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Cellosaurus WM164 (CVCL_7928)

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Cell line name WM164
Synonyms WM-164; WM 164
Accession CVCL_7928
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: WM164 (RRID:CVCL_7928)
Comments Part of: Wistar Institute melanoma cell line collection.
Population: Caucasian.
Doubling time: 48 hours (PubMed=2253310).
Omics: Proteomics.
Omics: Transcriptomics; Microarray.
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: CSF1PO: 11,12->12, D18S51: 12,21->10,12,13, D2S1338: 19->18,19, D5S818: 11,12->12, FGA: 20->21,25 and vWA: 14,15->14,18.
Derived from site: Metastatic; Arm, skin; UBERON=UBERON_0002427.
Sequence variations
Disease Cutaneous melanoma (NCIt: C3510)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Children:
CVCL_6357 (451Lu)CVCL_B6Q1 (WM164 VDR KO)CVCL_B6Q0 (WM164-Bch4)
Originate from same individual CVCL_DG51 ! Mel1617
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling 22Y
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): Wistar

Markers:
AmelogeninX
CSF1PO12
D2S133818,19
D3S135818
D5S81812
D7S8209,10
D8S117913,14
D13S31711
D16S53913
D18S5110,12,13
D19S43313
D21S1128,31.2
FGA21,25
TH019
TPOX8,10
vWA14,18

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

PubMed=2918552; DOI=10.1093/jnci/81.6.440
Dimitrios Iliopoulos, Carolyn S. Ernst, Zenon Steplewski, Jadranka Adriana Jambrosic, Ulrich Rodeck, Meenhard Herlyn, Wallace H. Clark Jr., Hilary Koprowski, Dorothee Herlyn;
Inhibition of metastases of a human melanoma xenograft by monoclonal antibody to the GD2/GD3 gangliosides.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 81:440-444(1989)

PubMed=2156614
Dorothee Herlyn, Dimitrios Iliopoulos, Pamela J. Jensen, Annette Hollister Parmiter, Janet Baird, Hak Hotta, Koji Adachi, Alonzo H. Ross, Jadranka Adriana Jambrosic, Hilary Koprowski, Meenhard Herlyn;
In vitro properties of human melanoma cells metastatic in nude mice.
Cancer Res. 50:2296-2302(1990)

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

PubMed=8342600; PMCID=PMC1887031
Istvan Juhasz, Steven M. Albelda, David E. Elder, George Francis Murphy, Koji Adachi, Dorothee Herlyn, Istvan T. Valyi-Nagy, Meenhard Herlyn;
Growth and invasion of human melanomas in human skin grafted to immunodeficient mice.
Am. J. Pathol. 143:528-537(1993)

PubMed=15009714; DOI=10.1046/j.0022-202X.2004.22243.x; PMCID=PMC2586668
Hensin Tsao, Vikas Goel, Heng Wu, Guang Yang, Frank G. Haluska;
Genetic interaction between NRAS and BRAF mutations and PTEN/MMAC1 inactivation in melanoma.
J. Invest. Dermatol. 122:337-341(2004)

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=18790768; DOI=10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-08-0431; PMCID=PMC2651569
Keiran S.M. Smalley, Mercedes Lioni, Maurizia Dalla Palma, Min Xiao, Brijal Desai, Suzanne Egyhazi Brage, Johan Hansson, Hong Wu, Alastair J. King, Patricia Van Belle, David E. Elder ...Show all 14 authors... , Keith Thomas Flaherty, Meenhard Herlyn, Katherine L. Nathanson; Show fewer authors
Increased cyclin D1 expression can mediate BRAF inhibitor resistance in BRAF V600E-mutated melanomas.
Mol. Cancer Ther. 7:2876-2883(2008)

PubMed=30380804; DOI=10.3390/molecules23112823; PMCID=PMC6278572
Nadine Kretschmer, Alexander J.A. Deutsch, Christin Durchschein, Beate Rinner, Alexander Stallinger, Juan Carlos Higareda-Almaraz, Marcel Scheideler, Birgit Lohberger, Rudolf Bauer;
Comparative gene expression analysis in WM164 melanoma cells revealed that beta-beta-dimethylacrylshikonin leads to ROS generation, loss of mitochondrial membrane potential, and autophagy induction.
Molecules 23:2823.1-2823.17(2018)

PubMed=34206371; DOI=10.3390/cancers13133111; PMCID=PMC8269360
Ewa Podgorska, Tae-Kang Kim, Zorica Janjetovic, Krystyna Urbanska, Robert C. Tuckey, Sejong Bae, Andrzej Tadeusz Slominski;
Knocking out the vitamin D receptor enhances malignancy and decreases responsiveness to vitamin D3 hydroxyderivatives in human melanoma cells.
Cancers (Basel) 13:3111.1-3111.15(2021)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) Rockland; WM164-01-0001
Cell line databases/resources cancercelllines; CVCL_7928
Cell_Model_Passport; SIDM00802
Chemistry resources ChEMBL-Cells; CHEMBL4630601
ChEMBL-Targets; CHEMBL4630701
PubChem_Cell_line; CVCL_7928
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54994187
Gene expression databases GEO; GSM109030
GEO; GSM186471
GEO; GSM186472
GEO; GSM952584
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 888857
Cosmic; 897481
Cosmic; 928684
Cosmic; 1155550
Cosmic; 1187586
Cosmic; 1303065
Progenetix; CVCL_7928
Proteomic databases PRIDE; PXD004343
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update14-Aug-2025
Version number30