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Cellosaurus AV3 (CVCL_1904)

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Cell line name AV3
Synonyms AV 3; AV-3
Accession CVCL_1904
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: AV3 (RRID:CVCL_1904)
Comments Problematic cell line: Contaminated. Shown to be a HeLa derivative (PubMed=4864103; PubMed=5641128; PubMed=1246601; PubMed=20143388). Originally thought to originate from a normal amnion.
Registration: International Cell Line Authentication Committee, Register of Misidentified Cell Lines; ICLAC-00001.
Population: African American.
Transformant: NCBI_TaxID; 333761; Human papillomavirus type 18 (HPV18).
Omics: Genomics; Whole genome sequencing; Low read coverage.
Derived from site: In situ; Uterus, cervix; UBERON=UBERON_0000002.
Disease Human papillomavirus-related endocervical adenocarcinoma (NCIt: C27677)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Parent: CVCL_0030 (HeLa)
Children:
CVCL_A5VW (F-49-1)
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling 30Y6M
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): ATCC=CCL-21; ECACC=88102402; IZSLER=BS CL 3

Markers:
AmelogeninX
CSF1PO9,10
D2S133817
D3S135815,18
D5S81811,12
D7S82012
D8S117912,13
D13S31713.3 (ATCC=CCL-21)
14 (ECACC=88102402; IZSLER=BS CL 3)
D16S5399,10
D18S5115,16
D19S43313,14
D21S1127,28
FGA18,21
Penta D8,15
Penta E7,17
TH017
TPOX8,12
vWA16,18

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

PubMed=14185313; DOI=10.1126/science.146.3641.241
Cell Culture Collection Committee
Animal cell strains. The Cell Culture Collection Committee has assembled and certified 23 strains of animal cells.
Science 146:241-243(1964)

PubMed=4864103
Stanley Michael Gartler;
Genetic markers as tracers in cell culture.
Natl. Cancer Inst. Monogr. 26:167-195(1967)

PubMed=5641128; DOI=10.1038/217750a0
Stanley Michael Gartler;
Apparent Hela cell contamination of human heteroploid cell lines.
Nature 217:750-751(1968)

PubMed=5668122; DOI=10.3181/00379727-128-33119
Ward Davis Peterson Jr., Cyril S. Stulberg, N.K. Swanborg, Andria Rasile Robinson;
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase isoenzymes in human cell cultures determined by sucrose-agar gel and cellulose acetate zymograms.
Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. 128:772-776(1968)

DOI=10.1007/BF02618370
Cyril S. Stulberg, Lewis Lemon Coriell, Alexis John Kniazeff, John E. Shannon;
The animal cell culture collection.
In Vitro 5:1-16(1970)

PubMed=1246601; DOI=10.1126/science.1246601
Walter Anthony Nelson-Rees, Robert R. Flandermeyer;
HeLa cultures defined.
Science 191:96-98(1976)

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=23925245; DOI=10.1038/nature12064; PMCID=PMC3740412
Andrew C. Adey, Joshua N. Burton, Jacob O. Kitzman, Joseph B. Hiatt, Alexandra P. Lewis, Beth K. Martin, Ruo-Lan Qiu, Choli Lee, Jay Shendure;
The haplotype-resolved genome and epigenome of the aneuploid HeLa cancer cell line.
Nature 500:207-211(2013)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) ATCC; CCL-21
ECACC; 88102402
IZSLER; BS CL 3
KCLB; 10021 - Discontinued
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0001771
CLO; CLO_0001772
CLO; CLO_0001773
CLDB; cl298
CLDB; cl299
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN03151665
BioSample; SAMN03471470
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54751895
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number28