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Cellosaurus DiFi (CVCL_6895)

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Cell line name DiFi
Synonyms DIFI
Accession CVCL_6895
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: DiFi (RRID:CVCL_6895)
Comments Part of: Cancer Dependency Map project (DepMap) (includes Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia - CCLE).
Part of: COSMIC cell lines project.
Population: Caucasian.
Doubling time: ~40 hours (PubMed=8385096).
Microsatellite instability: Stable (MSS) (PubMed=25926053; Sanger).
Omics: Genomics; DNA methylation analysis.
Omics: Genomics; Whole exome sequencing.
Omics: Phenotyping; CRISPR screening.
Omics: Phenotyping; Drug screening.
Omics: Proteomics; PTM; Phosphorylation; Quantitative.
Omics: Proteomics; Quantitative.
Omics: Transcriptomics; Microarray.
Miscellaneous: Formerly the CCRID database had an entry describing this cell line (3111C0002000000030). It was one of the sources for the STR profile of this entry.
Derived from site: Metastatic; Ascites; UBERON=UBERON_0007795.
Sequence variations
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:583; APC; Simple; p.Glu443fs*16 (c.1328_1329delAA); Zygosity=Heterozygous (Cosmic-CLP=1789883; DepMap=ACH-002233).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:583; APC; Simple; p.Glu1151Ter (c.3451G>T); Zygosity=Heterozygous (Cosmic-CLP=1789883; DepMap=ACH-002233).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:11998; TP53; Simple; p.Lys132Arg (c.395A>G); ClinVar=VCV000376625; Zygosity=Homozygous (Cosmic-CLP=1789883; DepMap=ACH-002233).
Genome ancestry Source: PubMed=30894373

Origin% genome
African2.91
Native American0.44
East Asian, North1.85
East Asian, South0
South Asian0
European, North54.25
European, South40.55
Disease Colorectal carcinoma (NCIt: C2955)
Gardner syndrome (NCIt: C6728)
Gardner syndrome (ORDO: Orphanet_79665)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Children:
CVCL_EI68 (DCR10)CVCL_EI69 (DCR7)CVCL_EI70 (DCR9)
CVCL_A2BW (DiFi R1 Cetux)CVCL_A2BX (DiFi R2 Cetux)
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling 46Y
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): CCRID; Cosmic-CLP=1789883; PubMed=25926053

Markers:
AmelogeninX
CSF1PO10,11
D3S135817,18
D5S81811,12
D7S82010,12
D8S117912
D13S3178,11
D16S53912
D18S5113
D21S1132
FGA23,27
Penta D12
Penta E12,18
TH017,9.3
TPOX8,9
vWA17,18

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Publications

DOI=10.1007/978-4-431-68337-7_80
Bruce Millring Boman, Matilde Olive, Seema Untawale, Mark Blick, Susan North, Gary E. Gallick, Gaudenz Dolf, Michael Joseph Siciliano, Leor David Roubein, Herbert Fritche, Gilles Thomas ...Show all 14 authors... , Sen Pathak, David M. Wildrick, Bernard Levin; Show fewer authors
The DiFi rectal carcinoma cell line from a familial adenomatous polyposis patient: an in vitro model system to study genetic changes in colorectal cancer.
(In book chapter) Hereditary colorectal cancer; Utsunomiya, Joji & Lynch, Henry Thompson (eds.); pp.541-548; Springer; Tokyo; Japan (1990)

PubMed=8385096; DOI=10.1007/BF02634191
Matilde Olive, Seema Untawale, Robert J. Coffey, Michael Joseph Siciliano, David M. Wildrick, Herbert Fritsche, Sen Pathak, Lorraine M. Cherry, Mark Blick, Patrice Lointier, Leor David Roubein ...Show all 13 authors... , Bernard Levin, Bruce Millring Boman; Show fewer authors
Characterization of the DiFi rectal carcinoma cell line derived from a familial adenomatous polyposis patient.
In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. Anim. 29:239-248(1993)

PubMed=20570890; DOI=10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-10-0192; PMCID=PMC2943514
Manickam Janakiraman, Efsevia Vakiani, Zhao-Shi Zeng, Christine A. Pratilas, Barry Stephen Taylor, Dhananjay Chitale, Ensar Halilovic, Manda Wilson, Kety Huberman, Julio Cezar Marques Ricarte Filho, Yogindra Persaud ...Show all 21 authors... , Douglas A. Levine, James Alexander Fagin, Suresh C. Jhanwar, John M. Mariadason, Alex Lash, Marc Ladanyi, Leonard B. Saltz, Adriana Heguy, Philip B. Paty, David B. Solit; Show fewer authors
Genomic and biological characterization of exon 4 KRAS mutations in human cancer.
Cancer Res. 70:5901-5911(2010)

PubMed=22270724; DOI=10.1038/nm.2609
Clara Montagut, Alba Dalmases, Beatriz Bellosillo, Marta Crespo, Silvia Pairet, Mar Iglesias, Marta Salido, Manuel Gallen, Scot A. Marsters, Siao-Ping Tsai, Andre Minoche ...Show all 19 authors... , Somasekar Seshagiri, Sergi Serrano, Heinz Himmelbauer, Joaquim Bellmunt, Ana Rovira, Jeffrey Settleman, Francesc Bosch, Joan Albanell; Show fewer authors
Identification of a mutation in the extracellular domain of the epidermal growth factor receptor conferring cetuximab resistance in colorectal cancer.
Nat. Med. 18:221-223(2012)

PubMed=22722830; DOI=10.1038/nature11156; PMCID=PMC3927413
Sandra Misale, Rona D. Yaeger, Sebastijan Hobor, Elisa Scala, Manickam Janakiraman, David Liska, Emanuele Valtorta, Roberta Schiavo, Michela Buscarino, Giulia Siravegna, Katia Bruna Bencardino ...Show all 26 authors... , Andrea Cercek, Chin-Tung Chen, Silvio Veronese, Carlo Zanon, Andrea Sartore-Bianchi, Marcello Gambacorta, Margherita Gallicchio, Efsevia Vakiani, Valentina Boscaro, Enzo Medico, Martin R. Weiser, Salvatore Siena, Federica Di Nicolantonio, David B. Solit, Alberto Bardelli; Show fewer authors
Emergence of KRAS mutations and acquired resistance to anti-EGFR therapy in colorectal cancer.
Nature 486:532-536(2012)

PubMed=25623215; DOI=10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-14-2821
Sabrina Arena, Beatriz Bellosillo, Giulia Siravegna, Alejandro Martinez, Israel Canadas, Luca Lazzari, Noelia Ferruz, Mariangela Russo, Sandra Misale, Iria Gonzalez, Mar Iglesias ...Show all 25 authors... , Elena Gavilan, Giorgio Corti, Sebastijan Hobor, Giovanni Crisafulli, Marta Salido, Juan Sanchez, Alba Dalmases, Joaquim Bellmunt, Gianni De Fabritiis, Ana Rovira, Federica Di Nicolantonio, Joan Albanell, Alberto Bardelli, Clara Montagut; Show fewer authors
Emergence of multiple EGFR extracellular mutations during cetuximab treatment in colorectal cancer.
Clin. Cancer Res. 21:2157-2166(2015)

PubMed=25926053; DOI=10.1038/ncomms8002
Enzo Medico, Mariangela Russo, Gabriele Picco, Carlotta Cancelliere, Emanuele Valtorta, Giorgio Corti, Michela Buscarino, Claudio Isella, Simona Lamba, Barbara Martinoglio, Silvio Veronese ...Show all 19 authors... , Salvatore Siena, Andrea Sartore-Bianchi, Marco Beccuti, Marcella Mottolese, Michael Linnebacher, Francesca Cordero, Federica Di Nicolantonio, Alberto Bardelli; Show fewer authors
The molecular landscape of colorectal cancer cell lines unveils clinically actionable kinase targets.
Nat. Commun. 6:7002.1-7002.10(2015)

PubMed=27397505; DOI=10.1016/j.cell.2016.06.017; PMCID=PMC4967469
Francesco Iorio, Theo A. Knijnenburg, Daniel J. Vis, Graham Robert Bignell, Michael Patrick Menden, Michael Schubert, Nanne Aben, Emanuel Goncalves, Syd Barthorpe, Howard Lightfoot, Thomas Cokelaer ...Show all 39 authors... , Patricia Greninger, Ewald van Dyk, Han Chang, Heshani de Silva, Holger Heyn, Xian-Ming Deng, Regina K. Egan, Qing-Song Liu, Tatiana Mironenko, Xeni Mitropoulos, Laura Richardson, Jin-Hua Wang, Ting-Hu Zhang, Sebastian Moran, Sergi Sayols, Maryam Soleimani, David Tamborero, Nuria Lopez-Bigas, Petra Ross-Macdonald, Manel Esteller, Nathanael S. Gray, Daniel Arie Haber, Michael Rudolf Stratton, Cyril Henri Benes, Lodewyk F.A. Wessels, Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Ultan McDermott, Mathew J. Garnett; Show fewer authors
A landscape of pharmacogenomic interactions in cancer.
Cell 166:740-754(2016)

PubMed=28854368; DOI=10.1016/j.celrep.2017.08.010; PMCID=PMC5583477
Theodoros I. Roumeliotis, Steven P. Williams, Emanuel Goncalves, Clara Alsinet, Martin Del Castillo Velasco-Herrera, Nanne Aben, Fatemeh Zamanzad Ghavidel, Magali Michaut, Michael Schubert, Stacey Price, James C. Wright ...Show all 24 authors... , Lu Yu, Mi Yang, Rodrigo Dienstmann, Justin H. Guinney, Pedro Beltrao, Alvis Brazma, Mercedes Pardo, Oliver Stegle, David J. Adams, Lodewyk F.A. Wessels, Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Ultan McDermott, Jyoti S. Choudhary; Show fewer authors
Genomic determinants of protein abundance variation in colorectal cancer cells.
Cell Rep. 20:2201-2214(2017)

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=30971826; DOI=10.1038/s41586-019-1103-9
Fiona M. Behan, Francesco Iorio, Gabriele Picco, Emanuel Goncalves, Charlotte M. Beaver, Giorgia Migliardi, Rita Santos, Yanhua Rao, Francesco Sassi, Marika Pinnelli, Rizwan Ansari ...Show all 25 authors... , Sarah Harper, David Adam Jackson, Rebecca McRae, Rachel Pooley, Piers Wilkinson, Dieudonne J. van der Meer, David Dow, Carolyn A. Buser-Doepner, Andrea Bertotti, Livio Trusolino, Euan Alexander Stronach, Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Kosuke Yusa, Mathew J. Garnett; Show fewer authors
Prioritization of cancer therapeutic targets using CRISPR-Cas9 screens.
Nature 568:511-516(2019)

PubMed=35839778; DOI=10.1016/j.ccell.2022.06.010; PMCID=PMC9387775
Emanuel Goncalves, Rebecca C. Poulos, Zhao-Xiang Cai, Syd Barthorpe, Srikanth S. Manda, Natasha Lucas, Alexandra Beck, Daniel Bucio-Noble, Michael Dausmann, Caitlin Hall, Michael Hecker ...Show all 32 authors... , Jennifer Koh, Howard Lightfoot, Sadia Mahboob, Iman Mali, James Morris, Laura Richardson, Akila J. Seneviratne, Rebecca Shepherd, Erin Sykes, Frances Thomas, Sara Valentini, Steven G. Williams, Yang-Xiu Wu, Dylan Xavier, Karen L. MacKenzie, Peter G. Hains, Brett Tully, Phillip James Robinson, Qing Zhong, Mathew J. Garnett, Roger Robert Reddel; Show fewer authors
Pan-cancer proteomic map of 949 human cell lines.
Cancer Cell 40:835-849.e8(2022)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) KCB; KCB 2014033YJ
Cell line databases/resources cancercelllines; CVCL_6895
Cell_Model_Passport; SIDM00049
Cosmic-CLP; 1789883
DepMap; ACH-002233
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0005902
CRISP screens repositories BioGRID_ORCS_Cell_line; 856
Chemistry resources GDSC; 1789883
PharmacoDB; DIFI_291_2019
PubChem_Cell_line; CVCL_6895
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54831091
Gene expression databases ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-3610
GEO; GSM1448175
GEO; GSM1669732
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 1479628
Cosmic; 1519358
Cosmic; 2841360
Proteomic databases PRIDE; PXD005235
PRIDE; PXD030304
Sequence databases EGA; EGAS00001000978
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number33