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Cellosaurus EB4 (CVCL_W738)

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Cell line name EB4
Synonyms EB-4; Epstein-Barr-4
Accession CVCL_W738
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: EB4 (RRID:CVCL_W738)
Comments Population: Caucasian; British.
Doubling time: 24 hours (PubMed=5922251).
Transformant: NCBI_TaxID; 10376; Epstein-Barr virus (EBV).
Cell type: B-cell; CL=CL_0000236.
Disease EBV-related Burkitt lymphoma (NCIt: C27694)
Burkitt lymphoma (ORDO: Orphanet_543)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling 15Y
Category Cancer cell line
Publications

PubMed=5922251; DOI=10.1038/bjc.1966.58; PMCID=PMC2007999
Epstein M.A., Barr Y.M., Achong B.G.
Preliminary observations on new lymphoblast strains (EB4, EB5) from Burkitt tumours in a British and a Ugandan patient.
Br. J. Cancer 20:475-479(1966)

PubMed=6074691; DOI=10.1038/bjc.1967.79; PMCID=PMC2008180
Bishun N.P., Sutton R.N.P.
Cytogenetic and other studies on the EB4 line of Burkitt tumour cells.
Br. J. Cancer 21:675-678(1967)

PubMed=7316467; DOI=10.1111/j.1469-1809.1980.tb00953.x
Povey S., Jeremiah S., Arthur E., Steel M., Klein G.
Differences in genetic stability between human cell lines from patients with and without lymphoreticular malignancy.
Ann. Hum. Genet. 44:119-133(1980)

PubMed=2998993
Steel C.M., Morten J.E.N., Foster E.
The cytogenetics of human B lymphoid malignancy: studies in Burkitt's lymphoma and Epstein-Barr virus-transformed lymphoblastoid cell lines.
IARC Sci. Publ. 60:265-292(1985)

PubMed=3923440; DOI=10.1093/nar/13.8.2931; PMCID=PMC341205
Anderson M.L.M., Brown L., McKenzie E., Kellow J.E., Young B.D.
Cloning and sequence analysis of an Ig lambda light chain mRNA expressed in the Burkitt's lymphoma cell line EB4.
Nucleic Acids Res. 13:2931-2941(1985)

Cross-references
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54831751
Entry history
Entry creation17-Jul-2014
Last entry update02-May-2024
Version number12