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Cellosaurus NPC-KT (CVCL_X204)

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Cell line name NPC-KT
Accession CVCL_X204
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: NPC-KT (RRID:CVCL_X204)
Comments Characteristics: Hybrid of an EBV-positive NPC cells from 74 year old Japanese female with Ad-AH cells.
Doubling time: 24 hours (PubMed=6088881).
Selected for resistance to: ChEBI; CHEBI_63486; 8-azaguanine.
Transformant: NCBI_TaxID; 10376; Epstein-Barr virus (EBV).
Omics: Transcriptome analysis by RNAseq.
Disease Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NCIt: C3871)
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (ORDO: Orphanet_150)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Parent: CVCL_X200 (Ad-AH)
Category Hybrid cell line
Publications

PubMed=6088881; DOI=10.1093/jnci/73.3.711
Takimoto T., Ogura H., Ohno S., Umeda R., Hatano M.
Tumorigenicity of nasopharyngeal carcinoma hybrid cell line.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 73:711-715(1984)

PubMed=6318711; DOI=10.1007/BF00454266
Takimoto T., Kamide M., Umeda R.
Establishment of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated nuclear antigen (EBNA)-positive nasopharyngeal carcinoma hybrid cell line (NPC-KT).
Arch. Otorhinolaryngol. 239:87-92(1984)

PubMed=3008992
Takimoto T., Sato H., Ogura H., Miyawaki T., Glaser R.
Superinfection of epithelial hybrid cells (D98/HR-1, NPC-KT, and A2L/AH) with Epstein-Barr virus and the relationship to the C3d receptor.
Cancer Res. 46:2541-2544(1986)

PubMed=24991015; DOI=10.1128/JVI.01457-14; PMCID=PMC4178894
Strong M.J., Baddoo M., Nanbo A., Xu M., Puetter A., Lin Z.
Comprehensive high-throughput RNA sequencing analysis reveals contamination of multiple nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell lines with HeLa cell genomes.
J. Virol. 88:10696-10704(2014)

Cross-references
Cell line databases/resources TOKU-E; 4071
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54930970
Entry history
Entry creation17-Jul-2014
Last entry update19-Dec-2024
Version number9