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Cellosaurus MCF-7:WS8 (CVCL_D5YA)

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Cell line name MCF-7:WS8
Accession CVCL_D5YA
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: MCF-7:WS8 (RRID:CVCL_D5YA)
Comments Population: Caucasian.
Characteristics: Highly sensitive to estrogen-stimulated growth.
Genetic integration: Method=Transfection/transduction; Gene=UniProtKB; P00552; Klebsiella pneumoniae transposon Tn5 neo.
Genetic integration: Method=Transfection/transduction; Gene=UniProtKB; P08659; Photinus pyralis firefly-type luciferase.
Derived from site: Metastatic; Pleural effusion; UBERON=UBERON_0000175.
Sequence variations
  • Gene deletion; HGNC; HGNC:1787; CDKN2A; Zygosity=Homozygous (from parent cell line).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:4172; GATA3; Simple; p.Asp336Glyfs*17 (c.1006dupG); Zygosity=Heterozygous (from parent cell line).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:8975; PIK3CA; Simple; p.Glu545Lys (c.1633G>A); ClinVar=VCV000013655; Zygosity=Heterozygous (from parent cell line).
Disease Invasive breast carcinoma of no special type (NCIt: C4194)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Parent: CVCL_0031 (MCF-7)
Children:
CVCL_D5YB (MCF-7 1403)
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling 69Y
Category Cancer cell line
Publications

PubMed=8600466; DOI=10.1093/nar/24.5.962; PMCID=PMC145723
John J. Pink, Shi-Qi Wu, Douglas M. Wolf, Malcolm Maherji Bilimoria, Virgil Craig Jordan;
A novel 80 kDa human estrogen receptor containing a duplication of exons 6 and 7.
Nucleic Acids Res. 24:962-969(1996)

PubMed=15862958; DOI=10.1016/j.jsbmb.2004.12.032
Joan S. Lewis-Wambi, Clodia Osipo, Kathleen Meeke, Virgil Craig Jordan;
Estrogen-induced apoptosis in a breast cancer model resistant to long-term estrogen withdrawal.
J. Steroid Biochem. Mol. Biol. 94:131-141(2005)

PubMed=24604139; DOI=10.3892/ijo.2014.2329; PMCID=PMC4144033
Elizabeth E. Sweeney, Ping Fan, Virgil Craig Jordan;
Mechanisms underlying differential response to estrogen-induced apoptosis in long-term estrogen-deprived breast cancer cells.
Int. J. Oncol. 44:1529-1538(2014)

Cross-references
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q127382749
Entry history
Entry creation02-May-2024
Last entry update14-Aug-2025
Version number4