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Cellosaurus WUR-GeoBa-1 (CVCL_D4A4)

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Cell line name WUR-GeoBa-1
Accession CVCL_D4A4
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: WUR-GeoBa-1 (RRID:CVCL_D4A4)
Comments Senescence: Can undergo at least 98 PDL in OpM1 medium (PubMed=37031251).
Doubling time: ~0.5 hours (Note=In OpM1 medium), ~1 hour (Note=In M1 medium) (PubMed=37031251).
Anecdotal: First sponge cell line to be established.
Miscellaneous: As no cell line name was provided in the paper, we assigned the name based on the abbreviation of the institution and the species 5 letter code.
Species of origin Geodia barretti (Barrett's horny sponge) (NCBI Taxonomy: 519541)
Category Finite cell line
Publications

DOI=10.18174/540280
Kylie van Deinsen-Hesp;
Dawn of a new era in sponge biotechnology.
Thesis PhD (2021); Wageningen University; Wageningen; Netherlands

PubMed=37031251; DOI=10.1038/s41598-023-32394-x; PMCID=PMC10082835
Kylie van Deinsen-Hesp, Jans M.E. van der Heijden, Stephanie Munroe, Detmer Sipkema, Dirk E. Martens, Rene H. Wijffels, Shirley A. Pomponi;
First continuous marine sponge cell line established.
Sci. Rep. 13:5766.1-5766.11(2023)

Cross-references
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q127384724
Entry history
Entry creation30-Jan-2024
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number3