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Cellosaurus WTK-1 (CVCL_6742)

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Cell line name WTK-1
Synonyms WTK1
Accession CVCL_6742
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: WTK-1 (RRID:CVCL_6742)
Comments Group: Space-flown cell line (cellonaut).
Population: Caucasian.
Doubling time: 12.7 hours (PubMed=7744731).
Transformant: NCBI_TaxID; 10376; Epstein-Barr virus (EBV).
Transformant: ChEBI; CHEBI_132982; Acridine half-mustard dihydrochloride (6-chloro-9-[3-(2-chloroethylamino)propylamino]-2-methoxyacridine dihydrochloride; Acridine mutagen ICR 191).
Omics: Transcriptomics; RNAseq.
Anecdotal: Have been flown in space on the ISS in 2008-2009 to study the biological effects of space radiations, microgravity and the space environment on the expression of TP53-regulated genes (PubMed=20673130).
Derived from site: In situ; Spleen; UBERON=UBERON_0002106.
Cell type: B-cell; CL=CL_0000236.
Sequence variations
Disease Hereditary spherocytosis (NCIt: C97074)
Hereditary spherocytosis (ORDO: Orphanet_822)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Parent: CVCL_2761 (WIL2 NS)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling 5Y
Category Transformed cell line
Publications

PubMed=7744731; DOI=10.1074/jbc.270.19.11033
John Bertram Little, Hatsumi Nagasawa, Peter C. Keng, Yong-Jia Yu, Chuan-Yuan Li;
Absence of radiation-induced G1 arrest in two closely related human lymphoblast cell lines that differ in p53 status.
J. Biol. Chem. 270:11033-11036(1995)

PubMed=10397247
Yao-Yu Eric Chuang, Qi Chen, Joseph P. Brown, John Michael Sedivy, Howard L. Liber;
Radiation-induced mutations at the autosomal thymidine kinase locus are not elevated in p53-null cells.
Cancer Res. 59:3073-3076(1999)

PubMed=11221843
Claudia Wiese, Stacey S. Gauny, Wei-Chung Liu, Corinne L. Cherbonnel-Lasserre, Amy Kronenberg;
Different mechanisms of radiation-induced loss of heterozygosity in two human lymphoid cell lines from a single donor.
Cancer Res. 61:1129-1137(2001)

PubMed=11566342; DOI=10.1016/S0165-4608(01)00440-X
Jeffrey L. Schwartz, Robert Jordan, Helen Harrington Evans;
Characteristics of chromosome instability in the human lymphoblast cell line WTK1.
Cancer Genet. Cytogenet. 129:124-130(2001)

PubMed=20673130; DOI=10.3109/09553001003789596
Akihisa Takahashi, Hiromi Suzuki, Katsunori Omori, Masaya Seki, Toko Hashizume, Toru Shimazu, Noriaki Ishioka, Takeo Ohnishi;
The expression of p53-regulated genes in human cultured lymphoblastoid TSCE5 and WTK1 cell lines during spaceflight.
Int. J. Radiat. Biol. 86:669-681(2010)

PubMed=22525470; DOI=10.18926/AMO/48262
Hiroaki Oka, Mamoru Ouchida, Takuya Kondo, Fumio Morita, Kenji Shimizu;
Different responses to 5-fluoraouracil in mutagenicity and gene expression between two human lymphoblastoid cell lines with or without TP53 mutation.
Acta Med. Okayama 66:119-129(2012)

PubMed=26774668; DOI=10.1016/j.mrgentox.2015.11.006
Javier Revollo, Dayton M. Petibone, Page McKinzie, Bridgett Knox, Suzanne M. Morris, Bai-Tang Ning, Vasily N. Dobrovolsky;
Whole genome and normalized mRNA sequencing reveal genetic status of TK6, WTK1, and NH32 human B-lymphoblastoid cell lines.
Mutat. Res. Genet. Toxicol. Environ. Mutagen. 795:60-69(2016)

Cross-references
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0003706
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54994556
Polymorphism and mutation databases IARC_TP53; 15513
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number19