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Cellosaurus WM88 (CVCL_6805)

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Cell line name WM88
Synonyms WM-88; WM 88; WC00123
Accession CVCL_6805
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: WM88 (RRID:CVCL_6805)
Comments Part of: Cancer Dependency Map project (DepMap) (includes Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia - CCLE).
Part of: Wistar Institute melanoma cell line collection.
Population: Caucasian.
Omics: Genomics; Whole exome sequencing.
Omics: Proteomics; Quantitative.
Omics: Transcriptomics; Microarray.
Omics: Transcriptomics; RNAseq.
Omics: Variations; SNP array analysis.
Caution: The reported STR profile from Wistar of this cell line was changed at one point between February 2016 when we retrieved them and entered them in Cellosaurus and May 2018. The major changes were: Amelogenin: X,Y->X.
Derived from site: Metastatic; Not specified.
Sequence variations
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:1097; BRAF; Simple; p.Val600Glu (c.1799T>A); ClinVar=VCV000013961; Zygosity=Heterozygous (PubMed=24576830; DepMap=ACH-000899; Wistar).
HLA typing Source: PubMed=26589293
Class I
HLA-AA*11:01,23:01
HLA-BB*35:01,44:03
HLA-CC*04:01,04:01
Class II
HLA-DQDQA1*01:02,01:02
DQB1*05:01,06:02
HLA-DRDRB1*01:01,15:01
Genome ancestry Source: PubMed=30894373

Origin% genome
African3.54
Native American0
East Asian, North3.99
East Asian, South0
South Asian0
European, North55.46
European, South37.01
Disease Melanoma (NCIt: C3224)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling Age unspecified
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): Wistar

Markers:
AmelogeninX
CSF1PO10
D2S133819
D3S135815
D5S81812,13
D7S8208,10
D8S117913,15
D13S31710,13
D16S53911,13
D18S5115,19
D19S43312,13
D21S1129,30
FGA20,21
TH019.3
TPOX12
vWA18

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Web pages Info; Wistar; -; https://www.wistar.org/our-scientists/meenhard-herlyn
Publications

PubMed=16827748; DOI=10.1111/j.1600-0749.2006.00322.x
Keith S. Hoek, Natalie C. Schlegel, Patricia Brafford, Antje Sucker, Selma Ugurel, Rajiv Kumar, Barbara L. Weber, Katherine L. Nathanson, Donald J. Phillips, Meenhard Herlyn, Dirk Schadendorf, Reinhard Dummer;
Metastatic potential of melanomas defined by specific gene expression profiles with no BRAF signature.
Pigment Cell Res. 19:290-302(2006)

PubMed=18632627; DOI=10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-0235; PMCID=PMC2615688
Keiran S.M. Smalley, Rooha Contractor, Thiennga K. Nguyen, Min Xiao, Robin Edwards, Viswanathan Muthusamy, Alastair J. King, Keith Thomas Flaherty, Marcus W. Bosenberg, Meenhard Herlyn, Katherine L. Nathanson;
Identification of a novel subgroup of melanomas with KIT/cyclin-dependent kinase-4 overexpression.
Cancer Res. 68:5743-5752(2008)

PubMed=22460905; DOI=10.1038/nature11003; PMCID=PMC3320027
Jordi Ginesta Barretina, Giordano Caponigro, Nicolas Stransky, Kavitha Venkatesan, Adam A. Margolin, Sungjoon Kim, Christopher J. Wilson, Joseph Lehar, Gregory V. Kryukov, Dmitriy Sonkin, Anupama Reddy ...Show all 61 authors... , Manway Liu, Lauren Murray, Michael F. Berger, John E. Monahan, Paula Morais, Jodi Meltzer, Adam Korejwa, Judit Jane-Valbuena, Felipa A. Mapa, Joseph Thibault, Eva Bric-Furlong, Pichai Raman, Aaron Shipway, Ingo H. Engels, Jill Cheng, Guo-Ying K. Yu, Jian-Jun Yu, Peter Aspesi Jr., Melanie de Silva, Kalpana Jagtap, Michael D. Jones, Li Wang, Charles Hatton, Emanuele Palescandolo, Supriya Gupta, Scott Mahan, Carrie Sougnez, Robert C. Onofrio, Ted Liefeld, Laura E. MacConaill, Wendy Winckler, Michael Reich, Nan-Xin Li, Jill P. Mesirov, Stacey B. Gabriel, Gad Getz, Kristin Ardlie, Vivien Chan, Vic E. Myer, Barbara L. Weber, Jeff Porter, Markus Warmuth, Peter Finan, Jennifer L. Harris, Matthew Langer Meyerson, Todd Robert Golub, Michael P. Morrissey, William Raj Sellers, Robert Schlegel, Levi Alexander Garraway; Show fewer authors
The Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia enables predictive modelling of anticancer drug sensitivity.
Nature 483:603-607(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)

PubMed=26589293; DOI=10.1186/s13073-015-0240-5; PMCID=PMC4653878
Jelle Scholtalbers, Sebastian Boegel, Thomas Bukur, Marius Byl, Sebastian Goerges, Patrick Sorn, Martin Loewer, Ugur Sahin, John C. Castle;
TCLP: an online cancer cell line catalogue integrating HLA type, predicted neo-epitopes, virus and gene expression.
Genome Med. 7:118.1-118.7(2015)

PubMed=30894373; DOI=10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-18-2747; PMCID=PMC6445675
Julie Dutil, Zhi-Hua Chen, Alvaro N.A. Monteiro, Jamie K. Teer, Steven A. Eschrich;
An interactive resource to probe genetic diversity and estimated ancestry in cancer cell lines.
Cancer Res. 79:1263-1273(2019)

PubMed=31068700; DOI=10.1038/s41586-019-1186-3; PMCID=PMC6697103
Mahmoud Ghandi, Franklin W. Huang, Judit Jane-Valbuena, Gregory V. Kryukov, Christopher C. Lo, E. Robert McDonald 3rd, Jordi Ginesta Barretina, Ellen T. Gelfand, Craig M. Bielski, Hao-Xin Li, Kevin Hu ...Show all 68 authors... , Alexander Y. Andreev-Drakhlin, Jaegil Kim, Julian M. Hess, Brian J. Haas, Francois Aguet, Barbara A. Weir, Michael V. Rothberg, Brenton R. Paolella, Michael Scott Lawrence, Rehan Akbani, Yi-Ling Lu, Hong L. Tiv, Prafulla C. Gokhale, Antoine de Weck, Ali Amin Mansour, Coyin Oh, Juliann Shih, Kevin Hadi, Yanay Rosen, Jonathan Bistline, Kavitha Venkatesan, Anupama Reddy, Dmitriy Sonkin, Manway Liu, Joseph Lehar, Joshua M. Korn, Dale A. Porter, Michael D. Jones, Javad Golji, Giordano Caponigro, Jordan E. Taylor, Caitlin M. Dunning, Amanda L. Creech, Allison C. Warren, James M. McFarland, Mahdi Zamanighomi, Audrey Kauffmann, Nicolas Stransky, Marcin Imielinski, Yosef E. Maruvka, Andrew D. Cherniack, Aviad Tsherniak, Francisca Vazquez, Jacob D. Jaffe, Andrew Alan Lane, David M. Weinstock, Cory M. Johannessen, Michael P. Morrissey, Frank Stegmeier, Robert Schlegel, William Chun Hahn, Gad Getz, Gordon B. Mills, Jesse S. Boehm, Todd Robert Golub, Levi Alexander Garraway, William Raj Sellers; Show fewer authors
Next-generation characterization of the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia.
Nature 569:503-508(2019)

PubMed=31978347; DOI=10.1016/j.cell.2019.12.023; PMCID=PMC7339254
David Paul Nusinow, John Szpyt, Mahmoud Ghandi, Christopher M. Rose, E. Robert McDonald 3rd, Marian Kalocsay, Judit Jane-Valbuena, Ellen T. Gelfand, Devin K. Schweppe, Mark P. Jedrychowski, Javad Golji ...Show all 20 authors... , Dale A. Porter, Tomas Rejtar, Y. Karen Wang, Gregory V. Kryukov, Frank Stegmeier, Brian K. Erickson, Levi Alexander Garraway, William Raj Sellers, Steven P. Gygi; Show fewer authors
Quantitative proteomics of the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia.
Cell 180:387-402.e16(2020)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) Coriell; WC00123 - Discontinued
Rockland; WM88-01-0001
Cell line databases/resources cancercelllines; CVCL_6805
Cell_Model_Passport; SIDM01768
DepMap; ACH-000899
SKY/M-FISH/CGH; 4948
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN10987992
Chemistry resources PharmacoDB; WM88_1665_2019
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54994333
Gene expression databases ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-2770
GEO; GSM109046
GEO; GSM188065
GEO; GSM188117
GEO; GSM188190
GEO; GSM188205
GEO; GSM188212
GEO; GSM188236
GEO; GSM188266
GEO; GSM188281
GEO; GSM188290
GEO; GSM188325
GEO; GSM887739
GEO; GSM888834
GEO; GSM952589
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 1155563
Cosmic; 1303080
Cosmic; 1669265
IARC_TP53; 30189
LiGeA; CCLE_583
Progenetix; CVCL_6805
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update14-Aug-2025
Version number34