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Cellosaurus BY-2 (CVCL_D5GM)

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Cell line name BY-2
Synonyms BY2; TBY-2; TBY2; Tobacco BY-2; NT-1; NT1; Nicotiana tabacum-1
Accession CVCL_D5GM
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: BY-2 (RRID:CVCL_D5GM)
Comments Group: Plant cell line.
Characteristics: Can be used to prepare protoplasts (PubMed=17947977).
Characteristics: Produces low levels of nicotine (PubMed=18567891).
Characteristics: Tested for the production of animal proteins (PubMed=7766897).
Characteristics: Tested for the production of bacterial proteins (PubMed=14688094; PubMed=22928883).
Characteristics: Tested for the production of synthetic proteins (PubMed=15818563).
Characteristics: Tested for the production of viral proteins (PubMed=14680934; PubMed=12601177; PubMed=16187337).
Characteristics: Used as model for the electrochemical sensing of beta-glucuronidase activity of transgenic cell lines (PubMed=29982119).
Doubling time: 15.8 hours (DOI=10.1016/S0074-7696(08)62452-3).
Omics: Transcriptomics; Microarray.
Omics: Transcriptomics; RNAseq.
Anecdotal: BY-2 cell line was generated at the Japan Tobacco and Salt Monopoly Public Corporation. In 1982 Toshiyuki Nagata brought it with him to the USA and left it there after renaming it to NT-1 in order to distribute it clandestinely because he was not allowed officially to give the BY-2 cells to others. He called it NT-1 as it could both mean Nicotiana tabacum or Nagata, Toshiyuki (PubMed=37642778).
Derived from site: In situ; Seedling; PO=PO_0008037.
Species of origin Nicotiana tabacum (Common tobacco) (NCBI Taxonomy: 4097)
Breed/subspecies: Cultivar Bright Yellow 2.
Hierarchy Children:
CVCL_D5GN (BY-GF11)CVCL_D5GP (BY-GV7)CVCL_D5GR (TBY2-41/ST)
CVCL_D5GS (TBY2-AtRER1B)CVCL_D5GT (TBY2-R31)
Category Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Web pages Info; Wikipedia; -; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_BY-2_cells
Publications

CLPUB00765
Kumio Kato, Takashi Matsumoto, Akira Koiwai, Shigenobu Mizusaki, Koh Nishida, Masao Noguchi, Einosuke Tamaki;
Liquid suspension culture of tobacco cells.
(In book chapter) Fermentation technology today. Proceedings of the IVth international fermentation symposium; Terui, Gyozo (eds.); pp.689-695; Society of Fermentation Technology; Osaka; Japan (1972)

PubMed=16664453; DOI=10.1104/pp.79.2.568; PMCID=PMC1074928
Gynheung An;
High efficiency transformation of cultured tobacco cells.
Plant Physiol. 79:568-570(1985)

DOI=10.1016/S0074-7696(08)62452-3
Toshiyuki Nagata, Yasuyuki Nemoto, Seiichiro Hasezawa;
Tobacco BY-2 cell line as the HeLa cell in the cell biology of higher plants.
Int. Rev. Cytol. 132:1-30(1992)

PubMed=7766897; DOI=10.1007/BF00020889
Shinya Matsumoto, Koji Ikura, Masatsugu Ueda, Ryuzo Sasaki;
Characterization of a human glycoprotein (erythropoietin) produced in cultured tobacco cells.
Plant Mol. Biol. 27:1163-1172(1995)

PubMed=10728644; DOI=10.1023/A:1009832822096
Toshiyuki Nagata, Fumi Kumagai;
Plant cell biology through the window of the highly synchronized tobacco BY-2 cell line.
Methods Cell Sci. 21:123-127(1999)

PubMed=12601177; DOI=10.1073/pnas.0438037100; PMCID=PMC151319
Punchapat Sojikul, Norene Buehner, Hugh S. Mason;
A plant signal peptide-hepatitis B surface antigen fusion protein with enhanced stability and immunogenicity expressed in plant cells.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100:2209-2214(2003)

PubMed=14680934; DOI=10.1016/j.pep.2003.07.004
Gujulla B. Sunil Kumar, Thumballi R. Ganapathi, Chaganti J. Revathi, K.S.N. Prasad, Vishwas A. Bapat;
Expression of hepatitis B surface antigen in tobacco cell suspension cultures.
Protein Expr. Purif. 32:10-17(2003)

PubMed=14688094; DOI=10.1128/IAI.72.1.168-175.2004; PMCID=PMC343997
Nicole A. Judge, Hugh S. Mason, Alison D. O'Brien;
Plant cell-based intimin vaccine given orally to mice primed with intimin reduces time of Escherichia coli O157:H7 shedding in feces.
Infect. Immun. 72:168-175(2004)

PubMed=15638240; DOI=10.1007/s11745-004-1289-0
Andrea Hemmerlin, Esther Gerber, Jean-Francois Feldtrauer, Laurent Wentzinger, Marie-Andree Hartmann, Denis Tritsch, Jean-Francois Hoeffler, Michel Rohmer, Thomas J. Bach;
A review of tobacco BY-2 cells as an excellent system to study the synthesis and function of sterols and other isoprenoids.
Lipids 39:723-735(2004)

PubMed=15818563; DOI=10.1002/bit.20441
Jian-Feng Xu, Elena Shpak, Ting-Yue Gu, Murray Moo-Young, Marcia J. Kieliszewski;
Production of recombinant plant gum with tobacco cell culture in bioreactor and gum characterization.
Biotechnol. Bioeng. 90:578-588(2005)

DOI=10.1007/3-540-32674-X_8
Jan Petrasek, Eva Zazimalova;
The BY-2 cell line as a tool to study auxin transport.
Biotechnol. Agric. For. 58:107-117(2006)

PubMed=16187337; DOI=10.1002/bit.20695
Xiu-Ren Zhang, Hugh S. Mason;
Bean yellow dwarf virus replicons for high-level transgene expression in transgenic plants and cell cultures.
Biotechnol. Bioeng. 93:271-279(2006)

PubMed=17406390; DOI=10.1038/nprot.2006.176
Kristin J. Mayo, Barbara J. Gonzales, Hugh S. Mason;
Genetic transformation of tobacco NT1 cells with Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
Nat. Protoc. 1:1105-1111(2006)

PubMed=17406517; DOI=10.1038/nprot.2006.381
Fumi Kumagai-Sano, Tomomi Hayashi, Toshio Sano, Seiichiro Hasezawa;
Cell cycle synchronization of tobacco BY-2 cells.
Nat. Protoc. 1:2621-2627(2006)

PubMed=17947977; DOI=10.1038/nprot.2007.360
Yan-Song Miao, Li-Wen Jiang;
Transient expression of fluorescent fusion proteins in protoplasts of suspension cultured cells.
Nat. Protoc. 2:2348-2353(2007)

PubMed=18567891; DOI=10.1093/pcp/pcn096
Tsubasa Shoji, Takashi Hashimoto;
Why does anatabine, but not nicotine, accumulate in jasmonate-elicited cultured tobacco BY-2 cells?
Plant Cell Physiol. 49:1209-1216(2008)

DOI=10.4067/S0718-07642010000200002
Leon F. Ruiz, Ana E. Higareda, Marco A. Pardo;
Synchronization of tobacco cells (Nicotiana tabacum) NT-1.
Inf. Tecnol. 21:3-11(2010)

PubMed=22055919; DOI=10.1016/j.jbiosc.2011.09.022
David Alexander Ullisch, Christina A. Muller, Sabrina Maibaum, Janina Kirchhoff, Andreas Schiermeyer, Stefan Schillberg, Jean L. Roberts, Wiltrud Treffenfeldt, Jochen Buchs;
Comprehensive characterization of two different Nicotiana tabacum cell lines leads to doubled GFP and HA protein production by media optimization.
J. Biosci. Bioeng. 113:242-248(2012)

PubMed=22928883; DOI=10.1080/03079457.2012.709606
Tim Miller, Matthew Fanton, Stephanie Nickelson, Hugh S. Mason, Steven Webb;
Safety and immunogenicity of bacterial and tobacco plant cell line derived recombinant native and mutant Escherichia coli heat-labile toxin in chickens.
Avian Pathol. 41:441-449(2012)

PubMed=29982119; DOI=10.1016/j.bios.2018.06.045
Richa Pandey, Orian Teig-Sussholz, Silvia Schuster, Adi Avni, Yosi Shacham-Diamand;
Integrated electrochemical Chip-on-Plant functional sensor for monitoring gene expression under stress.
Biosens. Bioelectron. 117:493-500(2018)

PubMed=37642778; DOI=10.1007/s10265-023-01490-4; PMCID=PMC10587202
Toshiyuki Nagata;
Hidden history of the tobacco BY-2 cell line.
J. Plant Res. 136:781-786(2023)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) DSMZ; PC-1181 - Discontinued
RIKEN_BRC_EPD; rpc00001
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0001972
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q7811455
Experimental variables resources EFO; EFO_0022754
Gene expression databases GEO; GSE6948
GEO; GSE6949
GEO; GSE14250
GEO; GSE37649
GEO; GSE42562
GEO; GSE111980
GEO; GSE160438
GEO; GSE193131
Entry history
Entry creation02-May-2024
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number4