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Cellosaurus SK-MEL-61 (CVCL_6044)

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Cell line name SK-MEL-61
Synonyms SK-Mel-61; CL-Mel
Accession CVCL_6044
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: SK-MEL-61 (RRID:CVCL_6044)
Comments From: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; New York; USA.
Sequence variations
  • Gene deletion; HGNC; HGNC:1788; CDKN2B; Zygosity=Heterozygous (PubMed=9598804).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:1787; CDKN2A; Simple; p.Gly89Ser (c.265G>A) (p.Gly103Glu, c.308G>A); ClinVar=VCV000009408; Zygosity=Unspecified (PubMed=9598804).
Disease Melanoma (NCIt: C3224)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Sex of cell Sex unspecified
Age at sampling Age unspecified
Category Cancer cell line
Publications

PubMed=6933476; DOI=10.1073/pnas.77.7.4260; PMCID=PMC349812
Alan N. Houghton, Michael C. Taormina, Hisami Ikeda, Tadashi Watanabe, Herbert Friedrich Oettgen, Lloyd John Old;
Serological survey of normal humans for natural antibody to cell surface antigens of melanoma.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 77:4260-4264(1980)

DOI=10.1007/978-1-4615-7228-2_39
Alan N. Houghton, Herbert Friedrich Oettgen, Lloyd John Old;
Malignant melanoma. Current status of the search for melanoma-specific antigens.
(In book chapter) Immunodermatology. Comprehensive Immunology, Vol 7; Safai, Bijan & Good, Robert Alan (eds.); pp.557-576; Springer; Boston; USA (1981)

PubMed=2983346; DOI=10.1073/pnas.82.5.1470; PMCID=PMC397284
Nicholas C. Dracopoli, Alan N. Houghton, Lloyd John Old;
Loss of polymorphic restriction fragments in malignant melanoma: implications for tumor heterogeneity.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 82:1470-1474(1985)

PubMed=9598804; DOI=10.1002/(SICI)1098-2264(199806)22:2<157::AID-GCC11>3.0.CO;2-N
Graeme J. Walker, Jose F. Flores, J. Michael Glendening, Amy Hsiu-Ti Lin, Isabel D.C. Markl, Jane W. Fountain;
Virtually 100% of melanoma cell lines harbor alterations at the DNA level within CDKN2A, CDKN2B, or one of their downstream targets.
Genes Chromosomes Cancer 22:157-163(1998)

Cross-references
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54954277
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 721836
Cosmic; 923388
Cosmic; 933129
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update14-Aug-2025
Version number15