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Cellosaurus BCIRL-HZ-MG8 (CVCL_ZF01)

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Cell line name BCIRL-HZ-MG8
Synonyms BCIRL-HzMG8; BCIRL-HZMG8; MG8
Accession CVCL_ZF01
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: BCIRL-HZ-MG8 (RRID:CVCL_ZF01)
Comments Group: Insect cell line.
Virology: Persistently infected by Providence virus (PubMed=12642108; PubMed=20702652).
Derived from site: In situ; Midgut; UBERON=UBERON_0001045.
Species of origin Helicoverpa zea (Corn earworm moth) (Heliothis zea) (NCBI Taxonomy: 7113)
Sex of cell Sex unspecified
Category Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Publications

PubMed=12642108; DOI=10.1016/S0042-6822(02)00052-1
Pringle F.M., Johnson K.N., Goodman C.L., McIntosh A.H., Ball L.A.
Providence virus: a new member of the Tetraviridae that infects cultured insect cells.
Virology 306:359-370(2003)

PubMed=15038778; DOI=10.1290/1543-706X(2003)039<0353:AOISRT>2.0.CO;2
Grasela J.J., McIntosh A.H.
Application of inter-simple sequence repeats to insect cell lines: identification at the clonal and tissue-specific level.
In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. Anim. 39:353-363(2003)

PubMed=20702652; DOI=10.1099/vir.0.023796-0
Walter C.T., Pringle F.M., Nakayinga R., de Felipe P., Ryan M.D., Ball L.A., Dorrington R.A.
Genome organization and translation products of Providence virus: insight into a unique tetravirus.
J. Gen. Virol. 91:2826-2835(2010)

Cross-references
Cell line databases/resources ICLDB; bcirl-hzmg8
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q98125550
Entry history
Entry creation02-Jul-2020
Last entry update29-Jun-2023
Version number6