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Cellosaurus U-251MG sp (CVCL_5G56)

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Cell line name U-251MG sp
Synonyms U-251 MG sp; U-251 MGsp; U-251SP
Accession CVCL_5G56
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: U-251MG sp (RRID:CVCL_5G56)
Comments Population: Caucasian.
Characteristics: Spindle cell variant obtained by differential trypsinization of parent cell line.
Derived from site: In situ; Brain, parietal lobe; UBERON=UBERON_0001872.
Sequence variations
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:9588; PTEN; Simple; p.Glu242Valfs*15 (c.723_724dupTG); ClinVar=VCV000536553; Zygosity=Unspecified (from parent cell line).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:11730; TERT; Simple; c.1-124C>T (c.228C>T) (C228T); Zygosity=Unspecified; Note=In promoter (from parent cell line).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:11998; TP53; Simple; p.Arg273His (c.818G>A); ClinVar=VCV000012366; Zygosity=Unspecified (from parent cell line).
Disease Astrocytoma (NCIt: C60781)
Astrocytoma (ORDO: Orphanet_94)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Parent: CVCL_0021 (U-251MG)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling 75Y
Category Cancer cell line
Publications

PubMed=6260907; DOI=10.1097/00005072-198105000-00001
Darell Doty Bigner, Sandra H. Bigner, Jan Ponten, Bengt Westermark, Moses Stephen Mahaley Jr., Erkki Ruoslahti, Harvey R. Herschman, Lawrence F. Eng, Carol J. Wikstrand;
Heterogeneity of genotypic and phenotypic characteristics of fifteen permanent cell lines derived from human gliomas.
J. Neuropathol. Exp. Neurol. 40:201-229(1981)

PubMed=3675803
Sandra H. Bigner, Rolf Bjerkvig, Ole Didrik Laerum, Laurence H. Muhlbaier, Darell Doty Bigner;
DNA content and chromosomes in permanent cultured cell lines derived from malignant human gliomas.
Anal. Quant. Cytol. Histol. 9:435-444(1987)

PubMed=2454731
Monica Nister, Towia Aron Libermann, Christer Betsholtz, Monica Pettersson, Lena Claesson-Welsh, Carl-Henrik Heldin, Joseph Schlessinger, Bengt Westermark;
Expression of messenger RNAs for platelet-derived growth factor and transforming growth factor-alpha and their receptors in human malignant glioma cell lines.
Cancer Res. 48:3910-3918(1988)

PubMed=1847665
Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Monica Nister, Christer Betsholtz, Jia-Lun Wang, Goran Stenman, Kay Huebner, Carlo Maria Croce, Bengt Westermark;
Human glial fibrillary acidic protein: complementary DNA cloning, chromosome localization, and messenger RNA expression in human glioma cell lines of various phenotypes.
Cancer Res. 51:1553-1560(1991)

DOI=10.1016/B978-0-12-333530-2.50005-8
Monica Nister, Bengt Westermark;
Human glioma cell lines.
(In book chapter) Atlas of human tumor cell lines; Hay, Robert J. & Park, Jae-Gahb & Gazdar, Adi F. (eds.); pp.17-42; Academic Press; New York; USA (1994)

Cross-references
Cell line databases/resources cancercelllines; CVCL_5G56
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0005865
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54973555
Entry history
Entry creation14-Dec-2015
Last entry update19-Dec-2024
Version number16