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Cellosaurus SK-MEL-8 (CVCL_6960)

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Cell line name SK-MEL-8
Synonyms SK-Mel-8; AD-Mel
Accession CVCL_6960
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: SK-MEL-8 (RRID:CVCL_6960)
Comments From: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; New York; USA.
Disease Melanoma (NCIt: C3224)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling 45Y
Category Cancer cell line
Publications

PubMed=978138; DOI=10.1084/jem.144.4.873; PMCID=PMC2190439
Shiku H., Takahashi T., Oettgen H.F., Old L.J.
Cell surface antigens of human malignant melanoma. II. Serological typing with immune adherence assays and definition of two new surface antigens.
J. Exp. Med. 144:873-881(1976)

PubMed=1067619; DOI=10.1073/pnas.73.9.3278; PMCID=PMC431008
Carey T.E., Takahashi T., Resnick-Silverman L.A., Oettgen H.F., Old L.J.
Cell surface antigens of human malignant melanoma: mixed hemadsorption assays for humoral immunity to cultured autologous melanoma cells.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 73:3278-3282(1976)

PubMed=327080; DOI=10.1093/jnci/59.1.221
Fogh J., Fogh J.M., Orfeo T.
One hundred and twenty-seven cultured human tumor cell lines producing tumors in nude mice.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 59:221-226(1977)

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)

DOI=10.1007/978-1-4615-7228-2_39
Houghton A.N., Oettgen H.F., Old L.J.
Malignant melanoma. Current status of the search for melanoma-specific antigens.
(In book chapter) Immunodermatology. Comprehensive Immunology, Vol 7; Safai B., Good R.A. (eds.); pp.557-576; Springer; Boston; USA (1981)

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

PubMed=22970293; DOI=10.1371/journal.pone.0044707; PMCID=PMC3435279
Zhao R.Y., Mifsud N.A., Xiao K., Chan K.-F., Oveissi S., Jackson H.M., Dimopoulos N., Guillaume P., Knights A.J., Lowen T., Robson N.C., Russell S.E., Scotet E., Davis I.D., Maraskovsky E., Cebon J.S., Luescher I.F., Chen W.-S.
A novel HLA-B18 restricted CD8+ T cell epitope is efficiently cross-presented by dendritic cells from soluble tumor antigen.
PLoS ONE 7:E44707-E44707(2012)

Cross-references
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54954320
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update21-Mar-2023
Version number16