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Cellosaurus HuWa-TERT (CVCL_UJ99)

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Cell line name HuWa-TERT
Synonyms HuWaTERT1; HuWaTERT
Accession CVCL_UJ99
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: HuWa-TERT (RRID:CVCL_UJ99)
Comments Group: Endangered species/breed cell line.
Group: Cetacean cell line.
Doubling time: 25 hours (PubMed=30627956).
Genetic integration: Method=Transfection; Gene=HGNC; HGNC:11730; TERT.
Genetic integration: Method=Transfection; Gene=UniProtKB; P13249; Streptomyces alboniger pac (PuroR).
Derived from site: In situ; Skin; UBERON=UBERON_0002097.
Cell type: Fibroblast of skin; CL=CL_0002620.
Species of origin Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback whale) (Balaena novaeangliae) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9773)
Hierarchy Parent: CVCL_4U66 (HuWa1)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling 1-2Y
Category Telomerase immortalized cell line
Publications

DOI=10.25904/1912/492
Michael Burkard;
Humpback whale cell lines as an in vitro tool for toxicity assessment.
Thesis PhD (2017); Griffith University; Brisbane; Australia

PubMed=30627956; DOI=10.1007/s10565-018-09457-1; PMCID=PMC6757015
Michael Burkard, Susan M. Bengtson Nash, Gessica Gambaro, Deanne J. Whitworth, Kristin Schirmer;
Lifetime extension of humpback whale skin fibroblasts and their response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and a mixture of polychlorinated biphenyls (Aroclor).
Cell Biol. Toxicol. 35:387-398(2019)

PubMed=35540658; DOI=10.1039/c9ra05352b; PMCID=PMC9076109
Jenny Maner, Michael Burkard, Juan Carlos Cassano, Susan M. Bengtson Nash, Kristin Schirmer, Marc Jean-Frederic Suter;
Hexachlorobenzene exerts genotoxic effects in a humpback whale cell line under stable exposure conditions.
RSC Adv. 9:39447-39457(2019)

Cross-references
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q94309834
Entry history
Entry creation25-Feb-2019
Last entry update14-Aug-2025
Version number11