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Cellosaurus SCC-4 (CVCL_1684)

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Cell line name SCC-4
Synonyms SCC 4; SCC4
Accession CVCL_1684
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: SCC-4 (RRID:CVCL_1684)
Comments Part of: Cancer Dependency Map project (DepMap) (includes Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia - CCLE).
Part of: COSMIC cell lines project.
Population: Caucasian.
Doubling time: ~60-70 hours (DSMZ=ACC-618).
Microsatellite instability: Stable (MSS) (Sanger).
Omics: Genomics; DNA methylation analysis.
Omics: Genomics; Whole exome sequencing.
Omics: Phenotyping; CRISPR screening.
Omics: Phenotyping; Drug screening.
Omics: Proteomics; Expression; Reverse-phase protein array.
Omics: Proteomics; Quantitative.
Omics: Transcriptomics; Microarray.
Omics: Transcriptomics; RNAseq.
Omics: Variations; Array-based CGH.
Omics: Variations; SNP array analysis.
Derived from site: In situ; Oral cavity, tongue; UBERON=UBERON_0001723.
Sequence variations
HLA typing Source: PubMed=26589293
Class I
HLA-AA*02:01,02:01
HLA-BB*07:02,44:03
HLA-CC*04:01,07:02
Class II
HLA-DQDQA1*01:02,02:01
DQB1*02:02,06:02
HLA-DRDRB1*07:01,15:01
Genome ancestry Source: PubMed=30894373

Origin% genome
African0
Native American0.04
East Asian, North0
East Asian, South1.1
South Asian0.53
European, North69.79
European, South28.55
Disease Tongue squamous cell carcinoma (NCIt: C4648)
Squamous cell carcinoma of the oral tongue (ORDO: Orphanet_457252)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling 55Y
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): ATCC=CRL-1624; Cosmic-CLP=910904; DSMZ=ACC-618; PubMed=21868764

Markers:
AmelogeninX,Y
CSF1PO11
D2S133816,24
D3S135818
D5S81813
D7S8209,11
D8S117914
D13S31711,13
D16S53912
D18S5115
D19S43312,14
D21S1132.2
FGA21,22
Penta D12
Penta E14
TH019.3
TPOX8
vWA15,17

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Publications

PubMed=7214336
James George Rheinwald, Michael A. Beckett;
Tumorigenic keratinocyte lines requiring anchorage and fibroblast support cultured from human squamous cell carcinomas.
Cancer Res. 41:1657-1663(1981)

PubMed=6186388; DOI=10.1016/0092-8674(82)90324-5
Ying-Jye Wu, Leroy Monroe Parker, Neil E. Binder, Michael A. Beckett, John H. Sinard, C. Thomas Griffiths, James George Rheinwald;
The mesothelial keratins: a new family of cytoskeletal proteins identified in cultured mesothelial cells and nonkeratinizing epithelia.
Cell 31:693-703(1982)

PubMed=6722007; DOI=10.1038/bjc.1984.94; PMCID=PMC1976725
Ralph R. Weichselbaum, William K. Dahlberg, John Bertram Little, Thomas J. Ervin, Daniel Miller, Samuel Hellman, James George Rheinwald;
Cellular X-ray repair parameters of early passage squamous cell carcinoma lines derived from patients with known responses to radiotherapy.
Br. J. Cancer 49:595-601(1984)

PubMed=3458227; DOI=10.1073/pnas.83.8.2684; PMCID=PMC323364
Ralph R. Weichselbaum, William K. Dahlberg, Michael A. Beckett, Theodore Karrison, Daniel Miller, John Clark, Thomas J. Ervin;
Radiation-resistant and repair-proficient human tumor cells may be associated with radiotherapy failure in head- and neck-cancer patients.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 83:2684-2688(1986)

PubMed=3417487; DOI=10.1016/0360-3016(88)90297-0
Ralph R. Weichselbaum, Michael A. Beckett, Jeffrey L. Schwartz, Anatoly Dritschilo;
Radioresistant tumor cells are present in head and neck carcinomas that recur after radiotherapy.
Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 15:575-579(1988)

PubMed=2573646; DOI=10.1080/09553008914551731
Ralph R. Weichselbaum, Jacob Rotmensch, Sijsan Ahmed-Swan, Michael A. Beckett;
Radiobiological characterization of 53 human tumor cell lines.
Int. J. Radiat. Biol. 56:553-560(1989)

PubMed=1394225
Kenneth D. Somers, M. Anne Merrick, Martha E. Lopez, Leonard S. Incognito, Gary L. Schechter, Graham Casey;
Frequent p53 mutations in head and neck cancer.
Cancer Res. 52:5997-6000(1992)

PubMed=8390283; DOI=10.1038/bjc.1993.238; PMCID=PMC1968513
Julie E. Burns, M.C. Baird, Louise J. Clark, Philip A. Burns, Kirsten Gilian Edington, Charlotte Chapman, Roy Mitchell, Gordon Robertson, David Soutar, Eric Kenneth Parkinson;
Gene mutations and increased levels of p53 protein in human squamous cell carcinomas and their cell lines.
Br. J. Cancer 67:1274-1284(1993)

DOI=10.1016/B978-0-12-333530-2.50007-1
Thomas E. Carey;
Head and neck tumor cell lines.
(In book chapter) Atlas of human tumor cell lines; Hay, Robert J. & Park, Jae-Gahb & Gazdar, Adi F. (eds.); pp.79-120; Academic Press; New York; USA (1994)

PubMed=17312569; DOI=10.1002/hed.20478
Charles J. Lin, Jennifer Rubin Grandis, Thomas E. Carey, Susanne M. Gollin, Theresa L. Whiteside, Wayne M. Koch, Robert Louis Ferris, Stephen Y. Lai;
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cell lines: established models and rationale for selection.
Head Neck 29:163-188(2007)

PubMed=20014447; DOI=10.1002/hed.21311; PMCID=PMC2930055
Ivy F.L. Tsui, Cathie Garnis;
Integrative molecular characterization of head and neck cancer cell model genomes.
Head Neck 32:1143-1160(2010)

PubMed=20145189; DOI=10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-09-0076; PMCID=PMC2833226
Nitin Chakravarti, Humam Kadara, Do-Jun Yoon, Jerry W. Shay, Jeffrey N. Myers, Dafna Lotan, Nahum Sonenberg, Reuben Lotan;
Differential inhibition of protein translation machinery by curcumin in normal, immortalized, and malignant oral epithelial cells.
Cancer Prev. Res. (Philadelphia) 3:331-338(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, Jonathan Hinton, Ciara Fahey ...Show all 22 authors... , 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)

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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
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Cancer Res. 70:2158-2164(2010)

PubMed=21868764; DOI=10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-11-0690; PMCID=PMC3229662
Mei Zhao, Daisuke Sano, Curtis R. Pickering, Samar A. Jasser, Ying C. Henderson, Gary L. Clayman, Erich M. Sturgis, Thomas J. Ow, Reuben Lotan, Thomas E. Carey, Peter G. Sacks, Jennifer Rubin Grandis, David Sidransky ...Show all 15 authors... , Nils-Erik Heldin, Jeffrey N. Myers; Show fewer authors
Assembly and initial characterization of a panel of 85 genomically validated cell lines from diverse head and neck tumor sites.
Clin. Cancer Res. 17:7248-7264(2011)

PubMed=22006338; DOI=10.1073/pnas.1114669108; PMCID=PMC3203814
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Loss-of-function mutations in Notch receptors in cutaneous and lung squamous cell carcinoma.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 108:17761-17766(2011)

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, Manway Liu, Lauren Murray ...Show all 61 authors... , 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=24825747; DOI=10.1530/ERC-14-0102
Yi-Lin Chang, Yu-Kan Hsu, Tsung-Fan Wu, Chieh-Ming Huang, Li-Yin Liou, Ya-Wen Chiu, Yu-Hsuan Hsiao, Fuh-Jinn Luo, Ta-Chun Yuan;
Regulation of estrogen receptor alpha function in oral squamous cell carcinoma cells by FAK signaling.
Endocr. Relat. Cancer 21:555-565(2014)

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
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A landscape of pharmacogenomic interactions in cancer.
Cell 166:740-754(2016)

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Genomic characterization of human papillomavirus-positive and -negative human squamous cell cancer cell lines.
Oncotarget 8:86369-86383(2017)

PubMed=30135316; DOI=10.1172/jci.insight.122204; PMCID=PMC6141174
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Evofosfamide for the treatment of human papillomavirus-negative head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
JCI Insight 3:e122204.1-e122204.19(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=30971826; DOI=10.1038/s41586-019-1103-9
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Prioritization of cancer therapeutic targets using CRISPR-Cas9 screens.
Nature 568:511-516(2019)

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Next-generation characterization of the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia.
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Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) ATCC; CRL-1624
BCRC; 60142
BCRJ; 0195
CLS; 305384
DSMZ; ACC-618
ECACC; 89062002
JCRB; JCRB9118
RCB; RCB0745 - Discontinued
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0008968
cancercelllines; CVCL_1684
Cell_Model_Passport; SIDM01081
Cosmic-CLP; 910904
DepMap; ACH-000238
DSMZCellDive; ACC-618
IGRhCellID; SCC4%20GSE9585
LINCS_LDP; LCL-1224
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0003775
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN01821596
BioSample; SAMN01821663
BioSample; SAMN03471408
BioSample; SAMN10987944
CRISP screens repositories BioGRID_ORCS_Cell_line; 1005
Chemistry resources ChEMBL-Cells; CHEMBL3308803
ChEMBL-Targets; CHEMBL1075570
GDSC; 910904
PharmacoDB; SCC4_1355_2019
PubChem_Cell_line; CVCL_1684
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54952345
Gene expression databases ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-783
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-2770
ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-3610
GEO; GSM422869
GEO; GSM423672
GEO; GSM827188
GEO; GSM887560
GEO; GSM888643
GEO; GSM1374865
GEO; GSM1670411
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 910904
Cosmic; 921833
Cosmic; 1118794
Cosmic; 1339920
Cosmic; 1608861
Cosmic; 1752767
Cosmic; 2266792
Cosmic; 2513910
Cosmic; 2668291
IARC_TP53; 1913
LiGeA; CCLE_541
Progenetix; CVCL_1684
Proteomic databases PRIDE; PXD030304
Sequence databases EGA; EGAS00001000978
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number43