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Cellosaurus publication CLPUB00207

Publication number CLPUB00207
Authors Bernhard H.P., Lienhard S., Reganass U.
Title Isolation and characterization of mutant Drosophila cell lines.
Citation (In) Invertebrate systems in vitro; Kurstak E., Maramorosch K., Dubendorfer A. (eds.); pp.13-26; Elsevier; Oxford (1980)
Web pages https://flybase.org/reports/FBrf0035336.html
Abstract Since the first successful establishment of Drosophila cell lines by Echalier and Ohanessian (1969) and Kakpakov et al. (1969), a large number of permanent Drosophila cell lines have been established by several groups but the collection of available cell lines is of limited genetic diversity (Schneider and Blumenthal 1978). We have established a set of 14 different cell lines that are derived from 10 well defined mutant Drosophila stocks. The mutants were selected with respect to cytologically recognizable marker chromosomes, allozyme variants, enzyme deficiencies, and conditional lethality. The mutant cell lines were demonstrated to express the respective mutant phenotypes at the cellular level and under in vitro conditions. Cell lines carrying genetic markers and conditional lethal mutations will prove useful for the isolation and identification of hybrid Drosophila cells following somatic cell fusion (Bernhard 1976). The conditional lethal cell lines will allow the study of in vitro mutagenesis by determining the reversion frequency of defined mutations under restrictive con-ditions. They provide further a critical and sensitive assay system to study possible transformation in eucaryotic cells by means of cloned gene sequences that might become available in the near future (Gehring 1978).
Cell lines CVCL_Z901; E-Adh-n1
CVCL_WK71; E-Aldox-n1
CVCL_Z893; E-CS
CVCL_Z902; E-E12[ts] mal[1]
CVCL_Z903; E-FM1
CVCL_Z904; E-mal[1]
CVCL_Z905; E-mal[F3]
CVCL_Z894; E-OR
CVCL_Z906; E-r[1]
CVCL_Z907; E-r[36]