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Cellosaurus Tera-2 (CVCL_2777)

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Cell line name Tera-2
Synonyms TERA-2; Tera 2; Tera II
Accession CVCL_2777
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: Tera-2 (RRID:CVCL_2777)
Comments Part of: Cancer Dependency Map project (DepMap) (includes Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia - CCLE).
From: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; New York; USA.
Population: Caucasian.
Derived from site: Metastatic; Lung; UBERON=UBERON_0002048.
Disease Embryonal carcinoma (NCIt: C3752)
Embryonal carcinoma (ORDO: Orphanet_180226)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Children:
CVCL_0034 (NTERA-2)CVCL_XI45 (Tera-2_CDDP)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling 22Y
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): ATCC=HTB-106

Markers:
AmelogeninX,Y
CSF1PO10,12
D2S133822,25
D3S135816
D5S8189,12
D7S82010,12
D8S117913,15
D13S31713
D16S53911,12,13
D18S5114
D19S43314,15.2
D21S1130,31
FGA23
Penta D12,13
Penta E5,14
TH019.3
TPOX8
vWA18,19

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Publications

DOI=10.1007/978-1-4757-1647-4_5
Jorgen Fogh, Germain L. Trempe;
New human tumor cell lines.
(In book chapter) Human tumor cells in vitro; Fogh, Jorgen (eds.); pp.115-159; Springer; New York; USA (1975)

PubMed=833871; DOI=10.1093/jnci/58.2.209
Jorgen Fogh, William C. Wright, James D. Loveless;
Absence of HeLa cell contamination in 169 cell lines derived from human tumors.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 58:209-214(1977)

PubMed=571047
Jorgen Fogh;
Cultivation, characterization, and identification of human tumor cells with emphasis on kidney, testis, and bladder tumors.
Natl. Cancer Inst. Monogr. 49:5-9(1978)

PubMed=6169654; DOI=10.1002/ijc.2910260304
Peter W. Andrews, David Leigh Bronson, Frances J. Benham, Sidney Strickland, Barbara B. Knowles;
A comparative study of eight cell lines derived from human testicular teratocarcinoma.
Int. J. Cancer 26:269-280(1980)

PubMed=6244232
Richard D. Williams;
Human urologic cancer cell lines.
Invest. Urol. 17:359-363(1980)

PubMed=6935474; DOI=10.1093/jnci/66.2.239
William C. Wright, Walter P. Daniels, Jorgen Fogh;
Distinction of seventy-one cultured human tumor cell lines by polymorphic enzyme analysis.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 66:239-247(1981)

PubMed=6202829; DOI=10.1099/0022-1317-65-5-887
Roswitha Lower, Johannes Lower, Hermann Frank, Rolf Harzmann, Reinhard Kurth;
Human teratocarcinomas cultured in vitro produce unique retrovirus-like viruses.
J. Gen. Virol. 65:887-898(1984)

PubMed=6694356
Peter W. Andrews, Ivan Damjanov, Daniela Simon, George Spencer Banting, Cathleen R. Carlin, Nicholas C. Dracopoli, Jorgen Fogh;
Pluripotent embryonal carcinoma clones derived from the human teratocarcinoma cell line Tera-2. Differentiation in vivo and in vitro.
Lab. Invest. 50:147-162(1984)

PubMed=3518877; DOI=10.3109/07357908609038260
Jorgen Fogh;
Human tumor lines for cancer research.
Cancer Invest. 4:157-184(1986)

PubMed=3293662; DOI=10.1016/0304-419X(88)90003-0
Peter W. Andrews;
Human teratocarcinomas.
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 948:17-36(1988)

PubMed=31500094; DOI=10.3390/cancers11091316; PMCID=PMC6769617
Violeta Bakardjieva-Mihaylova, Karolina Skvarova Kramarzova, Martina Slamova, Michael Svaton, Katerina Rejlova, Marketa Zaliova, Alena Dobiasova, Karel Fiser, Jan Stuchly, Marek Grega, Blanka Rosova ...Show all 18 authors... , Roman Zachoval, Petr Klezl, Vaclav Eis, Eva Kindlova, Tomas Buchler, Jan Trka, Ludmila Boublikova; Show fewer authors
Molecular basis of cisplatin resistance in testicular germ cell tumors.
Cancers (Basel) 11:1316.1-1316.18(2019)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) ATCC; HTB-106
CancerTools; 161909
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0009324
Cell_Model_Passport; SIDM01142
DepMap; ACH-001672
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0002573
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q28248633
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 971770
Cosmic; 2816211
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number25