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Cellosaurus MT-2 (CVCL_2631)

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Cell line name MT-2
Synonyms MT2; MT-2J; MT-2Org
Accession CVCL_2631
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: MT-2 (RRID:CVCL_2631)
Comments Population: Japanese.
Characteristics: Was established by co-cultivation of cells from a 45 year old female T-cell leukemia patient with cord leukocytes from a male infant (CelloPub=CLPUB00542).
Virology: HTLV-1 producing cell line. Contains 11 integrated HTLV-1 proviruses: one complete proviral genome, six copies of a provirus with an internal deletion of 5.3 kb, one copy of a provirus with an internal deletion of 3.9 kb, one copy of a provirus with a 6.2 kB deletion from 5'LTR to position 6257 and two copies of a provirus composed of LTR only.
Virology: Susceptible to infection by hepatitis C virus (HCV) (PubMed=7832798).
Transformant: NCBI_TaxID; 11908; Human T-lymphotropic virus 1 (HTLV-1).
Derived from site: In situ; Umbilical cord blood; UBERON=UBERON_0012168.
Cell type: Regulatory T-cell; CL=CL_0000815.
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Children:
CVCL_0D79 (CB58/MT2)CVCL_0D80 (CB59/MT2)CVCL_C0YR (MT-2CB1)
CVCL_C0YS (MT-2CR1)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling <1D
Category Transformed cell line
STR profile Source(s): JCRB=JCRB1210; PubMed=28357668

Markers:
AmelogeninX,Y
CSF1PO10,11
D3S135816,17
D5S81813
D7S8208,13
D8S117911,14
D13S3179,13
D16S5399,11
D18S5112,14
D21S1129,30
FGA23,24
Penta D10,11
Penta E15,16
TH016,10
TPOX10,11
vWA16

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Web pages https://www.thermofisher.com/ch/en/home/technical-resources/cell-lines/m/cell-lines-detail-576.html
Publications

PubMed=6275274; DOI=10.1038/294770a0
Miyoshi I., Kubonishi I., Yoshimoto S., Akagi T., Ohtsuki Y., Shiraishi Y., Nagata K., Hinuma Y.
Type C virus particles in a cord T-cell line derived by co-cultivating normal human cord leukocytes and human leukaemic T cells.
Nature 294:770-771(1981)

PubMed=6281119
Miyoshi I., Kubonishi I., Yoshimoto S., Shiraishi Y.
A T-cell line derived from normal human cord leukocytes by co-culturing with human leukemic T-cells.
Gann 72:978-981(1981)

CLPUB00542
Miyoshi I., Taguchi H., Kubonishi I., Yoshimoto S., Ohtsuki Y., Shiraishi Y., Akagi T.
Type C virus-producing cell lines derived from adult T cell leukemia.
Gann Monogr. Cancer Res. 28:219-228(1982)

PubMed=6198871; DOI=10.18926/AMO/32400
Oda T., Watanabe S., Nakamura T.
Type C virus particles produced in human T-cell lines derived from acute lymphoblastic leukemia and a leukemic T-lymphoid malignancy.
Acta Med. Okayama 37:529-533(1983)

PubMed=2985879; DOI=10.1016/0145-2126(85)90084-0
Drexler H.G., Gaedicke G., Minowada J.
Isoenzyme studies in human leukemia-lymphoma cell lines -- 1 carboxylic esterase.
Leuk. Res. 9:209-229(1985)

PubMed=3001699; DOI=10.1073/pnas.82.24.8359; PMCID=PMC390915
Kiyokawa T., Seiki M., Iwashita S., Imagawa K., Shimizu F., Yoshida M.
p27x-III and p21x-III, proteins encoded by the pX sequence of human T-cell leukemia virus type I.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 82:8359-8363(1985)

PubMed=3159941; DOI=10.1016/0145-2126(85)90134-1
Drexler H.G., Gaedicke G., Minowada J.
Isoenzyme studies in human leukemia-lymphoma cell lines -- III Beta-hexosaminidase (E.C. 3.2.1.30).
Leuk. Res. 9:549-559(1985)

PubMed=3874327; DOI=10.1016/0145-2126(85)90133-x
Drexler H.G., Gaedicke G., Minowada J.
Isoenzyme studies in human leukemia-lymphoma cells lines -- II. Acid phosphatase.
Leuk. Res. 9:537-548(1985)

PubMed=3003193; DOI=10.4049/jimmunol.136.4.1322
Lee J.C., Rebar L., Young P., Ruscetti F.W., Hanna N., Poste G.
Identification and characterization of a human T cell line-derived lymphokine with MAF-like activity distinct from interferon-gamma.
J. Immunol. 136:1322-1328(1986)

PubMed=1765142; DOI=10.1016/0014-5793(91)81402-t
Orita S., Saiga A., Takagi S., Tanaka T., Okumura K., Aono Y., Hinuma Y., Igarashi H.
A novel alternatively spliced viral mRNA transcribed in cells infected with human T cell leukemia virus type 1 is mainly responsible for expressing p21X protein.
FEBS Lett. 295:127-134(1991)

PubMed=7662981; DOI=10.1182/blood.V86.6.2350.bloodjournal8662350
Imada K., Takaori-Kondo A., Akagi T., Shimotohno K., Sugamura K., Hattori T., Yamabe H., Okuma M., Uchiyama T.
Tumorigenicity of human T-cell leukemia virus type I-infected cell lines in severe combined immunodeficient mice and characterization of the cells proliferating in vivo.
Blood 86:2350-2357(1995)

PubMed=7832798; DOI=10.1006/bbrc.1995.1123
Kato N., Nakazawa T., Mizutani T., Shimotohno K.
Susceptibility of human T-lymphotropic virus type I infected cell line MT-2 to hepatitis C virus infection.
Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 206:863-869(1995)

PubMed=8957066; DOI=10.1111/j.1349-7006.1996.tb03112.x; PMCID=PMC5920998
Kawasaki N., Matsuo Y., Yoshino T., Yanai H., Oka T., Teramoto N., Liu C., Kondo E., Minowada J., Akagi T.
Metastatic potential of lymphoma/leukemia cell lines in SCID mice is closely related to expression of CD44.
Jpn. J. Cancer Res. 87:1070-1077(1996)

PubMed=9510473; DOI=10.1111/j.1349-7006.1998.tb00476.x; PMCID=PMC5921588
Hosoya N., Hangaishi A., Ogawa S., Miyagawa K., Mitani K., Yazaki Y., Hirai H.
Frameshift mutations of the hMSH6 gene in human leukemia cell lines.
Jpn. J. Cancer Res. 89:33-39(1998)

PubMed=12920029; DOI=10.1182/blood-2003-04-1043
Chung H.-K., Young H.A., Goon P.K.C., Heidecker G., Princler G.L., Shimozato O., Taylor G.P., Bangham C.R.M., Derse D.D.
Activation of interleukin-13 expression in T cells from HTLV-1-infected individuals and in chronically infected cell lines.
Blood 102:4130-4136(2003)

PubMed=15638862; DOI=10.1111/j.1365-2141.2004.05289.x
Hasegawa H., Yamada Y., Harasawa H., Tsuji T., Murata K., Sugahara K., Tsuruda K., Ikeda S., Imaizumi Y., Tomonaga M., Masuda M., Takasu N., Kamihira S.
Sensitivity of adult T-cell leukaemia lymphoma cells to tumour necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand.
Br. J. Haematol. 128:253-265(2005)

PubMed=16850164; DOI=10.1007/s10495-006-9235-4
Miura Y., Nishimura Y., Katsuyama H., Maeda M., Hayashi H., Dong M.-L., Hyodoh F., Tomita M., Matsuo Y., Uesaka A., Kuribayashi K., Nakano T., Kishimoto T., Otsuki T.
Involvement of IL-10 and Bcl-2 in resistance against an asbestos-induced apoptosis of T cells.
Apoptosis 11:1825-1835(2006)

PubMed=19220422; DOI=10.1111/j.1600-0609.2009.01211.x
Kamihira S., Terada C., Sasaki D., Yanagihara K., Tsukasaki K., Hasegawa H., Yamada Y.
Aberrant p53 protein expression and function in a panel of hematopoietic cell lines with different p53 mutations.
Eur. J. Haematol. 82:301-307(2009)

PubMed=22608188; DOI=10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.04.043
Maeda M., Yamamoto S., Chen Y., Kumagai-Takei N., Hayashi H., Matsuzaki H., Lee S., Hatayama T., Miyahara N., Katoh M., Hiratsuka J.-i., Nishimura Y., Otsuki T.
Resistance to asbestos-induced apoptosis with continuous exposure to crocidolite on a human T cell.
Sci. Total Environ. 429:174-182(2012)

PubMed=25544500; DOI=10.1038/cmi.2014.123; PMCID=PMC4711675
Hamano R., Wu X.-Q., Wang Y.-T., Oppenheim J.J., Chen X.
Characterization of MT-2 cells as a human regulatory T cell-like cell line.
Cell. Mol. Immunol. 12:780-782(2015)

PubMed=26940204; DOI=10.1007/s13577-016-0136-8
Hashikura Y., Umeki K., Umekita K., Nomura H., Yamamoto I., Hasegawa H., Yanagihara K., Okayama A.
The diversity of the structure and genomic integration sites of HTLV-1 provirus in MT-2 cell lines.
Hum. Cell 29:122-129(2016)

PubMed=28357668; DOI=10.1007/978-1-4939-6872-5_11
Raimondi V., Minuzzo S.A., Ciminale V., D'Agostino D.M.
STR profiling of HTLV-1-infected cell lines.
Methods Mol. Biol. 1582:143-154(2017)

PubMed=29892436; DOI=10.1098/rsos.172472; PMCID=PMC5990783
Shioda S., Kasai F., Watanabe K., Kawakami K., Ohtani A., Iemura M., Ozawa M., Arakawa A., Hirayama N., Kawaguchi E., Tano T., Miyata S., Satoh M., Shimizu N., Kohara A.
Screening for 15 pathogenic viruses in human cell lines registered at the JCRB Cell Bank: characterization of in vitro human cells by viral infection.
R. Soc. Open Sci. 5:172472-172472(2018)

PubMed=32187573; DOI=10.1016/j.envint.2020.105654
Yamamoto S., Lee S., Matsuzaki H., Kumagai-Takei N., Yoshitome K., Sada N., Shimizu Y., Ito T., Nishimura Y., Otsuki T.
Enhanced expression of nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase (NNT) and its role in a human T cell line continuously exposed to asbestos.
Environ. Int. 138:105654.1-105654.13(2020)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) BEI_Resources; ARP-237
ECACC; 08081401
ECACC; 93121518 - Discontinued
JCRB; JCRB1210
JCRB; NIHS0527 - Discontinued
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0007888
CLDB; cl3596
CLDB; cl3597
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO:0005492
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN03472437
Chemistry resources ChEMBL-Cells; CHEMBL3307558
ChEMBL-Targets; CHEMBL614184
PubChem_Cell_line; CVCL_2631
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54906935
Experimental variables resources EFO; EFO_0022393
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 919158
IARC_TP53; 27003
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update10-Sep-2024
Version number32