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Cellosaurus C16 (CVCL_2322)

Cell line name C16
Accession CVCL_2322
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: C16 (RRID:CVCL_2322)
Comments Problematic cell line: Contaminated. Shown to be a HeLa derivative (PubMed=20143388). Originally thought to be a clone of MRC-5.
Registration: International Cell Line Authentication Committee, Register of Misidentified Cell Lines; ICLAC-00296.
Population: African American.
Transformant: NCBI_TaxID; 333761; Human papillomavirus type 18 (HPV18).
Derived from site: In situ; Uterus, cervix; UBERON=UBERON_0000002.
Disease Human papillomavirus-related cervical adenocarcinoma (NCIt: C27677)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Parent: CVCL_0030 (HeLa)
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling 30Y6M
Category Cancer cell line
Web pages https://iclac.org/wp-content/uploads/Cross-Contaminations_v12_distribution.xlsx
Publications

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)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) ECACC; 84121902
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0002096
CLDB; cl557
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN03151669
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54807864
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update05-Oct-2023
Version number21