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Cellosaurus BL-2 (CVCL_1966)

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Cell line name BL-2
Synonyms BL2; BL 2; BL 02; BL02; BL 002; IARC/BL2; IARC/BL 02; IARC-BL2; IARC BL2; IARC-BL-2; IARC BL 2
Accession CVCL_1966
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: BL-2 (RRID:CVCL_1966)
Comments Part of: Cancer Dependency Map project (DepMap) (includes Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia - CCLE).
From: International Agency of Research on Cancer (IARC); Lyon; France.
Population: Caucasian; French.
Virology: EBV-negative.
Doubling time: ~24 hours (DSMZ=ACC-625).
Omics: Transcriptomics; RNAseq.
Derived from site: In situ; Bone marrow; UBERON=UBERON_0002371.
Cell type: B-cell; CL=CL_0000236.
Sequence variations
HLA typing Source: PubMed=25960936
Class I
HLA-AA*24:02,24:02
HLA-BB*08:01,39:06
HLA-CC*07:02,07:02
Class II
HLA-DQDQA1*01:01,05:01
DQB1*02:01,06:02
HLA-DRDRB1*03:01,14:01
Disease Burkitt lymphoma (NCIt: C2912)
Burkitt lymphoma (ORDO: Orphanet_543)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Originate from same individual CVCL_IV28 ! IARC-304
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling 7Y
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): DSMZ=ACC-625

Markers:
AmelogeninX,Y
CSF1PO11,13
D2S133820
D3S135815
D5S81812
D7S8208,12
D8S117913,15
D13S31711,12
D16S53912
D18S5112,21
D19S43312,15
D21S1129,31
FGA21,23
Penta D9,15
Penta E12
TH016
TPOX8,11
vWA15,16

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Publications

PubMed=6286514; DOI=10.1002/ijc.2910290609
Joelle Wiels, Gilbert Marcel Lenoir, Marc Fellous, Marc Lipinski, Jean-Claude Salomon, Cecile Tetaud, Thomas Tursz;
A monoclonal antibody with anti-Burkitt lymphoma specificity. I Analysis of human haematopoietic and lymphoid cell lines.
Int. J. Cancer 29:653-658(1982)

PubMed=6806672; DOI=10.1038/298474a0
Gilbert Marcel Lenoir, Jean-Louis Preud'homme, Alain Bernheim, Roland Berger;
Correlation between immunoglobulin light chain expression and variant translocation in Burkitt's lymphoma.
Nature 298:474-476(1982)

PubMed=6825067; DOI=10.1016/0165-4608(83)90138-3
Alain Bernheim, Roland Berger, Gilbert Marcel Lenoir;
Cytogenetic studies on Burkitt's lymphoma cell lines.
Cancer Genet. Cytogenet. 8:223-229(1983)

PubMed=6592381; DOI=10.1093/jnci/73.4.841
Marie-Christine Favrot, Irene Philip, Thierry Philip, Jacques Portoukalian, Jean-Francois Dore, Gilbert Marcel Lenoir;
Distinct reactivity of Burkitt's lymphoma cell lines with eight monoclonal antibodies correlated with the ethnic origin.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 73:841-847(1984)

PubMed=3004968; DOI=10.1002/j.1460-2075.1985.tb04140.x; PMCID=PMC554723
Dirk Eick, Marc Piechaczyk, Berthold Henglein, Jean-Marie Blanchard, Brigitte Traub, Edith Kofler, Sieglinde Wiest, Gilbert Marcel Lenoir, Georg-Wilhelm Bornkamm;
Aberrant c-myc RNAs of Burkitt's lymphoma cells have longer half-lives.
EMBO J. 4:3717-3725(1985)

PubMed=3905596
Marie-Christine Favrot, Irene Philip, Thierry Philip, Helene Cabrillat, Christiane Pinatel, Jean-Francois Dore, Gilbert Marcel Lenoir;
Immunophenotypic classification of 28 Burkitt cell lines with monoclonal antibodies and reagent selection for bone-marrow purging.
IARC Sci. Publ. 60:447-452(1985)

PubMed=3934070
Gilbert Marcel Lenoir, Michele Vuillaume, Colette Bonnardel;
The use of lymphomatous and lymphoblastoid cell lines in the study of Burkitt's lymphoma.
IARC Sci. Publ. 60:309-318(1985)

PubMed=2825176; DOI=10.1073/pnas.84.22.8060; PMCID=PMC299477
Alain Calender, Marc Billaud, Jean-Pierre Aubry, Jacques Banchereau, Michele Vuillaume, Gilbert Marcel Lenoir;
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) induces expression of B-cell activation markers on in vitro infection of EBV-negative B-lymphoma cells.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 84:8060-8064(1987)

PubMed=3026973; DOI=10.1002/ijc.2910390215
Barbro Ehlin-Henriksson, Agneta Manneborg-Sandlund, George Klein;
Expression of B-cell-specific markers in different Burkitt lymphoma subgroups.
Int. J. Cancer 39:211-218(1987)

PubMed=3027441; DOI=10.1093/jnci/78.2.235
Jacques H.M. Cohen, Jean-Pierre Revillard, Jean-Pierre Magaud, Gilbert Marcel Lenoir, Michele Vuillaume, Anne-Marie Manel, Claude Vincent, Paul-Andre Bryon;
B-cell maturation stages of Burkitt's lymphoma cell lines according to Epstein-Barr virus status and type of chromosome translocation.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 78:235-242(1987)

PubMed=3035497; DOI=10.1093/nar/15.11.4553; PMCID=PMC340879
Marie-France Szajnert, Simon Saule, Georg-Wilhelm Bornkamm, Henri Wajcman, Gilbert Marcel Lenoir, Jean-Claude Kaplan;
Clustered somatic mutations in and around first exon of non-rearranged c-myc in Burkitt lymphoma with t(8;22) translocation.
Nucleic Acids Res. 15:4553-4565(1987)

PubMed=1915267; DOI=10.1002/j.1460-2075.1991.tb07837.x; PMCID=PMC452998
Paul J. Farrell, Gordon J. Allan, Frances Shanahan, Karen Heather Vousden, Tim Crook;
p53 is frequently mutated in Burkitt's lymphoma cell lines.
EMBO J. 10:2879-2887(1991)

PubMed=2052620; DOI=10.1073/pnas.88.12.5413; PMCID=PMC51883
Gianluca Gaidano, Paola Ballerini, Jerry Z. Gong, Giorgio Inghirami, Antonino Neri, Elizabeth W. Newcomb, Ian Trevor Magrath, Daniel M. Knowles, Riccardo Dalla-Favera;
p53 mutations in human lymphoid malignancies: association with Burkitt lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 88:5413-5417(1991)

PubMed=1356511; DOI=10.1182/blood.V80.7.1781.1781
Gianluca Gaidano, Robert S. Hauptschein, Nasser Z. Parsa, Kenneth Offit, Pulivarthi H. Rao, Gilbert Marcel Lenoir, Daniel M. Knowles, Raju S.K. Chaganti, Riccardo Dalla-Favera;
Deletions involving two distinct regions of 6q in B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Blood 80:1781-1787(1992)

PubMed=8896424; DOI=10.1182/blood.V88.9.3562.bloodjournal8893562
Caroline J. Chapman, Jo X. Zhou, Christopher D. Gregory, Alan Bernard Rickinson, Freda K. Stevenson;
VH and VL gene analysis in sporadic Burkitt's lymphoma shows somatic hypermutation, intraclonal heterogeneity, and a role for antigen selection.
Blood 88:3562-3568(1996)

PubMed=9473234; DOI=10.1182/blood.V91.5.1680
Ulf Klangby, Ismail Okan, Kristinn Petur Magnusson, Martin Wendland, Peter Lind, Klas G. Wiman;
p16/INK4a and p15/INK4b gene methylation and absence of p16/INK4a mRNA and protein expression in Burkitt's lymphoma.
Blood 91:1680-1687(1998)

PubMed=11793449; DOI=10.1002/gcc.10022
Hagay Sobol, Athmane Benziane, Fabienne Kerangueven, Luo Yin, Tetsuro Noguchi, Suzanne Pauly, Francois Eisinger, Michel Longy, Giovanni Romeo, Gilbert Marcel Lenoir, Daniel Birnbaum;
Genome-wide search for loss of heterozygosity in Burkitt lymphoma cell lines.
Genes Chromosomes Cancer 33:217-224(2002)

PubMed=22885699; DOI=10.1038/nature11378; PMCID=PMC3609867
Roland Schmitz, Ryan M. Young, Michele Ceribelli, Sameer Jhavar, Wen-Ming Xiao, Mei-Li Zhang, George Wright, Arthur L. Shaffer 3rd, Daniel James Hodson, Eric Buras, Xue-Lu Liu ...Show all 42 authors... , John I. Powell, Yan-Dan Yang, Wei-Hong Xu, Hong Zhao, Holger Kohlhammer, Andreas Rosenwald, Philip M. Kluin, Hans-Konrad Muller-Hermelink, German Ott, Randy D. Gascoyne, Joseph M. Connors, Lisa M. Rimsza, Elias Campo, Elaine Sarkin Jaffe, Jan Delabie, Erlend Bremertun Smeland, Martin David Ogwang, Steven J. Reynolds, Richard I. Fisher, Rita Merle Braziel, Raymond Roy Tubbs, James R. Cook, Dennis D. Weisenburger, Wing-Chung Chan, Stefania Pittaluga, Wesley Wilson, Thomas Alexander Waldmann, Martin Rowe, Sam M. Mbulaiteye, Alan Bernard Rickinson, Louis Michael Staudt; Show fewer authors
Burkitt lymphoma pathogenesis and therapeutic targets from structural and functional genomics.
Nature 490:116-120(2012)

PubMed=24590883; DOI=10.1002/gcc.22161
Eva-Maria Murga Penas, Georgia Schilling, Petra Behrmann, Marianne Klokow, Eik Vettorazzi, Carsten Bokemeyer, Judith Dierlamm;
Comprehensive cytogenetic and molecular cytogenetic analysis of 44 Burkitt lymphoma cell lines: secondary chromosomal changes characterization, karyotypic evolution, and comparison with primary samples.
Genes Chromosomes Cancer 53:497-515(2014)

PubMed=25960936; DOI=10.4161/21624011.2014.954893; PMCID=PMC4355981
Sebastian Boegel, Martin Lower, Thomas Bukur, Ugur Sahin, John C. Castle;
A catalog of HLA type, HLA expression, and neo-epitope candidates in human cancer cell lines.
OncoImmunology 3:e954893.1-e954893.12(2014)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) DSMZ; ACC-625
Cell line databases/resources DepMap; ACH-001449
DSMZCellDive; ACC-625
Lonza; 110
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0002748
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN03473506
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54797121
Experimental variables resources EFO; EFO_0005475
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 931095
Cosmic; 2814531
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update14-Aug-2025
Version number33