Cellosaurus cell line Mel Wei (CVCL

Cellosaurus Mel Wei (CVCL_3981)

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Cell line name	Mel Wei
Synonyms	MEL-WEI; Wei
Accession	CVCL_3981
Resource Identification Initiative	To cite this cell line use: Mel Wei (RRID:CVCL_3981)
Comments	Problematic cell line: Misidentified/contaminated. Shown to be identical to MEL-Ho. This cell line was reported to be isogenic with LCL-Wei (Cellosaurus=CVCL_1869) but it does not have the same STR profile (PubMed=10508494; PubMed=20143388). Registration: International Cell Line Authentication Committee, Register of Misidentified Cell Lines; ICLAC-00145. Population: Caucasian. Misspelling: ME-WEI; Note=Occasionally. Derived from site: In situ; Skin; UBERON=UBERON_0002097.
Disease	Melanoma (NCIt: C3224)
Species of origin	Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Originate from same individual	CVCL_1402 ! Mel Ho
Sex of cell	Female
Age at sampling	Age unspecified
Category	Cancer cell line
Web pages	Info; ICLAC; -; https://iclac.org/wp-content/uploads/Cross-Contaminations_v13_distribution.xlsx
Publications	PubMed=6895502; DOI=10.1002/eji.1830111015 Judith P. Johnson, Maria Demmer-Dieckmann, Tommaso Meo, Martin R. Hadam, Gert Riethmuller; Surface antigens of human melanoma cells defined by monoclonal antibodies. I. Biochemical characterization of two antigens found on cell lines and fresh tumors of diverse tissue origin. Eur. J. Immunol. 11:825-831(1981) PubMed=10508494; DOI=10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19991112)83:4<555::AID-IJC19>3.0.CO;2-2 Roderick A.F. MacLeod, Wilhelm Gerhard Dirks, Yoshinobu Matsuo, Maren Kaufmann, Herbert Milch, Hans Gunther Drexler; Widespread intraspecies cross-contamination of human tumor cell lines arising at source. Int. J. Cancer 83:555-563(1999) 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)
Anatomy/cell type resources	BTO; BTO_0001675
Biological sample resources	BioSample; SAMN03152033
Encyclopedic resources	Wikidata; Q54905066
Entry history
Entry creation	04-Apr-2012
Last entry update	14-Aug-2025
Version number	22