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Cellosaurus ADLC-5M2 (CVCL_8169)

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Cell line name ADLC-5M2
Synonyms ADenocarcinoma Lung Cancer-5M2
Accession CVCL_8169
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: ADLC-5M2 (RRID:CVCL_8169)
Comments Problematic cell line: Contaminated. Shown to be a HeLa derivative (PubMed=10508494; PubMed=20143388). Originally thought to originate from a 67 year old male patient with a lung adenocarcinoma.
Registration: International Cell Line Authentication Committee, Register of Misidentified Cell Lines; ICLAC-00111.
Population: African American.
Transformant: NCBI_TaxID; 333761; Human papillomavirus type 18 (HPV18).
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)
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling 30Y6M
Category Cancer cell line
Web pages Info; ICLAC; -; https://iclac.org/wp-content/uploads/Cross-Contaminations_v13_distribution.xlsx
Publications

PubMed=2840315; DOI=10.1111/j.1432-0436.1988.tb00806.x
Gerold Bepler, Angelika Koehler, Paul Kiefer, Klaus Havemann, Karin Beisenherz, Gabriele Jaques, Claw Gropp, Maria Haeder;
Characterization of the state of differentiation of six newly established human non-small-cell lung cancer cell lines.
Differentiation 37:158-171(1988)

PubMed=10508494; DOI=10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19991112)83:4<555::AID-IJC19>3.0.CO;2-2
Roderick A.F. MacLeod, Wilhelm Gerhard Dirks, Yoshinobu Matsuo, Maren Kaufmann, Herbert Milch, Hans Gunther Drexler;
Widespread intraspecies cross-contamination of human tumor cell lines arising at source.
Int. J. Cancer 83:555-563(1999)

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)

Cross-references
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN03151662
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54608860
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number24