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Cellosaurus KAT-4 (CVCL_6304)

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Cell line name KAT-4
Synonyms KAT 4; KAT4
Accession CVCL_6304
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: KAT-4 (RRID:CVCL_6304)
Comments Problematic cell line: Contaminated. Shown to be a HT-29 derivative (PubMed=18713817; PubMed=20143388; PubMed=21868764). Originally thought to originate from a thyroid gland anaplastic carcinoma.
Registration: International Cell Line Authentication Committee, Register of Misidentified Cell Lines; ICLAC-00222.
Population: Caucasian.
Omics: Transcriptome analysis by microarray.
Derived from site: In situ; Colon; UBERON=UBERON_0001155.
Sequence variations
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:583; APC; Simple; p.Glu853Ter (c.2557G>T); ClinVar=VCV001071632; Zygosity=Heterozygous (from parent cell line).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:583; APC; Simple; p.Thr1556Asnfs*3 (c.4666dupA) (c.4666_4667insA); ClinVar=VCV000428112; Zygosity=Heterozygous (from parent cell line).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:1097; BRAF; Simple; p.Val600Glu (c.1799T>A); ClinVar=VCV000013961; Zygosity=Heterozygous (from parent cell line).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:8975; PIK3CA; Simple; p.Pro449Thr (c.1345C>A); ClinVar=VCV001333250; Zygosity=Heterozygous (from parent cell line).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:6770; SMAD4; Simple; p.Gln311Ter (c.931C>T); ClinVar=VCV000230663; Zygosity=Homozygous (from parent cell line).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:11998; TP53; Simple; p.Arg273His (c.818G>A); ClinVar=VCV000012366; Zygosity=Homozygous (PubMed=14522906).
Disease Colon adenocarcinoma (NCIt: C4349)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Parent: CVCL_0320 (HT-29)
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling 44Y
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): PubMed=17465858; PubMed=18713817; PubMed=21868764

Markers:
AmelogeninX
CSF1PO11,12
D3S135815,17
D5S81811,12
D7S8208,10,12 (PubMed=21868764)
10 (PubMed=17465858; PubMed=18713817)
D8S117910 (PubMed=17465858)
10,16 (PubMed=18713817)
D13S31711 (PubMed=17465858; PubMed=18713817)
11,13 (PubMed=21868764)
D16S5399,11,12
D18S5113
D21S1130
FGA20,22
TH016,7
TPOX8,9,11
vWA16,17,18,19 (PubMed=21868764)
17,19 (PubMed=17465858; PubMed=18713817)

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Web pages https://iclac.org/wp-content/uploads/Cross-Contaminations_v13_distribution.xlsx
Publications

PubMed=12481943; DOI=10.1089/105072502760339343
Husmark J., Heldin N.-E., Nilsson M.
Follicular growth of a thyroid carcinoma cell line (KAT-4) with abnormal E-cadherin and impaired epithelial barrier.
Thyroid 12:781-790(2002)

PubMed=14522906
Frasca F., Vella V., Aloisi A., Mandarino A., Mazzon E., Vigneri R., Vigneri P.
p73 tumor-suppressor activity is impaired in human thyroid cancer.
Cancer Res. 63:5829-5837(2003)

PubMed=17465858; DOI=10.1089/thy.2006.0246
Lee J.-J., Foukakis T., Hashemi J., Grimelius L., Heldin N.-E., Wallin G., Rudduck C., Lui W.-O., Hoog A., Larsson C.
Molecular cytogenetic profiles of novel and established human anaplastic thyroid carcinoma models.
Thyroid 17:289-301(2007)

PubMed=17804723; DOI=10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-4026
van Staveren W.C.G., Weiss-Solis D.Y., Delys L., Duprez L., Andry G., Franc B., Thomas G., Libert F., Dumont J.-E., Detours V., Maenhaut C.
Human thyroid tumor cell lines derived from different tumor types present a common dedifferentiated phenotype.
Cancer Res. 67:8113-8120(2007)

PubMed=18713817; DOI=10.1210/jc.2008-1102; PMCID=PMC2582569
Schweppe R.E., Klopper J.P., Korch C.T., Pugazhenthi U., Benezra M., Knauf J.A., Fagin J.A., Marlow L.A., Copland J.A. 3rd, Smallridge R.C., Haugen B.R.
Deoxyribonucleic acid profiling analysis of 40 human thyroid cancer cell lines reveals cross-contamination resulting in cell line redundancy and misidentification.
J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 93:4331-4341(2008)

PubMed=20143388; DOI=10.1002/ijc.25242
Capes-Davis A., Theodosopoulos G., Atkin I., Drexler H.G., Kohara A., MacLeod R.A.F., Masters J.R.W., Nakamura Y., Reid Y.A., Reddel R.R., Freshney R.I.
Check your cultures! A list of cross-contaminated or misidentified cell lines.
Int. J. Cancer 127:1-8(2010)

PubMed=21868764; DOI=10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-11-0690; PMCID=PMC3229662
Zhao M., Sano D., Pickering C.R., Jasser S.A., Henderson Y.C., Clayman G.L., Sturgis E.M., Ow T.J., Lotan R., Carey T.E., Sacks P.G., Grandis J.R., Sidransky D., Heldin N.-E., Myers J.N.
Assembly and initial characterization of a panel of 85 genomically validated cell lines from diverse head and neck tumor sites.
Clin. Cancer Res. 17:7248-7264(2011)

Cross-references
Cell line databases/resources cancercelllines; CVCL_6304
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN03151790
Chemistry resources ChEMBL-Cells; CHEMBL3307845
ChEMBL-Targets; CHEMBL614008
PubChem_Cell_line; CVCL_6304
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54899532
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 886548
Cosmic; 891253
Cosmic; 1068626
Cosmic; 1162839
Cosmic; 2050372
IARC_TP53; 21624
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update19-Dec-2024
Version number31