Cellosaurus cell line BM-21E-HNU5 (CVCL

Cellosaurus BM-21E-HNU5 (CVCL_Z569)

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Cell line name	BM-21E-HNU5
Synonyms	Bm-21E-HNU5; Bm-e-HNU5; Bm-21E
Accession	CVCL_Z569
Resource Identification Initiative	To cite this cell line use: BM-21E-HNU5 (RRID:CVCL_Z569)
Comments	Group: Insect cell line. Doubling time: 48 hours (CelloPub=CLPUB00535). Derived from site: In situ; Whole embryo; UBERON=UBERON_0000922.
Species of origin	Bombyx mori (Silk moth) (NCBI Taxonomy: 7091) Breed/subspecies: Huahe 671 Dongfei.
Sex of cell	Sex unspecified
Age at sampling	Embryonic stage
Category	Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Publications	CLPUB00535 Qin-Hui Chen, Lu-Lin Li, Zhe-Hua Yu, Jian-Xin Peng; Establishment of cell line from embryos of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. (In book chapter) Invertebrate and fish tissue culture; Kuroda, Yukiaki & Kurstak, Edouard & Maramorosch, Karl (eds.); pp.259-261; Japan Sci. Soc.; Tokyo; Japan (1988) DOI=10.19603/j.cnki.1000-1190.1991.04.021 Lu-Lin Li, Zhe-Hua Yu, Jian-Xin Peng, Qu-Hou Chen; Characterization of BM-21E-HNU5, a cell line from embryos of Bombyx mori. Hua Zhong Shi Fan Da Xue Xue Bao. Zi Ran Ke Xue Ban 25:469-473(1991) DOI=10.19603/j.cnki.1000-1190.1995.04.025 Lu-Lin Li, Qu-Hou Chen; Storage of insect cell lines by a simple method. Hua Zhong Shi Fan Da Xue Xue Bao. Zi Ran Ke Xue Ban 29:511-512(1995) DOI=10.3923/jas.2007.4040.4043 Sadeq Khalid Nessr Alhag, Han-Chao Yao, Jian-Xin Peng; Identification of insect cell lines from 8 lepidopteran species by DNA amplification fingerprinting. J. Appl. Sci. 7:4040-4044(2007)
Cell line databases/resources	ICLDB; bm-21e-hnu5
Encyclopedic resources	Wikidata; Q54797441
Entry history
Entry creation	10-Apr-2015
Last entry update	14-Aug-2025
Version number	11