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Cellosaurus MaTu (CVCL_5328)

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Cell line name MaTu
Synonyms MATU; BrCL20
Accession CVCL_5328
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: MaTu (RRID:CVCL_5328)
Comments Problematic cell line: Contaminated. Shown to be a HeLa derivative (PubMed=10508494; PubMed=20143388). Originally thought to originate from a breast carcinoma.
Registration: International Cell Line Authentication Committee, Register of Misidentified Cell Lines; ICLAC-00142.
Population: African American.
Microsatellite instability: Stable (MSS) (PubMed=15677628).
Transformant: NCBI_TaxID; 333761; Human papillomavirus type 18 (HPV18).
Derived from site: In situ; Uterus, cervix; UBERON=UBERON_0000002.
Sequence variations
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:3373; EP300; Simple; c.4790del138 (Ex20-21del); Zygosity=Heterozygous (PubMed=10700188).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:3373; EP300; Simple; c.5061+2T>A; Zygosity=Heterozygous; Note=Splice donor mutation (PubMed=10700188).
Disease Human papillomavirus-related endocervical adenocarcinoma (NCIt: C27677)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Parent: CVCL_0030 (HeLa)
Children:
CVCL_5329 (MaTu/Ham)
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling 30Y6M
Category Cancer cell line
Web pages Info; ICLAC; -; https://iclac.org/wp-content/uploads/Cross-Contaminations_v13_distribution.xlsx
Publications

PubMed=212193
Linda W. Engel, Nathaniel A. Young;
Human breast carcinoma cells in continuous culture: a review.
Cancer Res. 38:4327-4339(1978)

PubMed=9150904; DOI=10.1023/A:1005756632293
Richard J. Hambly, John A. Double, Michael J. Thompson, Michael C. Bibby;
Establishment and characterisation of new cell lines from human breast tumours initially established as tumour xenografts in NMRI nude mice.
Breast Cancer Res. Treat. 43:247-258(1997)

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=10700188; DOI=10.1038/73536
Simon Andrew Gayther, Sarah J. Batley, Lori Linger, Andrew J. Bannister, Karen Thorpe, Suet-Feung Chin, Yataro Daigo, Paul Russell, Annie Wilson, Heidi M. Sowter, Joy Dorothy Ann Delhanty ...Show all 14 authors... , Bruce Anthony John Ponder, Tony Kouzarides, Carlos Caldas; Show fewer authors
Mutations truncating the EP300 acetylase in human cancers.
Nat. Genet. 24:300-303(2000)

PubMed=15677628; DOI=10.1093/carcin/bgi032
Kylie Louise Gorringe, Suet-Feung Chin, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Joanne M. Staines, Carla Oliveira, Paul A.W. Edwards, Carlos Caldas;
Evidence that both genetic instability and selection contribute to the accumulation of chromosome alterations in cancer.
Carcinogenesis 26:923-930(2005)

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)

Cross-references
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN03151742
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54904065
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 1523956
Cosmic; 1523973
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number28