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Cellosaurus U-138MG (CVCL_0020)

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Cell line name U-138MG
Synonyms U-138 MG; U-138-MG; U138-MG; U 138 MG; U138MG; U138; 138 MG; 138MG
Accession CVCL_0020
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: U-138MG (RRID:CVCL_0020)
Comments Part of: Cancer Dependency Map project (DepMap) (includes Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia - CCLE).
Population: Caucasian.
Doubling time: 47 hours (PubMed=9842975); ~70 hours (DSMZ=ACC-291).
Omics: CNV analysis.
Omics: Deep antibody staining analysis.
Omics: Deep exome analysis.
Omics: SNP array analysis.
Omics: Transcriptome analysis by microarray.
Omics: Transcriptome analysis by RNAseq.
Derived from site: In situ; Brain; UBERON=UBERON_0000955.
Sequence variations
  • Gene deletion; HGNC; 1787; CDKN2A; Zygosity=Homozygous (PubMed=9842975).
  • Mutation; HGNC; 5382; IDH1; None_reported; -; Zygosity=- (PubMed=19435942).
  • Mutation; HGNC; 9588; PTEN; Simple; c.1026+1G>T (IVS8+1G>T); ClinVar=VCV000635377; Zygosity=Homozygous; Note=Splice donor mutation (DepMap=ACH-001214).
  • Mutation; HGNC; 11998; TP53; Simple; p.Arg213Gln (c.638G>A); ClinVar=VCV000135359; Zygosity=Homozygous (PubMed=10416987; DepMap=ACH-001214).
Genome ancestry Source: PubMed=30894373

Origin% genome
African1.64
Native American0
East Asian, North1.56
East Asian, South0
South Asian0
European, North96.13
European, South0.67
Disease Astrocytoma (NCIt: C60781)
Astrocytoma (ORDO: Orphanet_94)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Children:
CVCL_0633 (U-118MG)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling 47Y
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): ATCC=HTB-16; CLS=300363; DSMZ=ACC-291; PubMed=22570425; PubMed=27582061

Markers:
AmelogeninX,Y
CSF1PO11,12 (PubMed=27582061)
12 (ATCC=HTB-16; CLS=300363; DSMZ=ACC-291; PubMed=22570425)
D2S133823,25
D3S135815
D5S81811
D7S8209
D8S117914,15
D13S3179,11
D16S53912,13
D18S5113
D19S43313
D21S1127,32.2
FGA18,23
Penta D9,13 (ATCC=HTB-16; CLS=300363; DSMZ=ACC-291; PubMed=22570425)
10,13 (PubMed=27582061)
Penta E7 (ATCC=HTB-16; CLS=300363; DSMZ=ACC-291; PubMed=22570425)
7,13 (PubMed=27582061)
TH016
TPOX8
vWA18

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Web pages https://www.atcc.org/en/support/technical-support/faqs/u-118-mg-atcc-htb-15-u-138-mg-atcc-htb-16
https://www.proteinatlas.org/learn/cellines
http://www.nibsc.org/Default.aspx?pageid=597&id=0028&theme=default
Publications

PubMed=4313504; DOI=10.1111/j.1699-0463.1968.tb03502.x
Ponten J., Macintyre E.H.
Long term culture of normal and neoplastic human glia.
Acta Pathol. Microbiol. Scand. 74:465-486(1968)

PubMed=4337530; DOI=10.1111/j.1699-0463.1972.tb02176.x
Macintyre E.H., Ponten J., Vatter A.E.
The ultrastructure of human and murine astrocytes and of human fibroblasts in culture.
Acta Pathol. Microbiol. Scand. A. 80:267-283(1972)

PubMed=4134536; DOI=10.1002/ijc.2910120215
Westermark B.
The deficient density-dependent growth control of human malignant glioma cells and virus-transformed glia-like cells in culture.
Int. J. Cancer 12:438-451(1973)

PubMed=4369403; DOI=10.1002/1097-0142(197408)34:2<274::AID-CNCR2820340209>3.0.CO;2-4
Wahlstrom T., Linder E., Saksela E., Westermark B.
Tumor-specific membrane antigens in established cell lines from gliomas.
Cancer 34:274-279(1974)

DOI=10.1007/978-1-4757-1647-4_7
Ponten J.
Neoplastic human glia cells in culture.
(In book chapter) Human tumor cells in vitro; Fogh J. (eds.); pp.175-206; Springer; New York; USA (1975)

PubMed=833871; DOI=10.1093/jnci/58.2.209
Fogh J., Wright W.C., Loveless J.D.
Absence of HeLa cell contamination in 169 cell lines derived from human tumors.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 58:209-214(1977)

PubMed=450131; DOI=10.1038/279797a0
Day R.S. 3rd, Ziolkowski C.H.J.
Human brain tumour cell strains with deficient host-cell reactivation of N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine-damaged adenovirus 5.
Nature 279:797-799(1979)

PubMed=22282976; DOI=10.1093/carcin/1.1.21
Day R.S. 3rd, Ziolkowski C.H.J., Scudiero D.A., Meyer S.A., Mattern M.R.
Human tumor cell strains defective in the repair of alkylation damage.
Carcinogenesis 1:21-32(1980)

PubMed=6260907; DOI=10.1097/00005072-198105000-00001
Bigner D.D., Bigner S.H., Ponten J., Westermark B., Mahaley M.S. Jr., Ruoslahti E., Herschman H., Eng L.F., Wikstrand C.J.
Heterogeneity of genotypic and phenotypic characteristics of fifteen permanent cell lines derived from human gliomas.
J. Neuropathol. Exp. Neurol. 40:201-229(1981)

PubMed=6220172
Dracopoli N.C., Fogh J.
Polymorphic enzyme analysis of cultured human tumor cell lines.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 70:469-476(1983)

PubMed=6582512; DOI=10.1073/pnas.81.2.568; PMCID=PMC344720
Mattes M.J., Cordon-Cardo C., Lewis J.L. Jr., Old L.J., Lloyd K.O.
Cell surface antigens of human ovarian and endometrial carcinoma defined by mouse monoclonal antibodies.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 81:568-572(1984)

PubMed=3518877; DOI=10.3109/07357908609038260
Fogh J.
Human tumor lines for cancer research.
Cancer Invest. 4:157-184(1986)

PubMed=3675803
Bigner S.H., Bjerkvig R., Laerum O.D., Muhlbaier L.H., Bigner D.D.
DNA content and chromosomes in permanent cultured cell lines derived from malignant human gliomas.
Anal. Quant. Cytol. Histol. 9:435-444(1987)

PubMed=2454731
Nister M., Libermann T.A., Betsholtz C., Pettersson M., Claesson-Welsh L., Heldin C.-H., Schlessinger J., Westermark B.
Expression of messenger RNAs for platelet-derived growth factor and transforming growth factor-alpha and their receptors in human malignant glioma cell lines.
Cancer Res. 48:3910-3918(1988)

DOI=10.1016/B978-0-12-333530-2.50005-8
Nister M., Westermark B.
Human glioma cell lines.
(In book chapter) Atlas of human tumor cell lines; Hay R.J., Park J.-G., Gazdar A.F. (eds.); pp.17-42; Academic Press; New York; USA (1994)

PubMed=9842975; DOI=10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19981218)79:6<640::AID-IJC15>3.0.CO;2-z
Weller M., Rieger J., Grimmel C., Van Meir E.G., De Tribolet N., Krajewski S., Reed J.C., von Deimling A., Dichgans J.
Predicting chemoresistance in human malignant glioma cells: the role of molecular genetic analyses.
Int. J. Cancer 79:640-644(1998)

PubMed=10416987; DOI=10.1111/j.1750-3639.1999.tb00536.x; PMCID=PMC8098486
Ishii N., Maier D., Merlo A., Tada M., Sawamura Y., Diserens A.-C., Van Meir E.G.
Frequent co-alterations of TP53, p16/CDKN2A, p14ARF, PTEN tumor suppressor genes in human glioma cell lines.
Brain Pathol. 9:469-479(1999)

PubMed=14614447; DOI=10.1038/sj.onc.1207198
Wischhusen J., Naumann U., Ohgaki H., Rastinejad F., Weller M.
CP-31398, a novel p53-stabilizing agent, induces p53-dependent and p53-independent glioma cell death.
Oncogene 22:8233-8245(2003)

PubMed=14655754; DOI=10.1111/j.1750-3639.2003.tb00479.x; PMCID=PMC8095903
Bahr O., Rieger J., Duffner F., Meyermann R., Weller M., Wick W.
P-glycoprotein and multidrug resistance-associated protein mediate specific patterns of multidrug resistance in malignant glioma cell lines, but not in primary glioma cells.
Brain Pathol. 13:482-494(2003)

PubMed=14961077; DOI=10.1038/sj.onc.1207244
Wang Y.-L., Zhu S.-J., Cloughesy T.F., Liau L.M., Mischel P.S.
p53 disruption profoundly alters the response of human glioblastoma cells to DNA topoisomerase I inhibition.
Oncogene 23:1283-1290(2004)

PubMed=16697959; DOI=10.1016/j.ccr.2006.03.030
Lee J., Kotliarova S., Kotliarov Y., Li A.-G., Su Q., Donin N.M., Pastorino S., Purow B.W., Christopher N., Zhang W., Park J.K., Fine H.A.
Tumor stem cells derived from glioblastomas cultured in bFGF and EGF more closely mirror the phenotype and genotype of primary tumors than do serum-cultured cell lines.
Cancer Cell 9:391-403(2006)

PubMed=17595512; DOI=10.1159/000104150
Rieger J., Frank B., Weller M., Wick W.
Mechanisms of resistance of human glioma cells to Apo2 ligand/TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand.
Cell. Physiol. Biochem. 20:23-34(2007)

PubMed=19365568; DOI=10.1371/journal.pone.0005209; PMCID=PMC2666263
Bax D.A., Little S.E., Gaspar N., Perryman L., Marshall L., Viana-Pereira M., Jones T.A., Williams R.D., Grigoriadis A., Vassal G., Workman P., Sheer D., Reis R.M., Pearson A.D.J., Hargrave D., Jones C.
Molecular and phenotypic characterisation of paediatric glioma cell lines as models for preclinical drug development.
PLoS ONE 4:E5209-E5209(2009)

PubMed=19435942; DOI=10.1215/15228517-2009-025; PMCID=PMC2743214
Ichimura K., Pearson D.M., Kocialkowski S., Backlund L.M., Chan R., Jones D.T.W., Collins V.P.
IDH1 mutations are present in the majority of common adult gliomas but rare in primary glioblastomas.
Neuro-oncol. 11:341-347(2009)

PubMed=20215515; DOI=10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-3458; PMCID=PMC2881662
Rothenberg S.M., Mohapatra G., Rivera M.N., Winokur D., Greninger P., Nitta M., Sadow P.M., Sooriyakumar G., Brannigan B.W., Ulman M.J., Perera R.M., Wang R., Tam A., Ma X.-J., Erlander M., Sgroi D.C., Rocco J.W., Lingen M.W., Cohen E.E.W., Louis D.N., Settleman J., Haber D.A.
A genome-wide screen for microdeletions reveals disruption of polarity complex genes in diverse human cancers.
Cancer Res. 70:2158-2164(2010)

PubMed=22460905; DOI=10.1038/nature11003; PMCID=PMC3320027
Barretina J.G., Caponigro G., Stransky N., Venkatesan K., Margolin A.A., Kim S., Wilson C.J., Lehar J., Kryukov G.V., Sonkin D., Reddy A., Liu M., Murray L., Berger M.F., Monahan J.E., Morais P., Meltzer J., Korejwa A., Jane-Valbuena J., Mapa F.A., Thibault J., Bric-Furlong E., Raman P., Shipway A., Engels I.H., Cheng J., Yu G.-Y.K., Yu J.-J., Aspesi P. Jr., de Silva M., Jagtap K., Jones M.D., Wang L., Hatton C., Palescandolo E., Gupta S., Mahan S., Sougnez C., Onofrio R.C., Liefeld T., MacConaill L.E., Winckler W., Reich M., Li N.-X., Mesirov J.P., Gabriel S.B., Getz G., Ardlie K., Chan V., Myer V.E., Weber B.L., Porter J., Warmuth M., Finan P., Harris J.L., Meyerson M.L., Golub T.R., Morrissey M.P., Sellers W.R., Schlegel R., Garraway L.A.
The Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia enables predictive modelling of anticancer drug sensitivity.
Nature 483:603-607(2012)

PubMed=22570425; DOI=10.1093/neuonc/nos072; PMCID=PMC3367844
Bady P., Diserens A.-C., Castella V., Kalt S., Heinimann K., Hamou M.-F., Delorenzi M., Hegi M.E.
DNA fingerprinting of glioma cell lines and considerations on similarity measurements.
Neuro-oncol. 14:701-711(2012)

PubMed=27582061; DOI=10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf6853
Allen M., Bjerke M., Edlund H., Nelander S., Westermark B.
Origin of the U87MG glioma cell line: good news and bad news.
Sci. Transl. Med. 8:354re3.1-354re3.4(2016)

PubMed=30894373; DOI=10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-18-2747; PMCID=PMC6445675
Dutil J., Chen Z.-H., Monteiro A.N.A., Teer J.K., Eschrich S.A.
An interactive resource to probe genetic diversity and estimated ancestry in cancer cell lines.
Cancer Res. 79:1263-1273(2019)

PubMed=31068700; DOI=10.1038/s41586-019-1186-3; PMCID=PMC6697103
Ghandi M., Huang F.W., Jane-Valbuena J., Kryukov G.V., Lo C.C., McDonald E.R. 3rd, Barretina J.G., Gelfand E.T., Bielski C.M., Li H.-X., Hu K., Andreev-Drakhlin A.Y., Kim J., Hess J.M., Haas B.J., Aguet F., Weir B.A., Rothberg M.V., Paolella B.R., Lawrence M.S., Akbani R., Lu Y.-L., Tiv H.L., Gokhale P.C., de Weck A., Mansour A.A., Oh C., Shih J., Hadi K., Rosen Y., Bistline J., Venkatesan K., Reddy A., Sonkin D., Liu M., Lehar J., Korn J.M., Porter D.A., Jones M.D., Golji J., Caponigro G., Taylor J.E., Dunning C.M., Creech A.L., Warren A.C., McFarland J.M., Zamanighomi M., Kauffmann A., Stransky N., Imielinski M., Maruvka Y.E., Cherniack A.D., Tsherniak A., Vazquez F., Jaffe J.D., Lane A.A., Weinstock D.M., Johannessen C.M., Morrissey M.P., Stegmeier F., Schlegel R., Hahn W.C., Getz G., Mills G.B., Boehm J.S., Golub T.R., Garraway L.A., Sellers W.R.
Next-generation characterization of the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia.
Nature 569:503-508(2019)

PubMed=33385022; DOI=10.1016/j.dib.2020.106643; PMCID=PMC7772531
de Sousa J.F., da Silva P., Serafim R.B., Nociti R.P., Moreira C.G., Silva W.A., Valente V.
RNA sequencing data of different grade astrocytoma cell lines.
Data Brief 34:106643.1-106643.13(2021)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) ATCC; HTB-16
BCRJ; 0239
CLS; 300363
DSMZ; ACC-291
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0009452
CLO; CLO_0009453
CLDB; cl4577
cancercelllines; CVCL_0020
Cell_Model_Passport; SIDM01192
DepMap; ACH-001214
DSMZCellDive; ACC-291
IGRhCellID; U138MG
LINCS_LDP; LCL-1359
Lonza; 104
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO:0002127
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN01821604
BioSample; SAMN01821668
BioSample; SAMN03472727
BioSample; SAMN10987758
CRISP screens repositories BioGRID_ORCS_Cell_line; 1536
Chemistry resources ChEMBL-Cells; CHEMBL4295387
ChEMBL-Targets; CHEMBL4296506
PharmacoDB; U138MG_1617_2019
PubChem_Cell_line; CVCL_0020
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54973513
Gene expression databases ArrayExpress; E-MTAB-38
GEO; GSM101673
GEO; GSM101674
GEO; GSM326234
GEO; GSM887719
GEO; GSM888813
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 755288
Cosmic; 850744
Cosmic; 1571920
Cosmic; 1610739
Cosmic; 1746952
Cosmic; 2060806
Cosmic; 2301555
Cosmic; 2302317
Cosmic; 2580917
Cosmic; 2701085
Progenetix; CVCL_0020
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update02-May-2024
Version number42