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Cellosaurus U-178MG (CVCL_A758)

Cell line name U-178MG
Synonyms U-178-MG; U-178 MG; U178-MG; U 178 MG; U178MG; MG 178; U-178; 178 MG; 178MG; 178 MG(5)
Accession CVCL_A758
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: U-178MG (RRID:CVCL_A758)
Comments Part of: Cancer Dependency Map project (DepMap) (includes Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia - CCLE).
Population: Caucasian.
Doubling time: 45 hours (PubMed=25984343).
Omics: Deep exome analysis.
Omics: shRNA library screening.
Sequence variations
  • Mutation; HGNC; 5382; IDH1; None_reported; -; Zygosity=- (PubMed=19435942).
  • Mutation; HGNC; 9588; PTEN; Simple; p.Pro248Thrfs*5 (c.741dupA) (c.741_742insA); ClinVar=VCV000142259; Zygosity=Homozygous (PubMed=10560660; DepMap).
  • Mutation; HGNC; 11998; TP53; Simple; p.Glu271Lys (c.811G>A); ClinVar=VCV000406566; Zygosity=Heterozygous (DepMap).
HLA typing Source: PubMed=77569
Class I
HLA-AA*01,02
HLA-BB*07,12
Genome ancestry Source: PubMed=30894373

Origin% genome
African2.94
Native American0
East Asian, North4.06
East Asian, South0
South Asian0
European, North69.5
European, South23.49
Disease Astrocytoma (NCIt: C60781)
Astrocytoma (ORDO: Orphanet_94)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling 56Y
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): PubMed=22570425; PubMed=27582061

Markers:
AmelogeninX,Y
CSF1PO10,12
D2S133814,15
D3S135817
D5S81812,13
D7S8208,10 (PubMed=27582061)
10 (PubMed=22570425)
D8S117913,14
D13S31710,11 (PubMed=27582061)
11 (PubMed=22570425)
D16S53910,13
D18S5114,15
D19S43314,15
D21S1128,30
FGA22,26
Penta D7,12
Penta E7,12
TH017
TPOX8,11
vWA18,19

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Publications

PubMed=4134536; DOI=10.1002/ijc.2910120215
Westermark B.
The deficient density-dependent growth control of human malignant glioma cells and virus-transformed glia-like cells in culture.
Int. J. Cancer 12:438-451(1973)

PubMed=4139097; DOI=10.1007/BF00295491
Mark J., Ponten J., Westermark B.
G-band analyses of an established cell line of a human malignant glioma.
Humangenetik 22:323-326(1974)

PubMed=4369403; DOI=10.1002/1097-0142(197408)34:2<274::AID-CNCR2820340209>3.0.CO;2-4
Wahlstrom T., Linder E., Saksela E., Westermark B.
Tumor-specific membrane antigens in established cell lines from gliomas.
Cancer 34:274-279(1974)

DOI=10.1007/978-1-4757-1647-4_7
Ponten J.
Neoplastic human glia cells in culture.
(In) Human tumor cells in vitro; Fogh J. (eds.); pp.175-206; Springer; New York (1975)

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)

PubMed=77569; DOI=10.1111/j.1399-0039.1978.tb01259.x
Espmark J.A., Ahlqvist-Roth L., Sarne L., Persson A.
Tissue typing of cells in culture. III. HLA antigens of established human cell lines. Attempts at typing by the mixed hemadsorption technique.
Tissue Antigens 11:279-286(1978)

PubMed=450131; DOI=10.1038/279797a0
Day R.S. III, Ziolkowski C.H.J.
Human brain tumour cell strains with deficient host-cell reactivation of N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine-damaged adenovirus 5.
Nature 279:797-799(1979)

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

PubMed=2454731
Nister M., Libermann T.A., Betsholtz C., Pettersson M., Claesson-Welsh L., Heldin C.-H., Schlessinger J., Westermark B.
Expression of messenger RNAs for platelet-derived growth factor and transforming growth factor-alpha and their receptors in human malignant glioma cell lines.
Cancer Res. 48:3910-3918(1988)

PubMed=1847665
Bongcam-Rudloff E., Nister M., Betsholtz C., Wang J.-L., Stenman G., Huebner K., Croce C.M., Westermark B.
Human glial fibrillary acidic protein: complementary DNA cloning, chromosome localization, and messenger RNA expression in human glioma cell lines of various phenotypes.
Cancer Res. 51:1553-1560(1991)

DOI=10.1016/B978-0-12-333530-2.50005-8
Nister M., Westermark B.
Human glioma cell lines.
(In) Atlas of human tumor cell lines; Hay R.J., Park J.-G., Gazdar A.F. (eds.); pp.17-42; Academic Press; New York (1994)

DOI=10.1007/0-306-46861-1_11
Ali-Osman F.
Brain tumors.
(In) Human cell culture. Vol. 2. Cancer Cell Lines part 2; Masters J.R.W., Palsson B.O. (eds.); pp.167-184; Kluwer Academic Publishers; New York (1999)

PubMed=10416987; DOI=10.1111/j.1750-3639.1999.tb00536.x
Ishii N., Maier D., Merlo A., Tada M., Sawamura Y., Diserens A.-C., Van Meir E.G.
Frequent co-alterations of TP53, p16/CDKN2A, p14ARF, PTEN tumor suppressor genes in human glioma cell lines.
Brain Pathol. 9:469-479(1999)

PubMed=10560660; DOI=10.1097/00005072-199911000-00007
Schmidt E.E., Ichimura K., Goike H.M., Moshref A., Liu L., Collins V.P.
Mutational profile of the PTEN gene in primary human astrocytic tumors and cultivated xenografts.
J. Neuropathol. Exp. Neurol. 58:1170-1183(1999)

PubMed=19435942; DOI=10.1215/15228517-2009-025
Ichimura K., Pearson D.M., Kocialkowski S., Backlund L.M., Chan R., Jones D.T.W., Collins V.P.
IDH1 mutations are present in the majority of common adult gliomas but rare in primary glioblastomas.
Neuro-oncol. 11:341-347(2009)

PubMed=22570425; DOI=10.1093/neuonc/nos072
Bady P., Diserens A.-C., Castella V., Kalt S., Heinimann K., Hamou M.-F., Delorenzi M., Hegi M.E.
DNA fingerprinting of glioma cell lines and considerations on similarity measurements.
Neuro-oncol. 14:701-711(2012)

PubMed=25984343; DOI=10.1038/sdata.2014.35
Cowley G.S., Weir B.A., Vazquez F., Tamayo P., Scott J.A., Rusin S., East-Seletsky A., Ali L.D., Gerath W.F.J., Pantel S.E., Lizotte P.H., Jiang G.-Z., Hsiao J., Tsherniak A., Dwinell E., Aoyama S., Okamoto M., Harrington W., Gelfand E.T., Green T.M., Tomko M.J., Gopal S., Wong T.C., Li H.-B., Howell S., Stransky N., Liefeld T., Jang D., Bistline J., Meyers B.H., Armstrong S.A., Anderson K.C., Stegmaier K., Reich M., Pellman D., Boehm J.S., Mesirov J.P., Golub T.R., Root D.E., Hahn W.C.
Parallel genome-scale loss of function screens in 216 cancer cell lines for the identification of context-specific genetic dependencies.
Sci. Data 1:140035-140035(2014)

PubMed=27582061; DOI=10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf6853
Allen M., Bjerke M., Edlund H., Nelander S., Westermark B.
Origin of the U87MG glioma cell line: good news and bad news.
Sci. Transl. Med. 8:354re3.1-354re3.4(2016)

PubMed=30894373; DOI=10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-18-2747
Dutil J., Chen Z.-H., Monteiro A.N.A., Teer J.K., Eschrich S.A.
An interactive resource to probe genetic diversity and estimated ancestry in cancer cell lines.
Cancer Res. 79:1263-1273(2019)

PubMed=31068700; DOI=10.1038/s41586-019-1186-3
Ghandi M., Huang F.W., Jane-Valbuena J., Kryukov G.V., Lo C.C., McDonald E.R. III, Barretina J.G., Gelfand E.T., Bielski C.M., Li H.-X., Hu K., Andreev-Drakhlin A.Y., Kim J., Hess J.M., Haas B.J., Aguet F., Weir B.A., Rothberg M.V., Paolella B.R., Lawrence M.S., Akbani R., Lu Y.-L., Tiv H.L., Gokhale P.C., de Weck A., Mansour A.A., Oh C., Shih J., Hadi K., Rosen Y., Bistline J., Venkatesan K., Reddy A., Sonkin D., Liu M., Lehar J., Korn J.M., Porter D.A., Jones M.D., Golji J., Caponigro G., Taylor J.E., Dunning C.M., Creech A.L., Warren A.C., McFarland J.M., Zamanighomi M., Kauffmann A., Stransky N., Imielinski M., Maruvka Y.E., Cherniack A.D., Tsherniak A., Vazquez F., Jaffe J.D., Lane A.A., Weinstock D.M., Johannessen C.M., Morrissey M.P., Stegmeier F., Schlegel R., Hahn W.C., Getz G., Mills G.B., Boehm J.S., Golub T.R., Garraway L.A., Sellers W.R.
Next-generation characterization of the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia.
Nature 569:503-508(2019)

Cross-references
Cell line databases/resources cancercelllines; CVCL_A758
Cell_Model_Passport; SIDM01431
DepMap; ACH-000208
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN10988405
CRISP screens repositories BioGRID_ORCS_Cell_line; 692
Chemistry resources PharmacoDB; U178_1618_2019
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54973519
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 849851
Cosmic; 849879
Cosmic; 1610740
Cosmic; 2516041
Progenetix; CVCL_A758
Entry history
Entry creation06-Jun-2012
Last entry update30-Jan-2024
Version number25