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Cellosaurus EB4 (CVCL_W738)

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Cell line name EB4
Synonyms EB-4; Epstein-Barr-4
Accession CVCL_W738
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: EB4 (RRID:CVCL_W738)
Comments Population: Caucasian; British.
Doubling time: 24 hours (PubMed=5922251).
Transformant: NCBI_TaxID; 10376; Epstein-Barr virus (EBV).
Cell type: B-cell; CL=CL_0000236.
Disease EBV-related Burkitt lymphoma (NCIt: C27694)
Burkitt lymphoma (ORDO: Orphanet_543)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling 15Y
Category Cancer cell line
Publications

PubMed=5922251; DOI=10.1038/bjc.1966.58; PMCID=PMC2007999
Michael Anthony Epstein, Yvonne Margaret Barr, Bert Geoffrey Achong;
Preliminary observations on new lymphoblast strains (EB4, EB5) from Burkitt tumours in a British and a Ugandan patient.
Br. J. Cancer 20:475-479(1966)

PubMed=6074691; DOI=10.1038/bjc.1967.79; PMCID=PMC2008180
Nutan Persaud Bishun, Richard N.P. Sutton;
Cytogenetic and other studies on the EB4 line of Burkitt tumour cells.
Br. J. Cancer 21:675-678(1967)

PubMed=7316467; DOI=10.1111/j.1469-1809.1980.tb00953.x
Susan Povey, Stephen Jeremiah, Elizabeth Arthur, Michael Steel, George Klein;
Differences in genetic stability between human cell lines from patients with and without lymphoreticular malignancy.
Ann. Hum. Genet. 44:119-133(1980)

PubMed=2998993
Christopher Michael Steel, John E.N. Morten, E. Foster;
The cytogenetics of human B lymphoid malignancy: studies in Burkitt's lymphoma and Epstein-Barr virus-transformed lymphoblastoid cell lines.
IARC Sci. Publ. 60:265-292(1985)

PubMed=3923440; DOI=10.1093/nar/13.8.2931; PMCID=PMC341205
Margaret L.M. Anderson, Lisha Brown, Eddie McKenzie, John E. Kellow, Bryan D. Young;
Cloning and sequence analysis of an Ig lambda light chain mRNA expressed in the Burkitt's lymphoma cell line EB4.
Nucleic Acids Res. 13:2931-2941(1985)

Cross-references
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54831751
Entry history
Entry creation17-Jul-2014
Last entry update02-May-2024
Version number12