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Cellosaurus BGM (CVCL_4125)

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Cell line name BGM
Synonyms Buffalo Green Monkey cells; BGMK; Buffalo Green Monkey Kidney cells
Accession CVCL_4125
Secondary accession CVCL_4789
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: BGM (RRID:CVCL_4125)
Comments Group: Non-human primate cell line.
Virology: Susceptible to infection by SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) (PubMed=16494729).
Virology: Susceptible to infection by SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (COVID-19) (PubMed=33389257).
Caution: Assignment to Chlorocebus pygerythrus instead of Chlorocebus aethiops by PubMed=34737324.
Derived from site: In situ; Kidney; UBERON=UBERON_0002113.
Species of origin Chlorocebus pygerythrus (Vervet monkey) (Cercopithecus pygerythrus) (NCBI Taxonomy: 60710)
Sex of cell Male
Category Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Web pages Info; ATCC; -; https://www.atcc.org/en/support/technical-support/faqs/buffalo-green-monkey-kidney-bgmk-cells
Provider; Vircell; -; https://www.vircell.com/en/products/bgm-cell-line
Publications

PubMed=4993582; DOI=10.1007/BF01250067
Almen L. Barron, Catherine Olshevsky, Maimon Moses Cohen;
Characteristics of the BGM line of cells from African green monkey kidney. Brief report.
Arch. Gesamte Virusforsch. 32:389-392(1970)

PubMed=3010860; DOI=10.1128/AEM.51.4.790-812.1986; PMCID=PMC238965
Daniel R. Dahling, Betty A. Wright;
Optimization of the BGM cell line culture and viral assay procedures for monitoring viruses in the environment.
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 51:790-812(1986)

PubMed=16494729; DOI=10.3201/eid1201.050496; PMCID=PMC3291385
Matthew Kaye, Julian Druce, Thomas Tran, Renata Kostecki, Doris Chibo, Jessica Morris, Mike Catton, Chris Birch;
SARS-associated coronavirus replication in cell lines.
Emerg. Infect. Dis. 12:128-133(2006)

PubMed=28046048; DOI=10.1371/journal.pone.0169391; PMCID=PMC5207746
Silvia Dotti, Tina Lombardo, Riccardo Villa, Andrea Cacciamali, Cinzia Zanotti, Nadia Andrea Andreani, Stefano Cinotti, Maura Ferrari;
Transformation and tumorigenicity testing of simian cell lines and evaluation of poliovirus replication.
PLoS ONE 12:e0169391.1-e0169391.13(2017)

PubMed=33389257; DOI=10.1007/s10096-020-04106-0; PMCID=PMC7778494
Nathalie Wurtz, Gwilherm Penant, Priscilla Jardot, Nathalie Duclos, Bernard La Scola;
Culture of SARS-CoV-2 in a panel of laboratory cell lines, permissivity, and differences in growth profile.
Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 40:477-484(2021)

PubMed=34737324; DOI=10.1038/s41598-021-00779-5; PMCID=PMC8569163
Oliver Lung, Rebecca C. Candlish, Michelle Nebroski, Peter Kruckiewicz, Cody Buchanan, Mariko Moniwa;
High-throughput sequencing for species authentication and contamination detection of 63 cell lines.
Sci. Rep. 11:21657.1-21657.9(2021)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) BCRJ; 0049 - Discontinued
BCRJ; 0313
CCLV; CCLV-RIE 0136
CLS; 302158
ECACC; 90092601
IZSLER; BS CL 7
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0001955
CLDB; cl432
CLDB; cl433
CLDB; cl435
CLDB; cl436
CLDB; cl437
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54796277
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number24