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Cellosaurus Efk3B (CVCL_GZ34)

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Cell line name Efk3B
Synonyms EFK3B; Efk-3B; Efk3 clone 3B; Eptesicus fuscus kidney 3B
Accession CVCL_GZ34
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: Efk3B (RRID:CVCL_GZ34)
Comments Group: Bat cell line.
Characteristics: Can be used to cultivate viruses from the Coronaviridae, Filoviridae, Herpesviridae, Paramyxoviridae and Rhabdoviridae.
Characteristics: Not susceptible to SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection (COVID-19) (PubMed=32511316).
Doubling time: 24 hours (Kerafast).
Transformant: Myotis polyomavirus large T-antigen (MyPVTag).
Derived from sampling site: Kidney.
Species of origin Eptesicus fuscus (Big brown bat) (Vespertilio fuscus) (NCBI Taxonomy: 29078)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling Age unspecified
Category Transformed cell line
Web pages http://usask.technologypublisher.com/tech/Eptesicus_fuscus_(Big_Brown_Bat)_kidney_immortalized_cell_line
Publications

PubMed=27639955; DOI=10.1016/j.jviromet.2016.09.008
Banerjee A., Rapin N., Miller M., Griebel P., Zhou Y., Munster V.J., Misra V.
Generation and characterization of Eptesicus fuscus (Big brown bat) kidney cell lines immortalized using the Myotis polyomavirus large T-antigen.
J. Virol. Methods 237:166-173(2016)

PubMed=32511316; DOI=10.1101/2020.03.02.972935
Harcourt J.L., Tamin A., Lu X.-Y., Kamili S., Kumar-Sakthivel S., Murray J., Queen K., Tao Y., Paden C.R., Zhang J., Li Y., Uehara A., Wang H.-B., Goldsmith C., Bullock H.A., Wang L.-J., Whitaker B., Lynch B., Gautam R., Schindewolf C., Lokugamage K.G., Scharton D., Plante J.A., Mirchandani D., Widen S.G., Narayanan K., Makino S., Ksiazek T.G., Plante K.S., Weaver S.C., Lindstrom S., Tong S.-X., Menachery V.D., Thornburg N.J.
Isolation and characterization of SARS-CoV-2 from the first US COVID-19 patient.
bioRxiv 2020:972935-972935(2020)

Cross-references
Cell line collections Kerafast; ESA001
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54832050
Entry history
Entry creation26-Sep-2016
Last entry update20-May-2021
Version number7