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Cellosaurus CPE/LULS50 (CVCL_C1YI)

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Cell line name CPE/LULS50
Accession CVCL_C1YI
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: CPE/LULS50 (RRID:CVCL_C1YI)
Comments Group: Insect cell line.
Characteristics: Originally infected by the intracellular symbiont Wolbachia wPip but cured of infection by tetracycline.
Derived from site: In situ; Whole embryo; UBERON=UBERON_0000922.
Species of origin Culex pipiens pipiens x Culex pipiens molestus (Hybrid mosquito) (NCBI Taxonomy: 1833972)
Breed/subspecies: Caldbeck line.
Sex of cell Sex unspecified
Age at sampling Embryonic stage
Category Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Web pages Provider; TCB; -; https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/research/facilities/tick-cell-biobank/
Publications

PubMed=34680640; DOI=10.3390/insects12100871; PMCID=PMC8539649
Bell-Sakyi L., Beliavskaia A.Y., Hartley C.S., Jones L., Luu L., Haines L.R., Hamilton J.G.C., Darby A.C., Makepeace B.L.
Isolation in natural host cell lines of Wolbachia strains wPip from the mosquito Culex pipiens and wPap from the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasi.
Insects 12:871.1-871.18(2021)

Cross-references
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q114310998
Entry history
Entry creation22-Sep-2022
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number6