Cellosaurus cell line CAC2 (CVCL

Cellosaurus CAC2 (CVCL_6883)

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Cell line name	CAC2
Synonyms	CAC-2; Carcinoma Adenoide Cistico 2
Accession	CVCL_6883
Resource Identification Initiative	To cite this cell line use: CAC2 (RRID:CVCL_6883)
Comments	Problematic cell line: Misidentified. Originally thought to be of human origin but found to be from rat (PubMed=19557180; PubMed=20143388). Originally thought to originate from salivary gland adenoid cystic carcinoma. Registration: International Cell Line Authentication Committee, Register of Misidentified Cell Lines; ICLAC-00362.
Species of origin	Rattus norvegicus (Rat) (NCBI Taxonomy: 10116)
Sex of cell	Sex unspecified
Age at sampling	Age unspecified
Category	Undefined cell line type
Web pages	Info; ICLAC; -; https://iclac.org/wp-content/uploads/Cross-Contaminations_v13_distribution.xlsx
Publications	CLPUB00355 Cristiane Miranda Franca, Paulo Tambasco de Oliveira, Marcia M.M. Jaeger, Ruy G. Jaeger; Salivary gland tumors: a cytodifferentiation in vitro study. J. Dent. Res. 76:1001.287-1001.287(1997) PubMed=19557180; DOI=10.1371/journal.pone.0006040; PMCID=PMC2698276 Janyaporn Phuchareon, Yoshihito Ohta, Jonathan M. Woo, David William Eisele, Osamu Tetsu; Genetic profiling reveals cross-contamination and misidentification of 6 adenoid cystic carcinoma cell lines: ACC2, ACC3, ACCM, ACCNS, ACCS and CAC2. PLoS ONE 4:e6040.1-e6040.8(2009) PubMed=20143388; DOI=10.1002/ijc.25242 Amanda Capes-Davis, George Theodosopoulos, Isobel Atkin, Hans Gunther Drexler, Arihiro Kohara, Roderick A.F. MacLeod, John R.W. Masters, Yukio Nakamura, Yvonne A. Reid, Roger Robert Reddel, Robert Ian Freshney; Check your cultures! A list of cross-contaminated or misidentified cell lines. Int. J. Cancer 127:1-8(2010) DOI=10.4103/2468-5585.200513 Nan-Nan Liu, Sen-Lin Zhang, Wei Chen; The cross-contaminated cell lines of adenoid cystic carcinoma: a crucial concern. Transl. Surg. 2:10-13(2017)
Biological sample resources	BioSample; SAMN03152001
Encyclopedic resources	Wikidata; Q54808312
Entry history
Entry creation	04-Apr-2012
Last entry update	10-Apr-2025
Version number	18