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Cellosaurus BTI-Tn-MG1 (CVCL_Z093)

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Cell line name BTI-Tn-MG1
Synonyms BTI-TN-MG1; BTI-TN-MG-1; Tn MG-1; MG1; BTI-Tn M; Tn M
Accession CVCL_Z093
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: BTI-Tn-MG1 (RRID:CVCL_Z093)
Comments Group: Insect cell line.
Group: Patented cell line.
Group: Recombinant protein production insect cell line.
Registration: International Depositary Authority, American Type Culture Collection (ATCC); CRL-10860.
Doubling time: 20 hours (PubMed=21667340).
Derived from site: In situ; Midgut; UBERON=UBERON_0001045.
Species of origin Trichoplusia ni (Cabbage looper) (NCBI Taxonomy: 7111)
Hierarchy Children:
CVCL_UF21 (MG1-ht33)CVCL_UF22 (MG1-ht35)
Sex of cell Sex unspecified
Age at sampling Fifth instar larval stage
Category Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Publications

PubMed=1369220; DOI=10.1021/bp00017a003
Thomas J. Wickham, Thomas R. Davis, Robert R. Granados, Michael Louis Shuler, H. Alan Wood;
Screening of insect cell lines for the production of recombinant proteins and infectious virus in the baculovirus expression system.
Biotechnol. Prog. 8:391-396(1992)

PubMed=8314732; DOI=10.1007/BF02633986
Thomas R. Davis, Thomas J. Wickham, Kevin A. McKenna, Robert R. Granados, Michael Louis Shuler, H. Alan Wood;
Comparative recombinant protein production of eight insect cell lines.
In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. Anim. 29:388-390(1993)

Patent=US5300435
Robert R. Granados;
Trichoplusia ni cell line which supports replication of other baculoviruses.
Patent number US5300435, 05-Apr-1994

PubMed=21667340; DOI=10.1007/s12250-011-3177-x; PMCID=PMC8222434
Yan-Lei Wu, Lei Jiang, Yoshifumi Hashimoto, Robert R. Granados, Guo-Xun Li;
Establishment, growth kinetics, and susceptibility to AcMNPV of heat tolerant lepidopteran cell lines.
Virol. Sin. 26:198-205(2011)

Cross-references
Cell line databases/resources ICLDB; bti-tn-mg1
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54798602
Entry history
Entry creation10-Apr-2015
Last entry update14-Aug-2025
Version number14