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Cellosaurus MOLT-3 (CVCL_0624)

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Cell line name MOLT-3
Synonyms Molt-3; MOLT 3; Molt 3; MOLT3; Molt3
Accession CVCL_0624
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: MOLT-3 (RRID:CVCL_0624)
Comments Part of: Cancer Dependency Map project (DepMap) (includes Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia - CCLE).
Population: Caucasian.
Doubling time: 24-48 hours (CLS=300116); ~40 hours (DSMZ=ACC-84).
Karyotypic information: Hypertetraploid karyotype (ATCC=CRL-1552).
Microsatellite instability: Instable (MSI) (PubMed=10739008; PubMed=31068700).
Omics: Genomics; Whole exome sequencing.
Omics: Proteomics; Quantitative.
Omics: Transcriptomics; RNAseq.
Omics: Variations; SNP array analysis.
Derived from site: In situ; Peripheral blood; UBERON=UBERON_0000178.
Cell type: T-cell; CL=CL_0000084.
Sequence variations
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:7881; NOTCH1; Simple; p.Leu1600Pro (c.4799T>C); Zygosity=Heterozygous (PubMed=15472075; DepMap=ACH-000964).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:7881; NOTCH1; Simple; p.Pro2514Argfs*4 (c.7541_7542delCT); ClinVar=VCV000581973; Zygosity=Heterozygous (PubMed=15472075; DepMap=ACH-000964).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:7989; NRAS; Simple; p.Gln61Lys (c.181C>A); ClinVar=VCV000073058; Zygosity=Heterozygous (DepMap=ACH-000964).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:9588; PTEN; Simple; p.Lys267Argfs*9 (c.800delA) (p.Leu265fs, c.795delA); ClinVar=VCV000092828; Zygosity=Homozygous (DepMap=ACH-000964).
Genome ancestry Source: PubMed=30894373

Origin% genome
African0.91
Native American0
East Asian, North2.31
East Asian, South0
South Asian0.44
European, North66.02
European, South30.32
Disease Adult T acute lymphoblastic leukemia (NCIt: C9142)
Precursor T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ORDO: Orphanet_99861)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Children:
CVCL_S660 (MOLT-3/MTX.P-9)CVCL_S658 (MOLT-3/MTX10000)CVCL_S659 (MOLT-3/MTX200)
CVCL_S652 (MOLT-3/MTXt)CVCL_S653 (MOLT-3/TMQ200)CVCL_S655 (MOLT-3/TMQ2500)
CVCL_S656 (MOLT-3/TMQ800)CVCL_M774 (MOLT-3/Z29)CVCL_S661 (MOLT-3/ZD1694.C)
CVCL_S662 (MOLT-3/ZD1694.P9)CVCL_N031 (MOVP-3)
Originate from same individual CVCL_0013 ! MOLT-4
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling 19Y
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): ATCC=CRL-1552; CLS=300116; COG; DSMZ=ACC-84; PubMed=25877200; RCB=RCB1164

Markers:
AmelogeninX,Y
CSF1PO11,12 (ATCC=CRL-1552; COG; DSMZ=ACC-84)
11,12,13 (CLS=300116; PubMed=25877200; RCB=RCB1164)
D1S165615.3,16,16.3
D2S133822,23,24 (DSMZ=ACC-84)
23,24 (ATCC=CRL-1552; CLS=300116; COG)
D3S135814,15,16,17 (COG)
15,16,17 (ATCC=CRL-1552; CLS=300116; DSMZ=ACC-84; PubMed=25877200)
D5S81812 (ATCC=CRL-1552; PubMed=25877200)
12,13 (CLS=300116; DSMZ=ACC-84; RCB=RCB1164)
D7S8207,8,9 (RCB=RCB1164)
7,8,9,10 (CLS=300116; DSMZ=ACC-84)
8,10 (ATCC=CRL-1552; COG; PubMed=25877200)
D8S11799,13,14,15 (ATCC=CRL-1552; CLS=300116; PubMed=25877200)
9,14 (DSMZ=ACC-84)
9,14,15 (COG)
D13S31711,12,13 (RCB=RCB1164)
12,13 (ATCC=CRL-1552; CLS=300116; COG; DSMZ=ACC-84; PubMed=25877200)
D16S53910,11,13 (RCB=RCB1164)
11,12,14 (COG)
11,13,14 (ATCC=CRL-1552; PubMed=25877200)
11,14 (DSMZ=ACC-84)
11,14,15 (CLS=300116)
D18S5112,13,16,17 (CLS=300116; DSMZ=ACC-84)
13,17 (COG)
13,17,18 (ATCC=CRL-1552; PubMed=25877200)
D19S43314,15 (ATCC=CRL-1552; COG)
14,15,16 (CLS=300116; DSMZ=ACC-84)
D21S1128,29,30,31 (DSMZ=ACC-84)
29,30 (ATCC=CRL-1552; PubMed=25877200)
29,30,31,32 (CLS=300116)
FGA19,21,25 (CLS=300116)
21,22,23,24 (PubMed=25877200)
22,23,24 (DSMZ=ACC-84)
22,24 (ATCC=CRL-1552; COG)
Penta D8,13
Penta E14,16
TH016,8
TPOX8
vWA17 (ATCC=CRL-1552; COG; PubMed=25877200)
17,18 (CLS=300116; DSMZ=ACC-84; RCB=RCB1164)

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Web pages Info; T-ALL cell lines db; -; https://humantallcelllines.wordpress.com/comprehensivetable/molt-3/
Provider; NIBSC; 0010; http://www.nibsc.org/Default.aspx?pageid=597&id=0010&theme=default
Publications

PubMed=4567231; DOI=10.1093/jnci/49.3.891
Jun Minowada, Takao Onuma, George Eugene Moore;
Rosette-forming human lymphoid cell lines. I. Establishment and evidence for origin of thymus-derived lymphocytes.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 49:891-895(1972)

PubMed=4547172; DOI=10.1093/jnci/53.3.655
Chester C. Huang, Y. Hou, Linda K. Woods, George Eugene Moore, Jun Minowada;
Cytogenetic study of human lymphoid T-cell lines derived from lymphocytic leukemia.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 53:655-660(1974)

PubMed=1086134
Joseph Kaplan, Ward Davis Peterson Jr.;
Detection of T-cell lymphoma-associated antigens on cord blood lymphocytes and phytohemagglutinin-stimulated blasts.
Cancer Res. 36:3471-3475(1976)

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

PubMed=6600440; DOI=10.1007/BF02617996
Christel H. Uittenbogaart, Yael Cantor, John L. Fahey;
Growth of human malignant lymphoid cell lines in serum-free medium.
In Vitro 19:67-72(1983)

PubMed=2985879; DOI=10.1016/0145-2126(85)90084-0
Hans Gunther Drexler, Gerhard Gaedicke, Jun Minowada;
Isoenzyme studies in human leukemia-lymphoma cell lines -- 1 Carboxylic esterase.
Leuk. Res. 9:209-229(1985)

PubMed=3159941; DOI=10.1016/0145-2126(85)90134-1
Hans Gunther Drexler, Gerhard Gaedicke, Jun Minowada;
Isoenzyme studies in human leukemia-lymphoma cell lines -- III Beta-hexosaminidase (E.C. 3.2.1.30).
Leuk. Res. 9:549-559(1985)

PubMed=3856477
Takao Ohnuma, Ruju Julia Lo, Kevin J. Scanlon, Barton Aaron Kamen, Taisuke Ohnoshi, Sandra R. Wolman, James Frederick Holland;
Evolution of methotrexate resistance of human acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells in vitro.
Cancer Res. 45:1815-1822(1985)

PubMed=3874327; DOI=10.1016/0145-2126(85)90133-x
Hans Gunther Drexler, Gerhard Gaedicke, Jun Minowada;
Isoenzyme studies in human leukemia-lymphoma cells lines -- II. Acid phosphatase.
Leuk. Res. 9:537-548(1985)

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

PubMed=2846092; DOI=10.1182/blood.V72.5.1755.1755
James M. Greenberg, Rogelio Gonzalez-Sarmiento, Diane C. Arthur, Christopher W. Wilkowski, Barbara J. Streifel, John H. Kersey;
Immunophenotypic and cytogenetic analysis of Molt-3 and Molt-4: human T-lymphoid cell lines with rearrangement of chromosome 7.
Blood 72:1755-1760(1988)

PubMed=7630190
Mu-Xiang Zhou, Lu-Bing Gu, Charles David James, J. He, Andrew M. Yeager, Stephen D. Smith, Harry W. Findley Jr.;
Homozygous deletions of the CDKN2 (MTS1/p16ink4) gene in cell lines established from children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Leukemia 9:1159-1161(1995)

PubMed=8547074; DOI=10.1111/j.1365-2141.1995.tb05302.x
Reiner Siebert, Christoph P. Willers, Alexander Schramm, Alexander Fossa, Irina M. Gana Dresen, Michael J. Uppenkamp, Mohammad Resa Nowrousian, Siegfried Seeber, Bertram Opalka;
Homozygous loss of the MTS1/p16 and MTS2/p15 genes in lymphoma and lymphoblastic leukaemia cell lines.
Br. J. Haematol. 91:350-354(1995)

PubMed=8608962; DOI=10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19960328)66:1<29::AID-IJC6>3.0.CO;2-0
Yuzuru Takemura, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, William Gibson, Rosemary Kimbell, Hayato Miyachi, Ann L. Jackman;
The influence of drug-exposure conditions on the development of resistance to methotrexate or ZD1694 in cultured human leukaemia cells.
Int. J. Cancer 66:29-36(1996)

PubMed=9738977; DOI=10.1111/j.1349-7006.1998.tb03275.x; PMCID=PMC5921886
Jun Takizawa, Ritsuro Suzuki, Hiroyuki Kuroda, Atae Utsunomiya, Yoshitoyo Kagami, Tatsuroh Joh, Yoshifusa Aizawa, Ryuzo Ueda, Masao Seto;
Expression of the TCL1 gene at 14q32 in B-cell malignancies but not in adult T-cell leukemia.
Jpn. J. Cancer Res. 89:712-718(1998)

PubMed=9787181; DOI=10.1182/blood.V92.9.3410
Akira Sakai, Catherine Thieblemont, Axel Wellmann, Elaine Sarkin Jaffe, Mark Raffeld;
PTEN gene alterations in lymphoid neoplasms.
Blood 92:3410-3415(1998)

PubMed=9933131; DOI=10.1016/S0145-2126(98)00133-7
Renate Burger, Thomas E. Hansen-Hagge, Hans Gunther Drexler, Martin Gramatzki;
Heterogeneity of T-acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) cell lines: suggestion for classification by immunophenotype and T-cell receptor studies.
Leuk. Res. 23:19-27(1999)

PubMed=10739008; DOI=10.1016/S0145-2126(99)00182-4
Kaoru Inoue, Takashi Kohno, Satoshi Takakura, Yasuhide Hayashi, Hideaki Mizoguchi, Jun Yokota;
Frequent microsatellite instability and BAX mutations in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell lines.
Leuk. Res. 24:255-262(2000)

DOI=10.1016/B978-0-12-221970-2.50457-5
Hans Gunther Drexler;
The leukemia-lymphoma cell line factsbook.
(In book) ISBN 9780122219702; pp.1-733; Academic Press; London; United Kingdom (2001)

PubMed=11986953; DOI=10.1038/sj.leu.2402485
Peter H. O'Donnell, Wei-Xing Guo, Charles Patrick Reynolds, Barry J. Maurer;
N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)retinamide increases ceramide and is cytotoxic to acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell lines, but not to non-malignant lymphocytes.
Leukemia 16:902-910(2002)

PubMed=12623853; DOI=10.1182/blood-2002-07-2268
Ulrike Schroeder, Kathrin Maria Bernt, Bjorn Lange, Jens Wenkel, Jiang Jikai, Doron Shabat, Roey Amir, Nicole Huebener, Andreas G. Niethammer, Christian Hagemeier, Luder Wiebusch, Gerhard Gaedicke, Wolfgang Wrasidlo ...Show all 15 authors... , Ralph Alfred Reisfeld, Holger N. Lode; Show fewer authors
Hydrolytically activated etoposide prodrugs inhibit MDR-1 function and eradicate established MDR-1 multidrug-resistant T-cell leukemia.
Blood 102:246-253(2003)

PubMed=15472075; DOI=10.1126/science.1102160
Andrew P. Weng, Adolfo A. Ferrando, Woojoong Lee, John P. Morris 4th, Lewis B. Silverman, Cheryll Sanchez-Irizarry, Stephen Charles Blacklow, Alfred Thomas Look, Jon Christopher Aster;
Activating mutations of NOTCH1 in human T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Science 306:269-271(2004)

PubMed=17170727; DOI=10.1038/sj.leu.2404486
Yorick Sandberg, Brenda Verhaaf, Ellen J. van Gastel-Mol, Ingrid L.M. Wolvers-Tettero, John De Vos, Roderick A.F. MacLeod, Jeroen G. Noordzij, Willem A. Dik, Jack J.M. van Dongen, Anton W. Langerak;
Human T-cell lines with well-defined T-cell receptor gene rearrangements as controls for the BIOMED-2 multiplex polymerase chain reaction tubes.
Leukemia 21:230-237(2007)

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, Rui Wang, Angela Tam ...Show all 22 authors... , 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=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=30285677; DOI=10.1186/s12885-018-4840-5; PMCID=PMC6167786
Kar-Tong Tan, Ling-Wen Ding, Qiao-Yang Sun, Zhen-Tang Lao, Wenwen Chien, Xi Ren, Jin-Fen Xiao, Xin-Yi Loh, Liang Xu, Michael Lill, Anand Mayakonda, De-Chen Lin, Henry He Yang ...Show all 14 authors... , Harold Phillip Koeffler; Show fewer authors
Profiling the B/T cell receptor repertoire of lymphocyte derived cell lines.
BMC Cancer 18:940.1-940.13(2018)

PubMed=30629668; DOI=10.1371/journal.pone.0210404; PMCID=PMC6328144
Cord C. Uphoff, Claudia Pommerenke, Sabine A. Denkmann, Hans Gunther Drexler;
Screening human cell lines for viral infections applying RNA-Seq data analysis.
PLoS ONE 14:e0210404.1-e0210404.22(2019)

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)

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Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) ATCC; CRL-1552
BCRC; 60106
BEI_Resources; ARP-12187
CLS; 300116
DSMZ; ACC-84
ECACC; 90021901
IZSLER; BS TCL 44
JCRB; JCRB9048
RCB; RCB1164
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0007824
CLO; CLO_0051008
CLDB; cl3519
CLDB; cl3521
CLDB; cl3522
CLDB; cl3523
cancercelllines; CVCL_0624
Cell_Model_Passport; SIDM00153
DepMap; ACH-000964
DSMZCellDive; ACC-84
IGRhCellID; MOLT3
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0001081
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN03470846
BioSample; SAMN03471394
BioSample; SAMN03472164
BioSample; SAMN03473404
BioSample; SAMN10989586
Chemistry resources ChEMBL-Cells; CHEMBL3307556
ChEMBL-Targets; CHEMBL614176
PharmacoDB; MOLT3_957_2019
PubChem_Cell_line; CVCL_0624
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54906351
Experimental variables resources EFO; EFO_0005265
Gene expression databases ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-38
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-2770
GEO; GSM236793
GEO; GSM236829
GEO; GSM5137730
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 724815
Cosmic; 850193
Cosmic; 913410
Cosmic; 999756
Cosmic; 1191701
Cosmic; 1281377
Cosmic; 1524845
Cosmic; 2301561
Cosmic; 2361367
Cosmic; 2602923
LiGeA; CCLE_717
Progenetix; CVCL_0624
Proteomic databases PRIDE; PXD023662
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number37