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Cellosaurus Namalwa.KN2 (CVCL_1840)

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Cell line name Namalwa.KN2
Synonyms NAMALWA.KN2; Namalwa KN2; KN2
Accession CVCL_1840
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: Namalwa.KN2 (RRID:CVCL_1840)
Comments Population: African; Kenyan.
Virology: Contains 2 integrated copies of EBV genome on chromosome 1.
Virology: Infected by squirrel monkey retrovirus (SMRV) (PubMed=1339415; PubMed=20454443).
Transformant: NCBI_TaxID; 10376; Epstein-Barr virus (EBV).
Cell type: B-cell; CL=CL_0000236.
Sequence variations
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:11998; TP53; Simple; p.Arg248Gln (c.743G>A); ClinVar=VCV000012356; Zygosity=Homozygous (from parent cell line).
Disease EBV-related Burkitt lymphoma (NCIt: C27694)
Burkitt lymphoma (ORDO: Orphanet_543)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Parent: CVCL_0067 (Namalwa)
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling Children
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): DSMZ=ACC-68

Markers:
AmelogeninX
CSF1PO10,11
D2S133817,21
D3S135816
D5S81812,13
D7S82011
D8S117913,15
D13S31712
D16S5399
D18S5115
D19S43314,18
D21S1127,28
FGA22
Penta D8,13
Penta E5,15
TH017,9.3
TPOX6,11
vWA14

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Web pages http://www.cells-talk.com/index.php/page/copelibrary?key=KN2
Publications

PubMed=3026962; PMCID=PMC1453332
Guy K., Middleton P.G., Docherty L.J.M., De Angelis C.L., Steel C.M.
MHC class II antigen and immunoglobulin expression in spontaneous phenotypic variants of the Burkitt's lymphoma cell line Namalwa.
Immunology 59:603-610(1986)

PubMed=2298494; DOI=10.1002/ijc.2910450120
Guy K., Middleton P.G., Bansal N.S., Ross J.A., Steel C.M.
Recurrent mutation of immunoglobulin and c-myc genes and differential expression of cell surface antigens occur in variant cell lines derived from a Burkitt lymphoma.
Int. J. Cancer 45:109-118(1990)

PubMed=1339415; DOI=10.1002/ijc.2910520320
Middleton P.G., Miller S., Ross J.A., Steel C.M., Guy K.
Insertion of SMRV-H viral DNA at the c-myc gene locus of a BL cell line and presence in established cell lines.
Int. J. Cancer 52:451-454(1992)

PubMed=20454443; DOI=10.1155/2010/904767; PMCID=PMC2861168
Uphoff C.C., Denkmann S.A., Steube K.G., Drexler H.G.
Detection of EBV, HBV, HCV, HIV-1, HTLV-I and -II, and SMRV in human and other primate cell lines.
J. Biomed. Biotechnol. 2010:904767.1-904767.23(2010)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) DSMZ; ACC-68
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0007942
CLDB; cl3640
cancercelllines; CVCL_1840
DSMZCellDive; ACC-68
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN03473433
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54907454
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update19-Dec-2024
Version number25