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Cellosaurus WM39 (CVCL_2240)

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Cell line name WM39
Synonyms WM-39; WM 39; WC00077
Accession CVCL_2240
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: WM39 (RRID:CVCL_2240)
Comments Part of: Wistar Institute melanoma cell line collection.
Omics: Transcriptomics; Microarray.
Omics: Variations; SNP array analysis.
Caution: The reported STR profile from Wistar of this cell line was changed at one point between February 2016 when we retrieved them and entered them in Cellosaurus and May 2018. The major changes were: Amelogenin: X->X,Y.
Sequence variations
HLA typing Source: PubMed=15592718
Class I
HLA-AA*02:01,02:05
HLA-BB*07:02,15:03
HLA-CC*07:02,15:05
Class II
HLA-DPDPB1*04:02,02:01:02
HLA-DQDQB1*05:01,02:01
HLA-DRDRB1*01:01,07:01
Disease Melanoma (NCIt: C3224)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling Age unspecified
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): ATCC=CRL-2811; ESTDAB=ESTDAB-080; Wistar

Markers:
AmelogeninX,Y
CSF1PO10,11
D2S133817,19
D3S135818
D5S81811
D7S82014
D8S117913,15
D13S31710,12
D16S53912
D18S5112,16
D19S43315,16
D21S1130
FGA20,22
TH018,9.3
TPOX8,11
vWA17,18

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Web pages Info; Wistar; -; https://www.wistar.org/our-scientists/meenhard-herlyn
Publications

PubMed=4053039
Meenhard Herlyn, Jan Thurin, Gloria Brady Balaban-Malenbaum, Jeannette L. Bennicelli, Dorothee Herlyn, David E. Elder, Edward Bondi, DuPont Guerry 4th, Peter Carey Nowell, Wallace H. Clark Jr., Hilary Koprowski;
Characteristics of cultured human melanocytes isolated from different stages of tumor progression.
Cancer Res. 45:5670-5676(1985)

PubMed=2253310; DOI=10.1007/BF00046337
Meenhard Herlyn;
Human melanoma: development and progression.
Cancer Metastasis Rev. 9:101-112(1990)

PubMed=15592718; DOI=10.1007/s00262-004-0561-5; PMCID=PMC11032966
Teresa Rodriguez, Rosa Mendez, Chrissy H. Roberts, Francisco Ruiz-Cabello Osuna, I. Anthony Dodi, Miguel Angel Lopez-Nevot, Laura Paco, Isabel Maleno, Steven G.E. Marsh, Graham Pawelec, Federico Garrido;
High frequency of homozygosity of the HLA region in melanoma cell lines reveals a pattern compatible with extensive loss of heterozygosity.
Cancer Immunol. Immunother. 54:141-148(2005)

PubMed=16827748; DOI=10.1111/j.1600-0749.2006.00322.x
Keith S. Hoek, Natalie C. Schlegel, Patricia Brafford, Antje Sucker, Selma Ugurel, Rajiv Kumar, Barbara L. Weber, Katherine L. Nathanson, Donald J. Phillips, Meenhard Herlyn, Dirk Schadendorf, Reinhard Dummer;
Metastatic potential of melanomas defined by specific gene expression profiles with no BRAF signature.
Pigment Cell Res. 19:290-302(2006)

PubMed=18632627; DOI=10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-0235; PMCID=PMC2615688
Keiran S.M. Smalley, Rooha Contractor, Thiennga K. Nguyen, Min Xiao, Robin Edwards, Viswanathan Muthusamy, Alastair J. King, Keith Thomas Flaherty, Marcus W. Bosenberg, Meenhard Herlyn, Katherine L. Nathanson;
Identification of a novel subgroup of melanomas with KIT/cyclin-dependent kinase-4 overexpression.
Cancer Res. 68:5743-5752(2008)

PubMed=18790768; DOI=10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-08-0431; PMCID=PMC2651569
Keiran S.M. Smalley, Mercedes Lioni, Maurizia Dalla Palma, Min Xiao, Brijal Desai, Suzanne Egyhazi Brage, Johan Hansson, Hong Wu, Alastair J. King, Patricia Van Belle, David E. Elder ...Show all 14 authors... , Keith Thomas Flaherty, Meenhard Herlyn, Katherine L. Nathanson; Show fewer authors
Increased cyclin D1 expression can mediate BRAF inhibitor resistance in BRAF V600E-mutated melanomas.
Mol. Cancer Ther. 7:2876-2883(2008)

PubMed=21343389; DOI=10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-10-2958; PMCID=PMC3070783
Amy E. Rose, Laura Poliseno, Jin-Hua Wang, Michael Clark, Alexander Pearlman, Gui-Min Wang, Eleazar Carmelo Vega y Saenz de Miera, Ratna Medicherla, Paul J. Christos, Richard Shapiro, Anna Pavlick ...Show all 17 authors... , Farbod Darvishian, Jiri Zavadil, David Polsky, Eva Hernando, Harry Ostrer, Iman Osman; Show fewer authors
Integrative genomics identifies molecular alterations that challenge the linear model of melanoma progression.
Cancer Res. 71:2561-2571(2011)

PubMed=23851445; DOI=10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-13-0006
Christina Dahl, Claus Christensen, Goran Jonsson, Anders Lorentzen, Mette Louise Skjodt, Ake Borg, Graham Pawelec, Per Guldberg;
Mutual exclusivity analysis of genetic and epigenetic drivers in melanoma identifies a link between p14 ARF and RARbeta signaling.
Mol. Cancer Res. 11:1166-1178(2013)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) ATCC; CRL-2811 - Discontinued
Coriell; WC00077 - Discontinued
Rockland; WM39-01-0001
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0009618
cancercelllines; CVCL_2240
ESTDAB; ESTDAB-080
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN03471795
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54994301
Gene expression databases GEO; GSM109041
GEO; GSM186486
GEO; GSM186487
GEO; GSM186488
GEO; GSM555136
GEO; GSM555171
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 686399
Cosmic; 1155549
Cosmic; 1187580
Cosmic; 2159437
Cosmic; 2163807
Progenetix; CVCL_2240
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update14-Aug-2025
Version number30