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Cellosaurus SPC-A1 (CVCL_6955)

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Cell line name SPC-A1
Synonyms SPC-A-1; SPCA-1; SPCA1
Accession CVCL_6955
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: SPC-A1 (RRID:CVCL_6955)
Comments Problematic cell line: Contaminated. Shown to be a HeLa derivative (CCRID; PubMed=26116706). Originally thought to be a lung adenocarcinoma.
Registration: International Cell Line Authentication Committee, Register of Misidentified Cell Lines; ICLAC-00608.
Population: African American.
Transformant: NCBI_TaxID; 333761; Human papillomavirus type 18 (HPV18).
Miscellaneous: Formerly the CCRID database had 3 entries describing this cell line (3111C0001CCC000387, 3131C0001000700053, 3142C0001000000050). They were one of the sources for the STR profile of this entry.
Derived from site: In situ; Uterus, cervix; UBERON=UBERON_0000002.
Disease Human papillomavirus-related endocervical adenocarcinoma (NCIt: C27677)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Parent: CVCL_0030 (HeLa)
Children:
CVCL_YP05 (SPC-A-1BM)CVCL_W217 (SPC-A1/DTX)
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling 30Y6M
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): CCRID; PubMed=26116706

Markers:
AmelogeninX
CSF1PO9,10
D2S133817
D3S135815,18
D5S81811,12
D6S104318,19
D7S8208,12
D8S117912
D12S39120,25
D13S31712,13.3
D16S5399,10
D18S5116
D19S43313,14
D21S1127,28
FGA21
Penta D8,15
Penta E7,17
TH017
TPOX8,12
vWA16,18

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Web pages Info; ICLAC; -; https://iclac.org/wp-content/uploads/Cross-Contaminations_v13_distribution.xlsx
Publications

PubMed=22862169; DOI=10.4149/neo_2012_087
Chun-Hui Zhou, S.-F. Yang, P.-Q. Li;
Human lung cancer cell line SPC-A1 contains cells with characteristics of cancer stem cells.
Neoplasma 59:685-692(2012)

PubMed=26116706; DOI=10.1096/fj.14-266718
Fang Ye, Chu-Guang Chen, Jian Qin, Jie Liu, Cong-Yi Zheng;
Genetic profiling reveals an alarming rate of cross-contamination among human cell lines used in China.
FASEB J. 29:4268-4272(2015)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) CCTCC; GDC0050
Cell line databases/resources TOKU-E; 3573
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0006512
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54955522
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 1515871
Cosmic; 2664119
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number18