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Cellosaurus is database indexing available cell lines from various collections: American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), Bioresource Collection and Research Center, Taiwan (BCRC), Banco de Células do Rio de Janeiro (BCRJ), CellBank Australia (CBA), Collection of Cell Lines in Veterinary Medicine (CCLV), Cell Lines Service (CLS), Coriell, Drosophila Genomics Resource Center (DGRC), Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH (DSMZ), European Bank for induced pluripotent Stem Cells (EBiSC), European Collection of Authenticated Cell Cultures (ECACC), Interlab Cell Line Collection (ICLC), Institute for Fermentation Osaka (IFO), Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna (IZSLER) biobank, Japanese Collection of Research Bioresources (JCRB) Cell Bank, Kunming Cell Bank of Type Culture Collection (KCB), Korean Cell Line Bank (KCLB), Millipore, National Cell Bank of Iran (NCBI_Iran), National Cancer Institute - Developmental Therapeutics Program (NCI-DTP), NINDS Human Cell and Data Repository (NHCDR), NIH AIDS Reagent Program (NIH-ARP), NISES, RIKEN Bioresource Center Cell Bank (RCB), Royan Stem Cell Bank (RSCB), Tick Cell Biobank (TCB), Tohoku University cell line catalog (TKG), and Ximbio.
https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_KU50
Organism: Cricetulus griseus (Chinese hamster)
Category: Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Proper citation: DiscoverX Cat# 95-1011C2, RRID:CVCL_KU50 Copy
https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_RU27
Organism: Cricetulus griseus (Chinese hamster)
Category: Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Proper citation: PerkinElmer Cat# ES-010-A, RRID:CVCL_RU27 Copy
https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_U862
Organism: Cricetulus griseus (Chinese hamster)
Category: Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Proper citation: RCB Cat# RCB1699, RRID:CVCL_U862 Copy
https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_U008
Organism: Cricetulus griseus (Chinese hamster)
Category: Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Comments: Characteristics: The target gene was integrated using the InSCREENeX SCREENflex system.
Proper citation: ECACC Cat# 10110201, RRID:CVCL_U008 Copy
https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_DE94
Organism: Cricetulus griseus (Chinese hamster)
Category: Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Proper citation: ECACC Cat# 15042905, RRID:CVCL_DE94 Copy
Discontinued
https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_6369
Organism: Mesocricetus auratus (Golden hamster)
Category: Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Comments: Group: Patented cell line.
Proper citation: ATCC Cat# CRL-13001, RRID:CVCL_6369 Copy
Discontinued Discontinued
https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_1914
Organism: Mesocricetus auratus (Golden hamster)
Category: Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Comments: Miscellaneous: Not distributed parent cell line., Part of: Naval Biosciences Laboratory (NBL) collection (transferred to ATCC in 1982)., Group: Space-flown cell line (cellonaut).
Proper citation: Ubigene Cat# YC-A049, RRID:CVCL_1914 Copy
https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_UR37
Organism: Mesocricetus auratus (Golden hamster)
Category: Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Proper citation: ATCC Cat# CRL-3423, RRID:CVCL_UR37 Copy
https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_RW96
Organism: Mesocricetus auratus (Golden hamster)
Category: Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Comments: Caution: This cell line is protected by IP rights of the inventors. The CCLV of the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Federal Research Center for Virus Diseases of Animals is the sole approved distributor is CCLV (personal communication of Finke, Stefan)., Characteristics: Expression of the T7 RNA polymerase gene is under control of the cytomegalovirus promoter (PubMed=9847328).
Proper citation: CCLV Cat# CCLV-RIE 0583, RRID:CVCL_RW96 Copy
https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_Z090
Organism: Bombyx mori (Silk moth)
Category: Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Comments: Characteristics: Used in a transient luciferase assay system for measuring extrachromosomal homologous recombination (HR). Expresses a disrupted luciferase gene which can become enzymatically active through HR (PubMed=14680819)., Group: Insect cell line.
Proper citation: RCB Cat# RCB2126, RRID:CVCL_Z090 Copy
https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_D5GM
Organism: Nicotiana tabacum (Common tobacco)
Category: Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Comments: Anecdotal: This cell line was generated at the Japan Tobacco and Salt Monopoly Public Corporation. In 1982 Toshiyuki Nagata brought it with him to the USA and left it there after renaming it to NT-1 in order to distribute it clandestinely because he was not allowed officially to give the BY-2 cell line to others. He called it NT-1 as it could both mean Nicotiana tabacum or Nagata, Toshiyuki (PubMed=37642778)., Characteristics: Used as model for the electrochemical sensing of beta-glucuronidase activity of transgenic cell lines (PubMed=29982119)., Characteristics: Tested for the production of viral proteins (PubMed=14680934; PubMed=12601177; PubMed=16187337)., Characteristics: Tested for the production of synthetic proteins (PubMed=15818563)., Characteristics: Tested for the production of bacterial proteins (PubMed=14688094; PubMed=22928883)., Characteristics: Tested for the production of animal proteins (PubMed=7766897)., Characteristics: Produces low levels of nicotine (PubMed=18567891)., Characteristics: Can be used to prepare protoplasts (PubMed=17947977)., Group: Plant cell line.
Proper citation: DSMZ Cat# PC-1181, RRID:CVCL_D5GM Copy
https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_0188
Organism: Mus musculus (Mouse)
Category: Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Comments: Characteristics: Capable, upon starvation, of differentiating into contractile myotubes that express muscle-specific proteins., Part of: ENCODE project mouse cell lines.
Proper citation: Ubigene Cat# YC-A010, RRID:CVCL_0188 Copy
https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_6581
Organism: Mus musculus (Mouse)
Category: Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Proper citation: ATCC Cat# CRL-2581, RRID:CVCL_6581 Copy
https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_0F01
Organism: Mus musculus (Mouse)
Category: Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Proper citation: ATCC Cat# CRL-2582, RRID:CVCL_0F01 Copy
https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_5G35
Organism: Bos taurus (Bovine)
Category: Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Comments: Discontinued: Cedarlane Cellutions Systems; Catalog number CLU551.
Proper citation: ABM Cat# T0844, RRID:CVCL_5G35 Copy
https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_D5GN
Organism: Nicotiana tabacum (Common tobacco)
Category: Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Comments: Characteristics: Used to study actin filament-based processes (PubMed=16262709; PubMed=16672254; PubMed=18637163)., Group: Plant cell line.
Proper citation: RIKEN_BRC_EPD Cat# rpc00040, RRID:CVCL_D5GN Copy
https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_B3N5
Organism: Aedes albopictus (Asian tiger mosquito)
Category: Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Comments: Characteristics: Modified using a Minos mediated integration cassette (MiMIC) to deliver a recombination-mediated cassette (RMCE) acceptor, to add a docking site for recombination via the bacteriophage FC31 integrase., Group: Insect cell line.
Proper citation: DGRC Cat# 336, RRID:CVCL_B3N5 Copy
https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_KV42
Organism: Cricetulus griseus (Chinese hamster)
Category: Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Proper citation: DiscoverX Cat# 95-0151C2, RRID:CVCL_KV42 Copy
https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_KU89
Organism: Cricetulus griseus (Chinese hamster)
Category: Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Proper citation: DiscoverX Cat# 95-0068C2, RRID:CVCL_KU89 Copy
https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_KV55
Organism: Cricetulus griseus (Chinese hamster)
Category: Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Proper citation: DiscoverX Cat# 95-0099C2, RRID:CVCL_KV55 Copy
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