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Cellosaurus SK-MEL-188 (CVCL_6098)

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Cell line name SK-MEL-188
Synonyms SK-Mel-188; SKMEL-188; SKMEL188
Accession CVCL_6098
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: SK-MEL-188 (RRID:CVCL_6098)
Comments From: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; New York; USA.
Characteristics: Pigmented.
Sequence variations
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=7509835; DOI=10.1111/1523-1747.ep12371784
Brigitte Bouchard, Setaluri Vijayasaradhi, Alan N. Houghton;
Production and characterization of antibodies against human tyrosinase.
J. Invest. Dermatol. 102:291-295(1994)

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)

PubMed=10614864; DOI=10.1007/s11626-999-0093-6
Andrzej Tadeusz Slominski, Gennady Ermak, Jacobo Wortsman;
Modification of melanogenesis in cultured human melanoma cells.
In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. Anim. 35:564-565(1999)

PubMed=21725359; DOI=10.1038/onc.2011.250; PMCID=PMC3267014
Feng Xing, Yogindra Persaud, Christine A. Pratilas, Barry Stephen Taylor, Manickam Janakiraman, Qing-Bai She, Humilidad F. Gallardo, C. Liu, Taha Merghoub, Blake E. Hefter, Igor Dolgalev ...Show all 19 authors... , Agnes J. Viale, Adriana Heguy, Elisa de Stanchina, David Cobrinik, Gideon Bollag, Jedd D. Wolchok, Alan N. Houghton, David B. Solit; Show fewer authors
Concurrent loss of the PTEN and RB1 tumor suppressors attenuates RAF dependence in melanomas harboring (V600E)BRAF.
Oncogene 31:446-457(2012)

PubMed=24576830; DOI=10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-13-2625; PMCID=PMC4005042
Moriah Heller Nissan, Christine A. Pratilas, Alexis M. Jones, Ricardo Ramirez, Helen Won, Cai-Lian Liu, Shakuntala Tiwari, Li Kong, Aphrothiti J. Hanrahan, Zhan Yao, Taha Merghoub ...Show all 19 authors... , Antoni Ribas, Paul B. Chapman, Rona D. Yaeger, Barry Stephen Taylor, Nikolaus Schultz, Michael F. Berger, Neal Rosen, David B. Solit; Show fewer authors
Loss of NF1 in cutaneous melanoma is associated with RAS activation and MEK dependence.
Cancer Res. 74:2340-2350(2014)

Cross-references
Cell line databases/resources cancercelllines; CVCL_6098
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54953893
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 933116
Cosmic; 1669186
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update14-Aug-2025
Version number21