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Cellosaurus HepaRG (CVCL_9720)

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Cell line name HepaRG
Synonyms Hepa-RG
Accession CVCL_9720
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: HepaRG (RRID:CVCL_9720)
Comments Group: Patented cell line.
Registration: International Depositary Authority, Pasteur Institute Collection Nationale de Cultures de Micro-organismes (CNCM); I-2652.
Characteristics: Can be induced to differentiate into hepatocyte-like cells by exposure to DMSO.
Characteristics: Cell line main applications are sugar and lipid metabolism, physiopathology; drug metabolism and toxicology and viral infection.
Doubling time: 24 hours (PubMed=12432097).
Omics: Genomics; Whole exome sequencing.
Omics: Proteomics.
Omics: Proteomics; Expression; Reverse-phase protein array.
Omics: Proteomics; Subcellular; Membrane.
Omics: Proteomics; Subcellular; Secretome.
Omics: Transcriptomics; Microarray.
Omics: Transcriptomics; miRNA profiling; Microarray.
Anecdotal: The 'RG' in the cell name stands for Rumin and Gripon, the two scientists that were influential in the establishment of this cell line.
Miscellaneous: This cell line is exclusively produced and controlled by Biopredic International and owned by Inserm. BioPredic sells undifferentiated cell line (HPR101) that can be expanded, passaged, and frozen in-house to prepare a cell bank and differentiated ready-to-use cells, HPR116 (Cellosaurus=CVCL_WL73) that can be used immediately or in a few days after thawing, as a single-use disposable product (Biopredic).
Derived from site: In situ; Liver; UBERON=UBERON_0002107.
Disease Hepatitis C infection (NCIt: C3098)
Hepatocellular carcinoma (NCIt: C3099)
Hepatocellular carcinoma (ORDO: Orphanet_88673)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Children:
CVCL_FA14 (Hepa-SC)CVCL_B6A6 (HepaRG 5F)CVCL_JJ68 (HepaRG CYP3A4G/7R clone 3)
CVCL_XI49 (HepaRG-CAR)CVCL_JY39 (HepaRG-hNTCP)CVCL_C0QZ (HepaRG(VC))
CVCL_WL73 (HPR116)
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling Age unspecified
Category Cancer cell line
Web pages Info; LCCL; -; https://lccl.zucmanlab.com/hcc/cellLines/HepaRG
Info; Wikipedia; -; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HepaRG
Provider; Biopredic; -; https://web.archive.org/web/20221228183303/http://www.heparg.com/
Provider; Biopredic; -; https://www.biopredicadvancells.com/product/cryopreserved-heparg-116-cells/
Provider; Thermo Fisher; HPRGC10; https://www.thermofisher.com/order/catalog/product/HPRGC10
Provider; TRL; -; https://web.archive.org/web/20171123042648/http://triangleresearchlabs.net/products-hepatocytes/nospin-heparg/
Publications

PubMed=12432097; DOI=10.1073/pnas.232137699; PMCID=PMC137772
Philippe Gripon, Sylvie Rumin, Stephan Urban, Jacques Le Seyec, Denise Glaise, Isabelle Cannie, Claire Guyomard, Josette Lucas, Christian Trepo, Christiane Guguen-Guillouzo;
Infection of a human hepatoma cell line by hepatitis B virus.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99:15655-15660(2002)

PubMed=17241619; DOI=10.1016/j.cbi.2006.12.003
Andre Guillouzo, Anne Corlu, Caroline Aninat, Denise Glaise, Fabrice Morel, Christiane Guguen-Guillouzo;
The human hepatoma HepaRG cells: a highly differentiated model for studies of liver metabolism and toxicity of xenobiotics.
Chem. Biol. Interact. 168:66-73(2007)

PubMed=17393521; DOI=10.1002/hep.21536
Virginie Cerec, Denise Glaise, Delphine Garnier, Serban Morosan, Bruno Turlin, Bernard Drenou, Philippe Gripon, Dina Kremsdorf, Christiane Guguen-Guillouzo, Anne Corlu;
Transdifferentiation of hepatocyte-like cells from the human hepatoma HepaRG cell line through bipotent progenitor.
Hepatology 45:957-967(2007)

Patent=US7456018
Philippe Gripon, Christiane Guguen-Guillouzo, Christian Trepo, Sylvie Rumin;
Human hepatoma lines, methods for obtaining same and uses thereof.
Patent number US7456018, 25-Nov-2008

PubMed=20228232; DOI=10.1124/dmd.109.031831; PMCID=PMC2879958
Steven N. Hart, Ye Li, Kaori Nakamoto, Eva-Anne Subileau, David Steen, Xiao-Bo Zhong;
A comparison of whole genome gene expression profiles of HepaRG cells and HepG2 cells to primary human hepatocytes and human liver tissues.
Drug Metab. Dispos. 38:988-994(2010)

PubMed=20645056; DOI=10.1007/978-1-60761-688-7_13
Marie-Jeanne Marion, Olivier Hantz, David Durantel;
The HepaRG cell line: biological properties and relevance as a tool for cell biology, drug metabolism, and virology studies.
Methods Mol. Biol. 640:261-272(2010)

PubMed=21414303; DOI=10.1016/j.bcp.2011.03.004
Liesbeth Ceelen, Ward De Spiegelaere, Michael David, Jurgen De Craene, Mathieu Vinken, Tamara Vanhaecke, Vera Rogiers;
Critical selection of reliable reference genes for gene expression study in the HepaRG cell line.
Biochem. Pharmacol. 81:1255-1261(2011)

PubMed=22568886; DOI=10.1517/17425255.2012.685159
Tommy B. Andersson, Kajsa P. Kanebratt, J. Gerry Kenna;
The HepaRG cell line: a unique in vitro tool for understanding drug metabolism and toxicology in human.
Expert Opin. Drug Metab. Toxicol. 8:909-920(2012)

PubMed=22594799; DOI=10.3109/13813455.2012.683442
Carolina Huaman Samanez, Sandrine Caron, Olivier Briand, Helene Dehondt, Isabelle Duplan, Folkert Kuipers, Nathalie Hennuyer, Veronique Clavey, Bart Staels;
The human hepatocyte cell lines IHH and HepaRG: models to study glucose, lipid and lipoprotein metabolism.
Arch. Physiol. Biochem. 118:102-111(2012)

PubMed=22643240; DOI=10.1016/j.tiv.2012.05.008
Sebastien Antherieu, Christophe Chesne, Ruo-Ya Li, Christiane Guguen-Guillouzo, Andre Guillouzo;
Optimization of the HepaRG cell model for drug metabolism and toxicity studies.
Toxicol. In Vitro 26:1278-1285(2012)

PubMed=22857383; DOI=10.1186/1477-5956-10-47; PMCID=PMC3527237
Izabela Sokolowska, Cristina M. Dorobantu, Alisa G. Woods, Alina Macovei, Norica Branza-Nichita, Costel C. Darie;
Proteomic analysis of plasma membranes isolated from undifferentiated and differentiated HepaRG cells.
Proteome Sci. 10:47.1-47.13(2012)

PubMed=23887712; DOI=10.1038/ncomms3218; PMCID=PMC3731665
Jean-Charles Nault, Maxime Mallet, Camilla Pilati, Julien Calderaro, Paulette Bioulac-Sage, Christophe Laurent, Alexis Laurent, Daniel Cherqui, Charles Balabaud, Jessica Zucman-Rossi;
High frequency of telomerase reverse-transcriptase promoter somatic mutations in hepatocellular carcinoma and preneoplastic lesions.
Nat. Commun. 4:2218.1-2218.7(2013)

PubMed=26160117; DOI=10.1093/toxsci/kfv136; PMCID=PMC4583060
Rowena L.C. Sison-Young, Dimitra Mitsa, Rosalind E. Jenkins, David Mottram, Eliane Alexandre, Lysiane Richert, Helene Aerts, Richard J. Weaver, Robert P. Jones, Esther Johann, Philip G. Hewitt ...Show all 15 authors... , Magnus Ingelman-Sundberg, Christopher E.P. Goldring, Neil R. Kitteringham, Brian Kevin Park; Show fewer authors
Comparative proteomic characterization of 4 human liver-derived single cell culture models reveals significant variation in the capacity for drug disposition, bioactivation, and detoxication.
Toxicol. Sci. 147:412-424(2015)

PubMed=26694163; DOI=10.1371/journal.pone.0144924; PMCID=PMC4692263
Joanna Janiszewska, Marcin Szaumkessel, Magdalena Kostrzewska-Poczekaj, Kinga Bednarek, Julia Paczkowska, Joanna Jackowska, Reidar Grenman, Krzysztof Szyfter, Malgorzata Wierzbicka, Maciej Giefing, Malgorzata Jarmuz-Szymczak;
Global miRNA expression profiling identifies miR-1290 as novel potential oncomiR in laryngeal carcinoma.
PLoS ONE 10:e0144924.1-e0144924.13(2015)

PubMed=27027780; DOI=10.1007/s10565-016-9316-2
Yu Wu, Xing-Chao Geng, Ju-Feng Wang, Yu-Fa Miao, Yan-Li Lu, Bo Li;
The HepaRG cell line, a superior in vitro model to L-02, HepG2 and hiHeps cell lines for assessing drug-induced liver injury.
Cell Biol. Toxicol. 32:37-59(2016)

PubMed=27169750; DOI=10.1038/srep24709; PMCID=PMC4867683
Ahmad Sharanek, Audrey Burban, Matthew Burbank, Remy Le Guevel, Ruo-Ya Li, Andre Guillouzo, Christiane Guguen-Guillouzo;
Rho-kinase/myosin light chain kinase pathway plays a key role in the impairment of bile canaliculi dynamics induced by cholestatic drugs.
Sci. Rep. 6:24709-24709(2016)

PubMed=27780834; DOI=10.1124/dmd.116.072603
Vincent A. van der Mark, Dirk Rudi de Waart, Valery Shevchenko, Ronald P.J. Oude Elferink, Robert A.F.M. Chamuleau, Ruurdtje Hoekstra;
Stable overexpression of the constitutive androstane receptor reduces the requirement for culture with dimethyl sulfoxide for high drug metabolism in HepaRG cells.
Drug Metab. Dispos. 45:56-67(2017)

PubMed=27975304; DOI=10.1007/978-1-4939-6700-1_2
Yi Ni, Stephan Urban;
Hepatitis B virus infection of HepaRG cells, HepaRG-hNTCP cells, and primary human hepatocytes.
Methods Mol. Biol. 1540:15-25(2017)

PubMed=28904299; DOI=10.2131/jts.42.641
Takafumi Tomida, Masakazu Ishimura, Masahiro Iwaki;
A cell-based assay using HepaRG cells for predicting drug-induced phospholipidosis.
J. Toxicol. Sci. 42:641-650(2017)

PubMed=30795634; DOI=10.3390/cells8020192; PMCID=PMC6406872
Georg Tascher, Audrey Burban, Sandrine Camus, Marine I. Plumel, Stephanie Chanon, Remy Le Guevel, Valery Shevchenko, Alain Van Dorsselaer, Etienne Lefai, Christiane Guguen-Guillouzo, Fabrice Bertile;
In-depth proteome analysis highlights HepaRG cells as a versatile cell system surrogate for primary human hepatocytes.
Cells 8:192.1-192.25(2019)

PubMed=31063779; DOI=10.1053/j.gastro.2019.05.001
Stefano Caruso, Anna-Line Calatayud, Jill Pilet, Tiziana La Bella, Samia Rekik, Sandrine Imbeaud, Eric Letouze, Lea Meunier, Quentin Bayard, Nataliya Rohr-Udilova, Camille Peneau ...Show all 20 authors... , Bettina Grasl-Kraupp, Leanne de Koning, Berengere Ouine, Paulette Bioulac-Sage, Gabrielle Couchy, Julien Calderaro, Jean-Charles Nault, Jessica Zucman-Rossi, Sandra Rebouissou; Show fewer authors
Analysis of liver cancer cell lines identifies agents with likely efficacy against hepatocellular carcinoma and markers of response.
Gastroenterology 157:760-776(2019)

PubMed=33441761; DOI=10.1038/s41598-020-79952-1; PMCID=PMC7806635
Tamara Heintze, Kathrin Klein, Ute Hofmann, Ulrich M. Zanger;
Differential effects on human cytochromes P450 by CRISPR/Cas9-induced genetic knockout of cytochrome P450 reductase and cytochrome b5 in HepaRG cells.
Sci. Rep. 11:1000.1-1000.14(2021)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) Millipore; C103485 - Discontinued
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0005736
Chemistry resources ChEMBL-Cells; CHEMBL4630773
ChEMBL-Targets; CHEMBL4630781
PubChem_Cell_line; CVCL_9720
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54882834
Experimental variables resources EFO; EFO_0001186
Metabolomic databases MetaboLights; MTBLS78
MetaboLights; MTBLS4063
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 2162524
Proteomic databases PRIDE; PXD001107
PRIDE; PXD004752
PRIDE; PXD006267
PRIDE; PXD010304
Entry history
Entry creation06-Jun-2012
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number33