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Cellosaurus ESP-1 (CVCL_8351)

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Cell line name ESP-1
Synonyms ESP1
Accession CVCL_8351
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: ESP-1 (RRID:CVCL_8351)
Comments Problematic cell line: Contaminated. Shown to be a HeLa derivative (PubMed=1246601; PubMed=6451928; PubMed=20143388).
Registration: International Cell Line Authentication Committee, Register of Misidentified Cell Lines; ICLAC-00043.
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=1246601; DOI=10.1126/science.1246601
Walter Anthony Nelson-Rees, Robert R. Flandermeyer;
HeLa cultures defined.
Science 191:96-98(1976)

PubMed=6451928; DOI=10.1126/science.6451928
Walter Anthony Nelson-Rees, David W. Daniels, Robert R. Flandermeyer;
Cross-contamination of cells in culture.
Science 212:446-452(1981)

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; SAMN03151692
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54832834
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number22