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Cellosaurus Bhas42 (CVCL_5494)

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Cell line name Bhas42
Synonyms Bhas 42
Accession CVCL_5494
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: Bhas42 (RRID:CVCL_5494)
Comments Problematic cell line: Misidentified/contaminated. Not from strain BALB/c as originally assigned but from a NIH Swiss strain derivative (PubMed=27844419).
Registration: International Cell Line Authentication Committee, Register of Misidentified Cell Lines; ICLAC-00530.
Biotechnology: Part of the 'Bhas 42 cell transformation assay' which is a sensitive short-term system for predicting chemical carcinogenicity (PubMed=21801851).
Genetic integration: Method=Transfection/transduction; Gene=UniProtKB; P01115; Harvey murine sarcoma virus H-Ras (V-Ha-ras).
Genetic integration: Method=Transfection/transduction; Gene=UniProtKB; P00552; Klebsiella pneumoniae transposon Tn5 neo.
Transformant: v-Ha-Ras.
Species of origin Mus musculus (Mouse) (NCBI Taxonomy: 10090)
Breed/subspecies: Swiss albino.
Hierarchy Parent: CVCL_J646 (BALB/3T3 A31-1-1)
Category Transformed cell line
Web pages Info; ICLAC; -; https://iclac.org/wp-content/uploads/Cross-Contaminations_v13_distribution.xlsx
Publications

PubMed=3141328; DOI=10.1111/j.1349-7006.1988.tb00056.x; PMCID=PMC5917616
Kiyoshi Sasaki, Hiroshi Mizusawa, Motoi Ishidate;
Isolation and characterization of ras-transfected BALB/3T3 clone showing morphological transformation by 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate.
Jpn. J. Cancer Res. 79:921-930(1988)

PubMed=21801851; DOI=10.1016/j.mrgentox.2011.07.006
Ayako Sakai, Kiyoshi Sasaki, Kumiko Hayashi, Dai Muramatsu, Shoko Arai, Nobuko Endou, Sachiko Kuroda, Albrecht Poth, Susanne Bohnenberger, Thorsten Kunkelmann, Masumi Asakura ...Show all 22 authors... , Hideki Hirose, Nana Ishii, Fukutaro Mizuhashi, Sawako Kasamoto, Miho Nagai, Kamala Pant, Shannon W. Bruce, Jamie E. Sly, Shojiro Yamazaki, Makoto Umeda, Noriho Tanaka; Show fewer authors
An international validation study of a Bhas 42 cell transformation assay for the prediction of chemical carcinogenicity.
Mutat. Res. 725:57-77(2011)

PubMed=27844419; DOI=10.1007/s11626-016-0104-3; PMCID=PMC5348555
Kozue Uchio-Yamada, Fumio Kasai, Midori Ozawa, Arihiro Kohara;
Incorrect strain information for mouse cell lines: sequential influence of misidentification on sublines.
In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. Anim. 53:225-230(2017)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) JCRB; JCRB0149
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54796337
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update14-Aug-2025
Version number16