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Cellosaurus C666-1 (CVCL_7949)

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Cell line name C666-1
Synonyms c666-1; C6661
Accession CVCL_7949
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: C666-1 (RRID:CVCL_7949)
Comments Population: Chinese.
Virology: Contains a complete EBV genome (strain C666-1) which has been sequenced (PubMed=23915735; PubMed=25787276).
Doubling time: 3.5 days (PubMed=10449618).
Transformant: NCBI_TaxID; 10376; Epstein-Barr virus (EBV).
Omics: Transcriptomics; RNAseq.
Disease Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NCIt: C3871)
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (ORDO: Orphanet_150)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Parent: CVCL_M597 (C666)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling Age unspecified
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): PubMed=18196576; PubMed=26116706; PubMed=30405107

Markers:
AmelogeninX,Y
CSF1PO11,15 (PubMed=26116706)
11,15,16 (PubMed=18196576; PubMed=30405107)
D2S133816,23
D3S135816,17 (PubMed=18196576; PubMed=30405107)
17 (PubMed=26116706)
D5S81811,12
D7S82010,11,12 (PubMed=26116706)
11,12 (PubMed=18196576; PubMed=30405107)
D8S117911,13,14,15 (PubMed=18196576; PubMed=30405107)
13,15 (PubMed=26116706)
D13S3178,11
D16S53910
D18S5116 (PubMed=18196576; PubMed=30405107)
16,17 (PubMed=26116706)
D19S43313,15.2
D21S1128,29,30.2,31.2 (PubMed=18196576; PubMed=30405107)
29,31.2 (PubMed=26116706)
FGA21,24 (PubMed=26116706)
23,24 (PubMed=18196576; PubMed=30405107)
Penta D9,10
Penta E11,15
TH016,8
TPOX8,11
vWA17,18

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Publications

PubMed=10449618; DOI=10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19990924)83:1<121::AID-IJC21>3.0.CO;2-F
Siu-Tim Cheung, Dolly Wai-Sen Huang Poon, Angela Bik-Yu Hui, Kwok-Wai Lo, Chuen-Wai Ko, Yuen Shan Tsang, Nathalie Wong, Bruce M. Whitney, Joseph Chuen-Kwun Lee;
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell line (C666-1) consistently harbouring Epstein-Barr virus.
Int. J. Cancer 83:121-126(1999)

PubMed=12645650; DOI=10.1016/S0165-4608(02)00657-X
Nathalie Wong, Angela Bik-Yu Hui, Bo-Li Fan, Kwok-Wai Lo, Elizabeth Pang, Sing-Fai Leung, Dolly Wai-Sen Huang Poon, Philip James Johnson;
Molecular cytogenetic characterization of nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell lines and xenografts by comparative genomic hybridization and spectral karyotyping.
Cancer Genet. Cytogenet. 140:124-132(2003)

PubMed=18196576; DOI=10.1002/ijc.23374
Sylvia Yat-Yee Chan, Kwong-Wai Choy, George Sai-Wah Tsao, Qian Tao, Tao Tang, Grace Tin-Yun Chung, Kwok-Wai Lo;
Authentication of nasopharyngeal carcinoma tumor lines.
Int. J. Cancer 122:2169-2171(2008)

PubMed=23915735; DOI=10.1186/1750-9378-8-29; PMCID=PMC3734220
Ken Kai-Yuen Tso, Kevin Yuk-Lap Yip, Cathy Ka-Yan Mak, Grace Tin-Yun Chung, Sau-Dan Lee, Siu-Tim Cheung, Ka-Fai To, Kwok-Wai Lo;
Complete genomic sequence of Epstein-Barr virus in nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell line C666-1.
Infect. Agents Cancer 8:29.1-29.4(2013)

PubMed=24991015; DOI=10.1128/JVI.01457-14; PMCID=PMC4178894
Michael J. Strong, Melody Baddoo, Asuka Nanbo, Miao Xu, Adriane Puetter, Zhen Lin;
Comprehensive high-throughput RNA sequencing analysis reveals contamination of multiple nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell lines with HeLa cell genomes.
J. Virol. 88:10696-10704(2014)

PubMed=25787276; DOI=10.1128/JVI.03614-14; PMCID=PMC4442510
Anne L. Palser, Nicholas Edwin Grayson, Robert E. White, Craig Corton, Samantha Correia, Mohammed M. Ba Abdullah, Simon J. Watson, Matthew Cotten, John R. Arrand, Paul G. Murray, Martin John Allday ...Show all 15 authors... , Alan Bernard Rickinson, Lawrence S. Young, Paul J. Farrell, Paul Kellam; Show fewer authors
Genome diversity of Epstein-Barr virus from multiple tumor types and normal infection.
J. Virol. 89:5222-5237(2015)

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)

PubMed=30405107; DOI=10.1038/s41467-018-06889-5; PMCID=PMC6220246
Wei-Tao Lin, Yim-Ling Yip, Lin Jia, Wen Deng, Hong Zheng, Wei Dai, Josephine Mun-Yee Ko, Kwok-Wai Lo, Grace Tin-Yun Chung, Kevin Yuk-Lap Yip, Sau-Dan Lee ...Show all 35 authors... , Johnny Sheung-Him Kwan, Jun Zhang, Teng-Fei Liu, Jimmy Yu-Wai Chan, Dora Lai-Wan Kwong, Victor Ho-Fun Lee, John Malcolm Nicholls, Pierre Busson, Xue-Feng Liu, Alan Kwok-Shing Chiang, Kwai-Fung Hui, Hin Kwok, Siu-Tim Cheung, Yuk-Chun Cheung, Chi-Keung Chan, Bin Li, Annie Lai-Man Cheung, Pok-Man Hau, Yuan Zhou, Chi-Man Tsang, Jaap Michiel Middeldorp, Hong-Lin Chen, Maria Li Lung, George Sai-Wah Tsao; Show fewer authors
Establishment and characterization of new tumor xenografts and cancer cell lines from EBV-positive nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
Nat. Commun. 9:4663.1-4663.17(2018)

Cross-references
Cell line databases/resources Cell_Model_Passport; SIDM01988
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0004805
Chemistry resources ChEMBL-Cells; CHEMBL4482988
ChEMBL-Targets; CHEMBL4483231
PubChem_Cell_line; CVCL_7949
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54808229
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 1017617
Cosmic; 1301000
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number21