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Cellosaurus BrCA 5 (CVCL_D280)

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Cell line name BrCA 5
Synonyms BrCa 5; BrCA5
Accession CVCL_D280
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: BrCA 5 (RRID:CVCL_D280)
Comments Problematic cell line: Contaminated. Shown to be a HeLa derivative (PubMed=557237; PubMed=6451928; PubMed=20143388). Originally thought to originate from a ductal breast carcinoma.
Registration: International Cell Line Authentication Committee, Register of Misidentified Cell Lines; ICLAC-00016.
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=557237; DOI=10.1126/science.557237
Nelson-Rees W.A., Flandermeyer R.R.
Inter- and intraspecies contamination of human breast tumor cell lines HBC and BrCa5 and other cell cultures.
Science 195:1343-1344(1977)

PubMed=6451928; DOI=10.1126/science.6451928
Nelson-Rees W.A., Daniels D.W., Flandermeyer R.R.
Cross-contamination of cells in culture.
Science 212:446-452(1981)

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
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN03151667
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54798201
Entry history
Entry creation22-Oct-2012
Last entry update05-Oct-2023
Version number20