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Cellosaurus WM983B (CVCL_6809)

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Cell line name WM983B
Synonyms WM-983B; WM 983B; WM983-B; WM-983/B; WC00066
Accession CVCL_6809
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: WM983B (RRID:CVCL_6809)
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: 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: deletion of D18S51: 14.
Derived from site: Metastatic; Inguinal lymph node; UBERON=UBERON_0001542.
Sequence variations
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:1097; BRAF; Simple; p.Val600Glu (c.1799T>A); ClinVar=VCV000013961; Zygosity=Heterozygous (PubMed=16827748; PubMed=18632627; PubMed=21156289; DepMap=ACH-000765; Wistar).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:11998; TP53; Simple; p.Pro278Phe (c.832_833CC>TT); Zygosity=Homozygous (DepMap=ACH-000765).
HLA typing Source: PubMed=26589293
Class I
HLA-AA*01:01,29:02
HLA-BB*14:02,37:01
HLA-CC*06:02,08:02
Genome ancestry Source: PubMed=30894373

Origin% genome
African2.75
Native American0
East Asian, North5.11
East Asian, South0
South Asian5.18
European, North22.68
European, South64.28
Disease Melanoma (NCIt: C3224)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Children:
CVCL_AP81 (WM983B-BR)
Originate from same individual CVCL_6808 ! WM983A
CVCL_A338 ! WM983C
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling 54Y
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): Wistar

Markers:
AmelogeninX,Y
CSF1PO11
D2S133825,27
D3S135817
D5S81811
D7S82011
D8S11798,13
D13S31712
D16S53911,12
D19S43310,14
D21S1129,31.2
FGA20,23
TH016
TPOX11
vWA17

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

PubMed=2253310; DOI=10.1007/BF00046337
Meenhard Herlyn;
Human melanoma: development and progression.
Cancer Metastasis Rev. 9:101-112(1990)

PubMed=2068080; DOI=10.1073/pnas.88.14.6028; PMCID=PMC52015
Isabelle Cornil, Dan Theodorescu, Shan Man, Meenhard Herlyn, Jadranka Adriana Jambrosic, Robert S. Kerbel;
Fibroblast cell interactions with human melanoma cells affect tumor cell growth as a function of tumor progression.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 88:6028-6032(1991)

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=21156289; DOI=10.1016/j.ccr.2010.11.023; PMCID=PMC3026446
Jessie Villanueva, Adina Vultur, John T. Lee, Rajasekharan Somasundaram, Mizuho Fukunaga-Kalabis, Angela K. Cipolla, Bradley Wubbenhorst, Xiao-Wei Xu, Phyllis A. Gimotty, Damien Kee, Ademi Elena Santiago-Walker, Richard Letrero, Kurt D'Andrea ...Show all 21 authors... , Anitha Pushparajan, James E. Hayden, Kimberly Brown Dahlman, Sylvie G. Laquerre, Grant A. McArthur, Jeffrey A. Sosman, Katherine L. Nathanson, Meenhard Herlyn; Show fewer authors
Acquired resistance to BRAF inhibitors mediated by a RAF kinase switch in melanoma can be overcome by cotargeting MEK and IGF-1R/PI3K.
Cancer Cell 18:683-695(2010)

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, Manway Liu, Lauren Murray ...Show all 61 authors... , 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=23285177; DOI=10.1371/journal.pone.0052760; PMCID=PMC3532357
Adam B. Schayowitz, Greg P. Bertenshaw, Emiko Jeffries, Timothy Schatz, James Cotton, Jessie Villanueva, Meenhard Herlyn, Clemens Krepler, Adina Vultur, Wei Xu, Gordon H. Yu, Lynn Mara Schuchter, Douglas P. Clark; Show fewer authors ...Show all 13 authors...
Functional profiling of live melanoma samples using a novel automated platform.
PLoS ONE 7:e52760.1-e52760.8(2012)

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, Alexander Y. Andreev-Drakhlin, Jaegil Kim ...Show all 68 authors... , 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)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) Coriell; WC00066 - Discontinued
Rockland; WM983B-01-0001
Cell line databases/resources cancercelllines; CVCL_6809
Cell_Model_Passport; SIDM01397
DepMap; ACH-000765
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0005042
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN10987974
CRISP screens repositories BioGRID_ORCS_Cell_line; 441
Chemistry resources PharmacoDB; WM983B_1666_2019
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54994346
Gene expression databases ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-2770
GEO; GSM109048
GEO; GSM887740
GEO; GSM888835
GEO; GSM952592
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 686406
Cosmic; 1155557
Cosmic; 1303082
IARC_TP53; 30190
LiGeA; CCLE_332
Progenetix; CVCL_6809
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update14-Aug-2025
Version number33