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Cellosaurus Melan-b (CVCL_VS23)

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Cell line name Melan-b
Synonyms melan-b
Accession CVCL_VS23
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: Melan-b (RRID:CVCL_VS23)
Comments Derived from site: In situ; Skin; UBERON=UBERON_0002097.
Cell type: Melanocyte of skin; CL=CL_1000458.
Sequence variations
  • Mutation; MGI; MGI:98881; Tyrp1; Simple; p.Cys110Tyr; Zygosity=Homozygous (from inference of genetic background of Brown mice).
Species of origin Mus musculus (Mouse) (NCBI Taxonomy: 10090)
Breed/subspecies: Q.
Hierarchy Children:
CVCL_VS29 (Melan-b-HmR)
Sex of cell Sex unspecified
Age at sampling Embryo
Category Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Publications

PubMed=2806130; DOI=10.1242/dev.105.2.379
Dorothy Catherine Bennett, Philip J. Cooper, Tim J. Dexter, Linda M. Devlin, Janet Heasman, Barry Nester;
Cloned mouse melanocyte lines carrying the germline mutations albino and brown: complementation in culture.
Development 105:379-385(1989)

PubMed=1562463; DOI=10.1038/bjc.1992.110; PMCID=PMC1977561
William F. Wakeling, Jonathan Greetham, Linda M. Devlin, Dorothy Catherine Bennett;
Suppression of properties associated with malignancy in murine melanoma-melanocyte hybrid cells.
Br. J. Cancer 65:529-537(1992)

Cross-references
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q95988721
Entry history
Entry creation25-Feb-2019
Last entry update02-May-2024
Version number7