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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.
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U-937 Resource Report Resource Website 1000+ mentions Partially Contaminated Discontinued Discontinued Possibly Discontinued |
RRID:CVCL_0007 | Homo sapiens (Human) | Adult acute monocytic leukemia | Anecdotal: Have been flown in space on shuttle flight STS-76 and on Shenzhou-8 to study growth and cytoskeletal changes in microgravity (PubMed=10352142; DOI=10.1016/j.actaastro.2013.06.007)., Karyotypic information: Has lost chromosome Y., Characteristics: Can be induced to differentiate into macrophages by several factors such as phorbol ester (PMA) and 12-O-tetradecanoyl-13-phorbol acetate (TPA)., Population: Caucasian., Part of: LL-100 blood cancer cell line panel., Part of: Human Protein Atlas, Cell Atlas panel., Part of: Cancer Dependency Map project (DepMap) (includes Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia - CCLE)., Problematic cell line: Partially contaminated. Some ATCC stocks were cross-contaminated by K-562 initially (PubMed=7759961). The problem was corrected and subsequent stocks have been confirmed to carry only U-937.., Group: Space-flown cell line (cellonaut). |
PMID:178611 PMID:1083890 PMID:1571549 PMID:1913629 PMID:2140233 PMID:2243057 PMID:2985879 PMID:3159941 PMID:3874327 PMID:6091813 PMID:6582512 PMID:7759961 PMID:8300570 PMID:8547074 PMID:8558913 PMID:8558920 PMID:8643484 PMID:9371509 PMID:9510473 PMID:9685479 PMID:9738977 PMID:10352142 PMID:10676951 PMID:10739008 PMID:10966170 PMID:11226526 PMID:11416159 PMID:11701946 PMID:12393283 PMID:15637111 PMID:15843827 PMID:16311011 PMID:16337770 PMID:16408098 PMID:16957166 PMID:20801507 PMID:21269460 PMID:22460905 PMID:25485619 PMID:25877200 PMID:26589293 PMID:29787063 PMID:30285677 PMID:30629668 PMID:30894373 PMID:31068700 PMID:31160637 PMID:31978347 PMID:33317567 PMID:34707142 PMID:36982453 |
Cancer cell line | Male | U937, U 937 | BTO:BTO_0001412, CLO:CLO_0009450, CLO:CLO_0009465, EFO:EFO_0001257, MCCL:MCC:0000470, CLDB:cl4597, CLDB:cl4599, CLDB:cl4600, CLDB:cl4601, CLDB:cl4602, CLDB:cl4603, CLDB:cl4604, CLDB:cl4605, CLDB:cl4606, CLDB:cl4608, AddexBio:C0003005/72, ArrayExpress:E-MTAB-2706, ArrayExpress:E-MTAB-2770, ArrayExpress:E-MTAB-7721, ArrayExpress:E-MTAB-7722, ATCC:CRL-1593, ATCC:CRL-1593.2, BCRC:60435, BCRJ:0242, BioGRID_ORCS_Cell_line:154, BioSample:SAMN03472409, BioSample:SAMN03473173, BioSample:SAMN03473567, BioSample:SAMN10988180, cancercelllines:CVCL_0007, CCRID:1101HUM-PUMC000059, CCRID:3101HUMTCHu159, CCRID:4201HUM-CCTCC00080, CCTCC:GDC0080, Cell_Model_Passport:SIDM01195, ChEMBL-Cells:CHEMBL3308006, ChEMBL-Targets:CHEMBL612794, CLS:300368, Cosmic:787483, Cosmic:798666, Cosmic:821044, Cosmic:850382, Cosmic:852000, Cosmic:919123, Cosmic:922162, Cosmic:932770, Cosmic:947364, Cosmic:975307, Cosmic:991558, Cosmic:994178, Cosmic:999781, Cosmic:1012127, Cosmic:1019837, Cosmic:1067446, Cosmic:1070690, Cosmic:1078726, Cosmic:1082516, Cosmic:1086353, Cosmic:1089523, Cosmic:1107178, Cosmic:1127260, Cosmic:1150904, Cosmic:1176581, Cosmic:1181605, Cosmic:1191692, Cosmic:1465967, Cosmic:1523828, Cosmic:1524826, Cosmic:1582388, Cosmic:1601066, Cosmic:1604865, Cosmic:1995661, Cosmic:2301570, Cosmic:2361376, Cosmic:2750876, DepMap:ACH-000406, DSMZ:ACC-5, DSMZCellDive:ACC-5, ECACC:85011440, EGA:EGAS00001000610, EGA:EGAS00001002554, GEO:GSE66854, GEO:GSM2020, GEO:GSM236809, GEO:GSM236845, GEO:GSM482491, GEO:GSM743413, GEO:GSM887724, GEO:GSM888818, GEO:GSM1028244, GEO:GSM1028245, GEO:GSM1374975, GEO:GSM1670560, GEO:GSM7701385, GEO:GSM7701386, GEO:GSM7701402, GEO:GSM7701403, IARC_TP53:2199, ICLC:HTL94002, IPD-IMGT/HLA:11507, IZSLER:BS TCL 73, JCRB:IFO50038, JCRB:JCRB9021, KCB:KCB 200676YJ, KCLB:21593.1, LiGeA:CCLE_826, LINCS_HMS:50869, LINCS_LDP:LCL-1125, Lonza:135, MeSH:D020298, NCBI_Iran:C130, PharmacoDB:U937_1624_2019, PRIDE:PXD001521, PRIDE:PXD001522, PRIDE:PXD001523, Progenetix:CVCL_0007, PubChem_Cell_line:CVCL_0007, RCB:RCB1978, TKG:TKG 0279, TOKU-E:3382, Ubigene:YC-C021, Wikidata:Q7863610 |
CVCL_0007 | 2026-09-05 11:26:15 | 2953 | ||||
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U-87 MG-Luc2 Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions Misidentified |
RRID:CVCL_UR33 | Homo sapiens (Human) | Glioblastoma | Characteristics: Stably expresses firefly luciferase under the control of the human EF1a promoter (ATCC=HTB-14-LUC2)., Population: Caucasian., Problematic cell line: Misidentified. Parent cell line (U-87MG ATCC) is not the original glioblastoma cell line established in 1968 at the University of Uppsala.. | Cancer cell line | Male | ATCC:HTB-14-LUC2, cancercelllines:CVCL_UR33, Wikidata:Q98133707 |
cvcl_0022 | CVCL_UR33 | 2026-09-05 11:26:15 | 3 | |||||
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U-2 OS-Luc2 Resource Report Resource Website 10+ mentions |
RRID:CVCL_A4CF | Homo sapiens (Human) | Osteosarcoma | Characteristics: Stably expresses firefly luciferase under the control of the human EF1a promoter (ATCC=HTB-96-LUC2)., Population: Caucasian. | Cancer cell line | Female | ATCC:HTB-96-LUC2, Wikidata:Q105511285 |
cvcl_0042 | CVCL_A4CF | 2026-09-05 11:26:14 | 16 | |||||
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U-2020 Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
RRID:CVCL_D076 | Homo sapiens (Human) | Lung small cell carcinoma |
PMID:2983887 PMID:2990154 |
Cancer cell line | Female | U2020 | Wikidata:Q54973542 | CVCL_D076 | 2026-09-05 11:26:14 | 1 | |||||
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U-87MG ATCC IDH1 p.R132H Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions Misidentified |
RRID:CVCL_UE09 | Homo sapiens (Human) | Glioblastoma | Population: Caucasian., Problematic cell line: Misidentified. Parent cell line (U-87MG ATCC) is not the original glioblastoma cell line established in 1968 at the University of Uppsala.. | Cancer cell line | Male | IDH1 mutant-U-87 Isogenic Cell Line | ATCC:HTB-14IG, cancercelllines:CVCL_UE09, Wikidata:Q98133708 |
cvcl_0022 | CVCL_UE09 | 2026-09-05 11:26:15 | 2 | ||||
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U-373MG Uppsala Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
RRID:CVCL_2818 | Homo sapiens (Human) | Astrocytoma | Caution: This is the original U-373MG cell line established in 1973 at the University of Uppsala. The cell line distributed by most cell collections is a different cell line. |
PMID:1847665 PMID:2454731 PMID:3675803 PMID:4134536 PMID:4359449 PMID:4369403 PMID:10560660 PMID:19435942 PMID:27582061 |
Cancer cell line | Male | U-373 MG Uppsala, U-373 MG (Uppsala), U-373MG, U373 MG, U-373-MG, U-373 MG, U373-MG, U373MG, U373, 373 MG, 373MG | BioSample:SAMN03471311, ECACC:08061901, Wikidata:Q54973576 |
CVCL_2818 | 2026-09-05 11:26:15 | 5 | ||||
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U-1906 Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
RRID:CVCL_D075 | Homo sapiens (Human) | Lung small cell carcinoma |
PMID:2983887 PMID:2990154 PMID:9551745 |
Cancer cell line | Male | U1906 | Wikidata:Q54973522 | CVCL_D075 | 2026-09-05 11:26:14 | 1 | |||||
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U-87 MG-luc2 Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions Misidentified Discontinued |
RRID:CVCL_5J15 | Homo sapiens (Human) | Glioblastoma | Population: Caucasian., Problematic cell line: Misidentified. Parent cell line (U-87MG ATCC) is not the original glioblastoma cell line established in 1968 at the University of Uppsala.. | Cancer cell line | Male | U87MG-luc2 | cancercelllines:CVCL_5J15, Revvity/PerkinElmer:124577, Wikidata:Q54973601 |
cvcl_0022 | CVCL_5J15 | 2026-09-05 11:26:15 | 2 | ||||
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U-2940 Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
DSMZ Cat# ACC-634, RRID:CVCL_1897 | Homo sapiens (Human) | Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma | Donor information: Originally the patient was suffering from Hodgkin lymphoma., Characteristics: Genetically heterogeneous, consists of 2 subclones (PubMed=27566572)., Part of: MD Anderson Cell Lines Project., Part of: LL-100 blood cancer cell line panel., Part of: Cancer Dependency Map project (DepMap) (includes Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia - CCLE). |
PMID:16106419 PMID:27566572 PMID:28196595 PMID:29533902 PMID:31160637 |
Cancer cell line | Female | U2940 | DSMZ | ACC-634 | ArrayExpress:E-MTAB-7721, ArrayExpress:E-MTAB-7722, BioSample:SAMN03473453, cancercelllines:CVCL_1897, ChEMBL-Cells:CHEMBL4523523, ChEMBL-Targets:CHEMBL4523554, Cosmic:2437272, Cosmic:2479246, DepMap:ACH-001678, DSMZ:ACC-634, DSMZCellDive:ACC-634, GEO:GSM1374972, GEO:GSM1897963, Lonza:1539, Progenetix:CVCL_1897, PubChem_Cell_line:CVCL_1897, Wikidata:Q54973561 |
CVCL_1897 | 2026-09-05 11:26:14 | 3 | ||
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U-251MG IDH1 WT Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
RRID:CVCL_A5HR | Homo sapiens (Human) | Astrocytoma | Population: Caucasian. | PMID:33504762 | Cancer cell line | Male | U251(WT), U251WT | cancercelllines:CVCL_A5HR, MetaboLights:MTBLS1973, Wikidata:Q107117148 |
cvcl_0021 | CVCL_A5HR | 2026-09-05 11:26:14 | 2 | |||
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U-343MG Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
RRID:CVCL_S471 | Homo sapiens (Human) | Glioblastoma | Population: Caucasian. |
PMID:77569 PMID:1847665 PMID:2454731 PMID:3518877 PMID:3675803 PMID:4134536 PMID:4142792 PMID:4359449 PMID:4369403 PMID:6260907 PMID:10402232 PMID:10416987 PMID:11351043 PMID:21061448 PMID:21406405 PMID:22570425 PMID:25984343 PMID:26496030 PMID:27582061 PMID:33385022 |
Cancer cell line | Male | U-343 MG, U-343-MG, U343MG, U-343, U343, 343 MG, 343MG, 343 MG(9) | BTO:BTO_0006221, EFO:EFO_0022447, Cell_Model_Passport:SIDM01495, CLS:300365, Cosmic:849880, Cosmic:2367503, Cosmic:2491104, Cosmic:2516043, Cosmic:2701086, Wikidata:Q54973568 |
CVCL_S471 | 2026-09-05 11:26:14 | 6 | ||||
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U2OS DR-GFP Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
RRID:CVCL_B0A7 | Homo sapiens (Human) | Osteosarcoma | Characteristics: Can be used to monitor homologous recombination efficiency using the DR-GFP reporter (ATCC=CRL-3455)., Characteristics: Transfected with a DR-GFP reporter construct. The DR-GFP construct which contains a tandem repeat of two inactive genes coding for EGFP. After transfection with an expression vector coding for the I-SceI enzyme, recombination induced by the cleavage of the I-SceI site recreates a functional EGFP., Population: Caucasian. | Cancer cell line | Female | U-2 OS DRGFP | ATCC:CRL-3455, Wikidata:Q108821411 |
cvcl_0042 | CVCL_B0A7 | 2026-09-05 11:26:16 | 7 | ||||
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U14 Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
RRID:CVCL_9U56 | Mus musculus (Mouse) | Mouse cervical carcinoma | Cancer cell line | Female | CCRID:1101MOU-PUMC000238, CCRID:1101MOU-PUMC000311, Wikidata:Q54973624 |
CVCL_9U56 | 2026-09-05 11:26:16 | 7 | |||||||
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U266/velR Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
RRID:CVCL_T031 | Homo sapiens (Human) | Plasma cell myeloma | Characteristics: Produces IgE lambda (from parent cell line U266B1)., Population: Caucasian. | PMID:24286313 | Cancer cell line | Male | cancercelllines:CVCL_T031, Wikidata:Q54973633 |
cvcl_0566 | CVCL_T031 | 2026-09-05 11:26:16 | 2 | ||||
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U-CH2 Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
RRID:CVCL_4989 | Homo sapiens (Human) | Sacral chordoma | Population: Caucasian., Part of: COSMIC cell lines project., Part of: Cancer Dependency Map project (DepMap) (includes Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia - CCLE). |
PMID:21253487 PMID:26183925 PMID:27102572 PMID:27397505 PMID:28515451 PMID:28835717 PMID:30894373 PMID:35839778 |
Cancer cell line | Female | UCH-2, UCH2 | ATCC:CRL-3218, Cell_Model_Passport:SIDM01185, Cosmic:2663858, Cosmic-CLP:1503373, DepMap:ACH-002204, DSMZ:ACC-749, DSMZCellDive:ACC-749, GEO:GSM1670565, GEO:GSM1673847, GEO:GSM1673848, PharmacoDB:UCH2_1627_2019, PRIDE:PXD030304, Wikidata:Q54973617 |
CVCL_4989 | 2026-09-05 11:26:15 | 3 | ||||
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U-CH2 Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
ATCC Cat# CRL-3218, RRID:CVCL_4989 | Homo sapiens (Human) | Sacral chordoma | Population: Caucasian., Part of: COSMIC cell lines project., Part of: Cancer Dependency Map project (DepMap) (includes Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia - CCLE). |
PMID:21253487 PMID:26183925 PMID:27102572 PMID:27397505 PMID:28515451 PMID:28835717 PMID:30894373 PMID:35839778 |
Cancer cell line | Female | UCH-2, UCH2 | ATCC | CRL-3218 | ATCC:CRL-3218, Cell_Model_Passport:SIDM01185, Cosmic:2663858, Cosmic-CLP:1503373, DepMap:ACH-002204, DSMZ:ACC-749, DSMZCellDive:ACC-749, GEO:GSM1670565, GEO:GSM1673847, GEO:GSM1673848, PharmacoDB:UCH2_1627_2019, PRIDE:PXD030304, Wikidata:Q54973617 |
CVCL_4989 | 2026-09-05 11:26:15 | 3 | ||
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U266/ADM Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
RRID:CVCL_GZ72 | Homo sapiens (Human) | Plasma cell myeloma | Characteristics: Produces IgE lambda (from parent cell line U266B1)., Population: Caucasian. | PMID:26045737 | Cancer cell line | Male | cancercelllines:CVCL_GZ72, Wikidata:Q54973632 |
cvcl_0566 | CVCL_GZ72 | 2026-09-05 11:26:16 | 2 | ||||
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U2-OS Tet-On Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
RRID:CVCL_V335 | Homo sapiens (Human) | Osteosarcoma | Characteristics: Transfected with reverse tetracycline-controlled transactivator (rtTA), a fusion between a mutated version of E.coli TetR and the activating domain of HSV-1 VP16., Population: Caucasian. | Cancer cell line | Female | Wikidata:Q54973628 | cvcl_0042 | CVCL_V335 | 2026-09-05 11:26:16 | 2 | |||||
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U3082MG Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
RRID:CVCL_IR93 | Homo sapiens (Human) | Glioblastoma | Part of: Human Glioblastoma Cell Culture (HGCC) resource. |
PMID:26629530 PMID:27689322 PMID:28122246 |
Cancer cell line | Female | U3082-MG, U3082 | EFO:EFO_0022706, cancercelllines:CVCL_IR93, GEO:GSM1857603, GEO:GSM1857819, Progenetix:CVCL_IR93, Wikidata:Q54973723 |
CVCL_IR93 | 2026-09-05 11:26:18 | 2 | ||||
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U3008MG Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
RRID:CVCL_IR59 | Homo sapiens (Human) | Glioblastoma | Part of: Human Glioblastoma Cell Culture (HGCC) resource. |
PMID:26629530 PMID:27689322 PMID:28122246 |
Cancer cell line | Female | U3008-MG, U3008 | cancercelllines:CVCL_IR59, GEO:GSM1857570, GEO:GSM1857786, Progenetix:CVCL_IR59, Wikidata:Q54973676 |
CVCL_IR59 | 2026-09-05 11:26:17 | 1 |
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