fujimoto J., Saintigny P., Yordy J., Giri U., Peyton M., Fan Y.-H., Diao L.-X., Masrorpour F., Shen L., Liu W.-B., Duchemann B., Tumula P., Bhardwaj V., Welsh J., Weber S., Glisson B.S., Kalhor N., Wistuba I.I., Girard L., Lippman S.M., Mills G.B., Coombes K.R., Weinstein J.N., Minna J.D., Heymach J.V.
Proteomic profiling identifies dysregulated pathways in small cell lung cancer and novel therapeutic targets including PARP1.
Cancer Discov. 2:798-811(2012)

PubMed=24207061; DOI=10.1186/1559-0275-10-16
Cerciello F., Choi M., Nicastri A., Bausch-Fluck D., Ziegler A., Vitek O., Felley-Bosco E., Stahel R.A., Aebersold R., Wollscheid B.
Identification of a seven glycopeptide signature for malignant pleural mesothelioma in human serum by selected reaction monitoring.
Clin. Proteomics 10:16.1-16.12(2013)

PubMed=25485619; DOI=10.1038/nbt.3080
Klijn C., Durinck S., Stawiski E.W., Haverty P.M., Jiang Z.-S., Liu H.-B., Degenhardt J., Mayba O., Gnad F., Liu J.-F., Pau G., Reeder J., Cao Y., Mukhyala K., Selvaraj S.K., Yu M.-M., Zynda G.J., Brauer M.J., Wu T.D., Gentleman R.C., Manning G., Yauch R.L., Bourgon R., Stokoe D., Modrusan Z., Neve R.M., de Sauvage F.J., Settleman J., Seshagiri S., Zhang Z.-M.
A comprehensive transcriptional portrait of human cancer cell lines.
Nat. Biotechnol. 33:306-312(2015)

PubMed=25555374; DOI=10.1016/j.ejps.2014.12.017
Kreft M.E., Dragin Jerman U., Lasic E., Hevir-Kene N., Lanisnik Rizner T., Peternel L., Kristan K.
The characterization of the human cell line Calu-3 under different culture conditions and its use as an optimized in vitro model to investigate bronchial epithelial function.
Eur. J. Pharm. Sci. 69:1-9(2015)

PubMed=25877200; DOI=10.1038/nature14397
Yu M., Selvaraj S.K., Liang-Chu M.M.Y., Aghajani S., Busse M., Yuan J., Lee G., Peale F.V., Klijn C., Bourgon R., Kaminker J.S., Neve R.M.
A resource for cell line authentication, annotation and quality control.
Nature 520:307-311(2015)

PubMed=25894527; DOI=10.1371/journal.pone.0121314
Bausch-Fluck D., Hofmann A., Bock T., Frei A.P., Cerciello F., Jacobs A., Moest H., Omasits U., Gundry R.L., Yoon C., Schiess R., Schmidt A., Mirkowska P., Hartlova A.S., Van Eyk J.E., Bourquin J.-P., Aebersold R., Boheler K.R., Zandstra P.W., Wollscheid B.
A mass spectrometric-derived cell surface protein atlas.
PLoS ONE 10:E0121314-E0121314(2015)

PubMed=26589293; DOI=10.1186/s13073-015-0240-5
Scholtalbers J., Boegel S., Bukur T., Byl M., Goerges S., Sorn P., Loewer M., Sahin U., Castle J.C.
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
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=28196595; DOI=10.1016/j.ccell.2017.01.005
Li J., Zhao W., Akbani R., Liu W.-B., Ju Z.-L., Ling S.-Y., Vellano C.P., Roebuck P., Yu Q.-H., Eterovic A.K., Byers L.A., Davies M.A., Deng W.-L., Gopal Y.N.V., Chen G., von Euw E.M., Slamon D.J., Conklin D., Heymach J.V., Gazdar A.F., Minna J.D., Myers J.N., Lu Y.-L., Mills G.B., Liang H.
Characterization of human cancer cell lines by reverse-phase protein arrays.
Cancer Cell 31:225-239(2017)

PubMed=29681454; DOI=10.1016/j.cell.2018.03.028
McMillan E.A., Ryu M.-J., Diep C.H., Mendiratta S., Clemenceau J.R., Vaden R.M., Kim J.-H., Motoyaji T., Covington K.R., Peyton M., Huffman K., Wu X.-F., Girard L., Sung Y., Chen P.-H., Mallipeddi P.L., Lee J.Y., Hanson J., Voruganti S., Yu Y., Park S., Sudderth J., DeSevo C., Muzny D.M., Doddapaneni H., Gazdar A.F., Gibbs R.A., Hwang T.H., Heymach J.V., Wistuba I.I., Coombes K.R., Williams N.S., Wheeler D.A., MacMillan J.B., DeBerardinis R.J., Roth M.G., Posner B.A., Minna J.D., Kim H.S., White M.A.
Chemistry-first approach for nomination of personalized treatment in lung cancer.
Cell 173:864-878.e29(2018)

PubMed=30894373; DOI=10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-18-2747
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
Ghandi M., Huang F.W., Jane-Valbuena J., Kryukov G.V., Lo C.C., McDonald E.R. III, 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=34339474; DOI=10.1371/journal.pone.0255622
Pommerenke C., Rand U., Uphoff C.C., Nagel S., Zaborski M., Hauer V., Kaufmann M., Meyer C., Denkmann S.A., Riese P., Eschke K., Kim Y., Safranko Z.M., Kurolt I.-C., Markotic A., Cicin-Sain L., Steenpass L.
Identification of cell lines CL-14, CL-40 and CAL-51 as suitable models for SARS-CoV-2 infection studies.
PLoS ONE 16:E0255622-E0255622(2021)

PubMed=35839778; DOI=10.1016/j.ccell.2022.06.010
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)

PubMed=35879413; DOI=10.1038/s41588-022-01110-2
Rebendenne A., Roy P., Bonaventure B., Chaves Valadao A.L., Desmarets L., Arnaud-Arnould M., Rouille Y., Tauziet M., Giovannini D., Touhami J., Lee Y., DeWeirdt P., Hegde M., Urbach S., El Koulali K., de Gracia F.G., McKellar J., Dubuisson J., Wencker M., Belouzard S., Moncorge O., Doench J.G., Goujon C.
Bidirectional genome-wide CRISPR screens reveal host factors regulating SARS-CoV-2, MERS-CoV and seasonal HCoVs.
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Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) Abcam; ab275465
AddexBio; C0016001/30
ATCC; HTB-55
BCRJ; 0264
CLS; 305032
IZSLER; BS TCL 103
KCLB; 30055
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0002192
CLDB; cl634
CLDB; cl635
CLDB; cl5176
cancercelllines; CVCL_0609
CCRID; 1101HUM-PUMC000032
CCRID; 1101HUM-PUMC000329
CCRID; 3101HUMTCHu157
CCRID; 4201HUM-CCTCC00647
Cell_Model_Passport; SIDM00922
Cosmic-CLP; 687777
DepMap; ACH-000392
IGRhCellID; Calu3
LINCS_HMS; 50010
LINCS_LDP; LCL-1631
Lonza; 342
TOKU-E; 768
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO:0002750
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN03471552
BioSample; SAMN10988517
CRISP screens repositories BioGRID_ORCS_Cell_line; 1375
Chemistry resources ChEMBL-Cells; CHEMBL3307390
ChEMBL-Targets; CHEMBL614534
GDSC; 687777
PharmacoDB; Calu3_179_2019
PubChem_Cell_line; CVCL_0609
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q52392355
Experimental variables resources EFO; EFO_0002819
Gene expression databases ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-38
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-783
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-2706
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-2770
GEO; GSM108803
GEO; GSM108804
GEO; GSM159355
GEO; GSM159356
GEO; GSM159357
GEO; GSM159358
GEO; GSM253347
GEO; GSM353233
GEO; GSM434276
GEO; GSM513948
GEO; GSM514318
GEO; GSM784249
GEO; GSM794262
GEO; GSM827549
GEO; GSM886915
GEO; GSM887981
GEO; GSM1374433
GEO; GSM1374434
GEO; GSM1669658
Metabolomic databases MetaboLights; MTBLS762
MetaboLights; MTBLS2840
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 687777
Cosmic; 910562
Cosmic; 933578
Cosmic; 945227
Cosmic; 961842
Cosmic; 1006532
Cosmic; 1028940
Cosmic; 1146873
Cosmic; 1219068
Cosmic; 1239869
Cosmic; 1434969
Cosmic; 1802295
Cosmic; 2125219
Cosmic; 2664117
Cosmic; 2772161
IARC_TP53; 21264
LiGeA; CCLE_462
Progenetix; CVCL_0609
Proteomic databases PRIDE; PXD000589
PRIDE; PRD000594
PRIDE; PXD019645
PRIDE; PXD023418
PRIDE; PXD023422
PRIDE; PXD023760
PRIDE; PXD024242
PRIDE; PXD024375
PRIDE; PXD024883
PRIDE; PXD025499
PRIDE; PXD026302
PRIDE; PXD030304
PRIDE; PXD034135
Sequence databases EGA; EGAS00001000610
EGA; EGAS00001002554
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update30-Jan-2024
Version number43