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Cellosaurus FB-2 (CVCL_9917)

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Cell line name FB-2
Synonyms FB2
Accession CVCL_9917
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: FB-2 (RRID:CVCL_9917)
Comments Problematic cell line: Contaminated. Shown to be a TPC-1 derivative (PubMed=19087340; PubMed=20143388). Originally thought to originate from a 36 year old female patient with a well-differentiated thyroid papillary carcinoma.
Registration: International Cell Line Authentication Committee, Register of Misidentified Cell Lines; ICLAC-00200.
Population: Japanese.
Derived from site: In situ; Thyroid gland; UBERON=UBERON_0002046.
Sequence variations
  • Gene fusion; HGNC; HGNC:18782; CCDC6 + HGNC; HGNC:9967; RET; Name(s)=CCDC6-RET, RET/PTC1 (from parent cell line).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:1787; CDKN2A; Simple; p.Ala68fs (c.204_208delGGAGC); Zygosity=Homozygous (from parent cell line).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:11355; STAG2; Simple; p.Gln1089Ter (c.3265C>T); Zygosity=Heterozygous (from parent cell line).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:11730; TERT; Simple; c.1-124C>T (c.228C>T) (C228T); Zygosity=Heterozygous; Note=In promoter (from parent cell line).
Disease Thyroid gland papillary carcinoma (NCIt: C4035)
Differentiated thyroid carcinoma (ORDO: Orphanet_146)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Parent: CVCL_6298 (TPC-1)
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling Adult
Category Cancer cell line
Web pages Info; ICLAC; -; https://iclac.org/wp-content/uploads/Cross-Contaminations_v13_distribution.xlsx
Publications

PubMed=11807785; DOI=10.1002/ijc.10116
Fulvio Basolo, Riccardo Giannini, Antonio Toniolo, Rosario Casalone, Marina Nikiforova, Furio Pacini, Rossella Elisei, Paolo Miccoli, Piero Berti, Pinuccia Faviana, Lisa Fiore ...Show all 17 authors... , Carmen Monaco, Giovanna Maria Pierantoni, Monica Fedele, Yuri E. Nikiforov, Massimo Mattia Santoro, Alfredo Fusco; Show fewer authors
Establishment of a non-tumorigenic papillary thyroid cell line (FB-2) carrying the RET/PTC1 rearrangement.
Int. J. Cancer 97:608-614(2002)

PubMed=17725429; DOI=10.1089/thy.2007.0097
Ana Margarida Meireles, Ana Preto, Ana Sofia Rocha, Ana Paula Rebocho, Valdemar Maximo, Isabel Pereira-Castro, Severina Moreira, Talia Feijao, Tiago Botelho, Ricardo Marques, Vitor Trovisco ...Show all 16 authors... , Luis Cirnes, Cintia Alves, Sergia Velho, Paula Soares, Manuel Sobrinho-Simoes; Show fewer authors
Molecular and genotypic characterization of human thyroid follicular cell carcinoma-derived cell lines.
Thyroid 17:707-715(2007)

PubMed=19087340; DOI=10.1186/1471-2407-8-371; PMCID=PMC2651892
Franclim Ricardo Ribeiro, Ana Margarida Meireles, Ana Sofia Rocha, Manuel R. Teixeira;
Conventional and molecular cytogenetics of human non-medullary thyroid carcinoma: characterization of eight cell line models and review of the literature on clinical samples.
BMC Cancer 8:371.1-371.11(2008)

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; SAMN03151972
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54833256
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 1084278
IARC_TP53; 25010
Entry history
Entry creation06-Jun-2012
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number26