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Cellosaurus RPMI-6666 (CVCL_1665)

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Cell line name RPMI-6666
Synonyms RPMI 6666; RPMI6666; Roswell Park Memorial Institute 6666
Accession CVCL_1665
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: RPMI-6666 (RRID:CVCL_1665)
Comments Problematic cell line: Misclassified. Originally thought to be a Hodgkin lymphoma cell line but is a B-lymphoblastoid cell line (PubMed=12592342; PubMed=20143388; PubMed=29533902).
Part of: Cancer Dependency Map project (DepMap) (includes Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia - CCLE).
Part of: COSMIC cell lines project.
Registration: International Cell Line Authentication Committee, Register of Misidentified Cell Lines; ICLAC-00263.
Population: Caucasian.
Microsatellite instability: Stable (MSS) (Sanger).
Transformant: NCBI_TaxID; 10376; Epstein-Barr virus (EBV).
Omics: Genomics; DNA methylation analysis.
Omics: Genomics; Whole exome sequencing.
Omics: Phenotyping; Drug screening.
Omics: Proteomics; Quantitative.
Omics: Transcriptomics; Microarray.
Omics: Variations; SNP array analysis.
HLA typing Source: PubMed=12133989
Class I
HLA-AA*02:01,03:01
HLA-BB*07:02/15,18:01/05
HLA-CC*07:02,07:01/06
Class II
HLA-DQDQB1*06:02/11
HLA-DRDRB1*15:01
DRB5*01
Genome ancestry Source: PubMed=30894373

Origin% genome
African0
Native American0.17
East Asian, North0.15
East Asian, South0
South Asian0.52
European, North71.83
European, South27.33
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling 29Y
Category Transformed cell line
STR profile Source(s): ATCC=CCL-113; Cosmic-CLP=909701; ECACC=87081807

Markers:
AmelogeninX,Y
CSF1PO12,13
D2S133818,26
D3S135817
D5S81811,12
D7S8209,10
D8S117910,13
D13S31711
D16S53911,12
D18S5112,15
D19S43315.2,16
D21S1128,30
FGA22
Penta D11,13
Penta E12,13
TH016,9
TPOX10,11
vWA14,18

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Web pages Info; ICLAC; -; https://iclac.org/wp-content/uploads/Cross-Contaminations_v13_distribution.xlsx
Publications

PubMed=11515052; DOI=10.1093/jnci/44.4.845
Tatsuo Imamura, Chester C. Huang, Jun Minowada, Morinobu Takahashi, George Eugene Moore;
Cloning of human hematopoietic cell lines.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 44:845-854(1970)

PubMed=12133989; DOI=10.4049/jimmunol.169.3.1593
Casper Paludan, Kara Bickham, Sarah Nikiforow, Ming L. Tsang, Kiera Goodman, Willem A. Hanekom, Jean-Francois Fonteneau, Stefan Stevanovic, Christian Munz;
Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen 1-specific CD4(+) Th1 cells kill Burkitt's lymphoma cells.
J. Immunol. 169:1593-1603(2002)

PubMed=12592342; DOI=10.1038/sj.leu.2402799
Hans Gunther Drexler, Wilhelm Gerhard Dirks, Yoshinobu Matsuo, Roderick A.F. MacLeod;
False leukemia-lymphoma cell lines: an update on over 500 cell lines.
Leukemia 17:416-426(2003)

PubMed=20143388; DOI=10.1002/ijc.25242
Amanda Capes-Davis, George Theodosopoulos, Isobel Atkin, Hans Gunther Drexler, Arihiro Kohara, Roderick A.F. MacLeod, John R.W. Masters, Yukio Nakamura, Yvonne A. Reid, Roger Robert Reddel, Robert Ian Freshney;
Check your cultures! A list of cross-contaminated or misidentified cell lines.
Int. J. Cancer 127:1-8(2010)

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=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=29533902; DOI=10.1515/hsz-2017-0321
Hans Gunther Drexler, Claudia Pommerenke, Sonja Eberth, Stefan Nagel;
Hodgkin lymphoma cell lines: to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Biol. Chem. 399:511-523(2018)

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=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
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Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) ATCC; CCL-113
ECACC; 87081807
KCLB; 10113
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0008870
Cell_Model_Passport; SIDM00813
Cosmic-CLP; 909701
DepMap; ACH-001182
IGRhCellID; RPMI6666
LINCS_LDP; LCL-2013
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN03151630
BioSample; SAMN03472694
BioSample; SAMN10988187
Chemistry resources ChEMBL-Cells; CHEMBL3308884
ChEMBL-Targets; CHEMBL2366187
GDSC; 909701
PharmacoDB; RPMI6666_1325_2019
PubChem_Cell_line; CVCL_1665
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54951196
Experimental variables resources EFO; EFO_0002321
Gene expression databases ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-38
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-783
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-3610
GEO; GSM887546
GEO; GSM888629
GEO; GSM1670387
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 684228
Cosmic; 909701
IARC_TP53; 21291
Proteomic databases PRIDE; PXD030304
Sequence databases EGA; EGAS00001000978
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update14-Aug-2025
Version number36