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Cellosaurus mbn-2 (CVCL_Z706)

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Cell line name mbn-2
Synonyms Mbn-2; mbn2; l(2)mbn; L(2)mbn; Blood II; BII
Accession CVCL_Z706
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: mbn-2 (RRID:CVCL_Z706)
Comments Group: Insect cell line.
Part of: modENCODE project cell lines.
Doubling time: 54 hours (DGRC=147).
Omics: Transcriptomics; RNAseq.
Species of origin Drosophila melanogaster (Fruit fly) (NCBI Taxonomy: 7227)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling Larval stage
Category Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Publications

CLPUB00202
Elisabeth Gateff, Lutz Gissmann, Roshana Shrestha, Nadine Plus, Hedi Pfister, J. Schroder, Harald zur Hausen;
Characterization of two tumorous blood cell lines of Drosophila melanogaster and the viruses they contain.
(In book chapter) Invertebrate systems in vitro; Kurstak, Edouard & Maramorosch, Karl & Dubendorfer, Andreas (eds.); pp.517-533; Elsevier; Oxford; United Kingdom (1980)

CLPUB00496
Walter Frederic Hink;
The 1979 compilation of invertebrate cell lines and culture media.
(In book chapter) Invertebrate systems in vitro; Kurstak, Edouard & Maramorosch, Karl & Dubendorfer, Andreas (eds.); pp.553-578; Elsevier; Oxford; United Kingdom (1980)

DOI=10.1002/arch.940020307
Laurence Dinan;
Ecdysteroid receptors in a tumorous blood cell line of Drosophila melanogaster.
Arch. Insect Biochem. Physiol. 2:295-317(1985)

PubMed=1445351; DOI=10.1016/0006-291X(92)91354-S
Christos Samakovlis, Bengt Asling, Hans Gustaf Boman, Elisabeth Gateff, Dan Hultmark;
In vitro induction of cecropin genes -- an immune response in a Drosophila blood cell line.
Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 188:1169-1175(1992)

DOI=10.1016/B978-012229460-0/50004-X
Guy Echalier;
Drosophila continuous cell lines.
(In book chapter) Drosophila cells in culture; Echalier, Guy (eds.); pp.129-186; Academic Press; New York; USA (1997)

PubMed=17890361; DOI=10.1534/genetics.107.076356; PMCID=PMC2013714
Benjamin R. Williams, Jack R. Bateman, Natasha D. Novikov, C.-Ting Wu;
Disruption of topoisomerase II perturbs pairing in Drosophila cell culture.
Genetics 177:31-46(2007)

PubMed=21177962; DOI=10.1101/gr.112961.110; PMCID=PMC3032933
Lucy Cherbas, Aarron Willingham, Da-Yu Zhang, Li Yang, Yi Zou, Brian D. Eads, Joseph W. Carlson, Jane M. Landolin, Philipp Kapranov, Jacqueline Dumais, Anastasia Samsonova ...Show all 33 authors... , Jeong-Hyeon Choi, Johnny Roberts, Carrie A. Davis, Hai-Xu Tang, Marijke J. van Baren, Srinka Ghosh, Alexander Dobin, Kim Bell, Wei Lin, Laura Langton, Michael O. Duff, Aaron E. Tenney, Chris Zaleski, Michael R. Brent, Roger A. Hoskins, Thomas Charles Kaufman, Justen Andrews, Brenton R. Graveley, Norbert Perrimon, Susan E. Celniker, Thomas Raymond Gingeras, Peter Cherbas; Show fewer authors
The transcriptional diversity of 25 Drosophila cell lines.
Genome Res. 21:301-314(2011)

PubMed=24434506; DOI=10.1016/j.ymeth.2014.01.006; PMCID=PMC4048767
Lucy Cherbas, Lei Gong;
Cell lines.
Methods 68:74-81(2014)

PubMed=24985917; DOI=10.1101/gr.161554.113; PMCID=PMC4079977
Jia-Yu Wen, Jaaved Mohammed, Diane Bortolamiol-Becet, Harrison Tsai, Nicolas Robine, Jakub Orzechowski Westholm, Erik Ladewig, Qi Dai, Katsutomo Okamura, Alex S. Flynt, Da-Yu Zhang ...Show all 17 authors... , Justen Andrews, Lucy Cherbas, Thomas Charles Kaufman, Peter Cherbas, Adam C. Siepel, Eric C. Lai; Show fewer authors
Diversity of miRNAs, siRNAs, and piRNAs across 25 Drosophila cell lines.
Genome Res. 24:1236-1250(2014)

PubMed=25262759; DOI=10.1186/gb-2014-15-8-r70; PMCID=PMC4289277
Hangnoh Lee, C. Joel McManus, Dong-Yeon Cho, Matthew Eaton, Fioranna Renda, Maria Patrizia Somma, Lucy Cherbas, Gemma May, Sara Powell, Da-Yu Zhang, Li-Jun Zhan ...Show all 20 authors... , Alissa Resch, Justen Andrews, Susan E. Celniker, Peter Cherbas, Teresa Maria Przytycka, Maurizio Gatti, Brian Oliver, Brenton R. Graveley, David MacAlpine; Show fewer authors
DNA copy number evolution in Drosophila cell lines.
Genome Biol. 15:R70.1-R70.20(2014)

PubMed=26772746; DOI=10.1534/g3.115.023366; PMCID=PMC4777130
Marcus Stoiber, Susan E. Celniker, Lucy Cherbas, Ben Brown, Peter Cherbas;
Diverse hormone response networks in 41 independent Drosophila cell lines.
G3 (Bethesda) 6:683-694(2016)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) DGRC; 147
Cell line databases/resources FlyBase_Cell_line; FBtc0000147
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0001898
Biological sample resources ENCODE; ENCBS358WCU
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54904153
Experimental variables resources EFO; EFO_0005820
Entry history
Entry creation10-Apr-2015
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number14