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Cellosaurus HeLa VST (CVCL_F0JA)

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Cell line name HeLa VST
Synonyms HeLa Very Short Telomere
Accession CVCL_F0JA
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: HeLa VST (RRID:CVCL_F0JA)
Comments Population: African American.
Characteristics: Has very short telomeres (~4 kb) (PubMed=24413054).
Transformant: NCBI_TaxID; 333761; Human papillomavirus type 18 (HPV18).
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_B5D9 (HeLa1.2.11)
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling 30Y6M
Category Cancer cell line
Publications

PubMed=24413054; DOI=10.1038/nsmb.2754; PMCID=PMC3946341
Roderick J. O'Sullivan, Nausica Arnoult, Daniel H. Lackner, Liana Oganesian, Candy I. Haggblom, Armelle Corpet, Genevieve Almouzni, Jan Karlseder;
Rapid induction of alternative lengthening of telomeres by depletion of the histone chaperone ASF1.
Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 21:167-174(2014)

Entry history
Entry creation14-Aug-2025
Last entry update14-Aug-2025
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