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Cellosaurus KB-ChR-8 (CVCL_E3EU)

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Cell line name KB-ChR-8
Synonyms KB-8
Accession CVCL_E3EU
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: KB-ChR-8 (RRID:CVCL_E3EU)
Comments Problematic cell line: Contaminated. Ancestral cell line (KB) has been shown to be a HeLa derivative.
Population: African American.
Selected for resistance to: ChEBI; CHEBI_23359; Colchicine.
Transformant: NCBI_TaxID; 333761; Human papillomavirus type 18 (HPV18).
Transformant: ChEBI; CHEBI_23994; Ethyl methanesulfonate (Methylsulfonic acid ethyl ester; MSEE).
Derived from site: In situ; Uterus, cervix; UBERON=UBERON_0000002.
Disease Human papillomavirus-related endocervical adenocarcinoma (NCIt: C27677)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Parent: CVCL_2088 (KB-3-1)
Children:
CVCL_5994 (KB-ChR-8-5)
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling 30Y6M
Category Cancer cell line
Publications

PubMed=3711108; DOI=10.1016/S0021-9258(19)57466-X
Ding-Wu Shen, Carol O. Cardarelli, Jaulang Hwang, Marilyn Cornwell, Nancy Richert, Shunsuke Ishii, Ira Pastan, Michael Marc Gottesman;
Multiple drug-resistant human KB carcinoma cells independently selected for high-level resistance to colchicine, adriamycin, or vinblastine show changes in expression of specific proteins.
J. Biol. Chem. 261:7762-7770(1986)

PubMed=2897240; DOI=10.1016/0092-8674(88)90568-5
Kyunghee Choi, Chang-Jie Chen, Michael Kriegler, Igor B. Roninson;
An altered pattern of cross-resistance in multidrug-resistant human cells results from spontaneous mutations in the mdr1 (P-glycoprotein) gene.
Cell 53:519-529(1988)

Entry history
Entry creation19-Dec-2024
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number2