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Cellosaurus BM-N (CVCL_Z633)

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Cell line name BM-N
Synonyms Bm N; BmN; BMN; BmN(1)
Accession CVCL_Z633
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: BM-N (RRID:CVCL_Z633)
Comments Group: Insect cell line.
Group: Recombinant protein production insect cell line.
Registration: International Depositary Authority, American Type Culture Collection (ATCC); CRL-8910.
Biotechnology: Used for the production of the VirBac Virbagen Omega, a recombinant cat alpha-inteferon used in veterinary medicine to treat cats infected with feline leukemia virus (FeLV) and/or feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) infections.
Virology: Infected by Bombyx mori macula-like latent virus (BmMLV).
Omics: Proteomics.
Derived from site: In situ; Ovary; UBERON=UBERON_0000992.
Species of origin Bombyx mori (Silk moth) (NCBI Taxonomy: 7091)
Hierarchy Children:
CVCL_Z634 (BmN4)
Sex of cell Female
Category Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Web pages Info; EMA; -; https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/scientific-discussion/virbagen-omega-epar-scientific-discussion_en.pdf
Publications

PubMed=16346059; DOI=10.1128/AEM.44.1.227-233.1982; PMCID=PMC241993
Loy E. Volkman, Phyllis A. Goldsmith;
Generalized immunoassay for Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus infectivity in vitro.
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 44:227-233(1982)

DOI=10.11416/kontyushigen1930.53.547
Susumu Maeda;
A plaque assay and cloning of Bombyx mori nuclear polyhedrosis virus.
J. Seric. Sci. Jpn. 53:547-548(1984)

PubMed=2989694; DOI=10.1038/315592a0
Susumu Maeda, Takashi Kawai, Masuo Obinata, Hiroyuki Fujiwara, Tadashi Horiuchi, Yoshiyuki Saeki, Yoshinari Sato, Mitsuru Furusawa;
Production of human alpha-interferon in silkworm using a baculovirus vector.
Nature 315:592-594(1985)

CLPUB00498
Osamu Ninaki, Naoko Takada, Haruhiko Fujiwara, Teru Ogura, Naoko Miyajima, Akihiko Kiyota, Hideaki Maekawa;
Gene analysis by blot hybridization on the silkworm, Bombyx mori, cell lines.
(In book chapter) Invertebrate cell system applications, Vol. I; Mitsuhashi, Jun (eds.); pp.143-149; CRC Press; Boca Raton; USA (1989)

PubMed=8799737; DOI=10.1111/j.1365-2583.1996.tb00053.x
Arthur H. McIntosh, James J. Grasela, Robert L. Matteri;
Identification of insect cell lines by DNA amplification fingerprinting (DAF).
Insect Mol. Biol. 5:187-195(1996)

PubMed=10777062; DOI=10.1290/1071-2690(2000)036<0205:EOTGFP>2.0.CO;2
James J. Grasela, Arthur H. McIntosh, Cynthia Lenz Goodman, Louise E. Wilson, Leslie A. King;
Expression of the green fluorescent protein carried by Autographa californica multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus in insect cell lines.
In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. Anim. 36:205-210(2000)

PubMed=16409117; DOI=10.1290/0412083R.1
Arthur H. McIntosh, James J. Grasela, Holly J.R. Popham;
AcMNPV in permissive, semipermissive, and nonpermissive cell lines from Arthropoda.
In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. Anim. 41:298-304(2005)

PubMed=19496755; DOI=10.1042/BSR20090045
Hui-Peng Yao, Lin Chen, Xing-Wei Xiang, Ai-Qin Guo, Xing-Meng Lu, Xiao-Feng Wu;
Proteomics identification and annotation of proteins of a cell line of Bombyx mori, BmN cells.
Biosci. Rep. 30:209-215(2010)

PubMed=29133148; DOI=10.1016/j.pep.2017.11.002; PMCID=PMC5826799
Christoph Geisler, Donald L. Jarvis;
Adventitious viruses in insect cell lines used for recombinant protein expression.
Protein Expr. Purif. 144:25-32(2018)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) ATCC; CRL-8910
NISES; SK0010
RCB; RCB0457
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0002008
CLO; CLO_0051457
CLDB; cl467
ICLDB; bmn
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0001267
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54797447
Entry history
Entry creation10-Apr-2015
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number19