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Cell Biology
ATCC® Number: CCL-243™    Price: $256.00
Designations: K-562
Depositors:  HT Holden
Biosafety Level: 1
Shipped: frozen
Medium & Serum: See Propagation
Growth Properties: suspension
Organism: Homo sapiens (human)
Morphology: lymphoblast
Source: Organ: bone marrow
Disease: chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML)
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Applications: transfection host (Nucleofection technology from Lonza)
Tumorigenic: Yes
Antigen Expression: CD7 (25%)
DNA Profile (STR): Amelogenin: X
CSF1PO: 9,10
D13S317: 8
D16S539: 11,12
D5S818: 11,12
D7S820: 9,11
THO1: 9.3
TPOX: 8,9
vWA: 16
Cytogenetic Analysis: The stemline chromosome number is triploid with the 2S component occurring at 4.2%. Fifteen markers (M1 and M(15)) occurred in nearly all S metaphases. Spontaneous non-specific dicentrics occurred, but rarely. Unstable markers were also rarely seen. The X was disomic, and N9 was nullisomic.
Isoenzymes: AK-1, 1
ES-D, 1
G6PD, B
GLO-I, 2
Me-2, 0
PGM1, 0
PGM3, 1
Age: 53 years
Gender: female
Comments: The continuous cell line K-562 was established by Lozzio and Lozzio from the pleural effusion of a 53-year-old female with chronic myelogenous leukemia in terminal blast crises. [22609]
The cell population has been characterized as highly undifferentiated and of the granulocytic series. [26059]
Studies conducted by Anderson, et al., on the surface membrane properties led to the conclusion that the K-562 was a human erythroleukemia line. [26060]
The K-562 cell line has attained widespread use as a highly sensitive in vitro target for the natural killer assay. [1101] [48829] [48830]
See Pross, et al. for a detailed analysis of the in vitro assay of NK cells including the mathematics of quantitation of NK cell activity. [48833]
K-562 blasts are multipotential, hematopoietic malignant cells that spontaneously differentiate into recognizable progenitors of the erythrocytic, granulocytic and monocytic series. [26061]
The effect of inducers on sublines derived from the original K-562 cell line have been reviewed by Koeffler and Golde. [867]
Cultures from the ATCCstock have been shown to exhibit this sensitivity for assessing human natural killer activity.
Karyological studies on various K-562 sublines have been classified into three groups (A,B,C) by Dimery, et al. [26063]
The strain obtained by the ATCCmost closely resembles the B population. Occurrence of the Philadelphia chromosome, however, was of much lower frequency; none detected in 15 metaphases examined.
The line is EBNA negative.
Propagation: ATCC complete growth medium: The base medium for this cell line is ATCC-formulated Iscove's Modified Dulbecco's Medium, Catalog No. 30-2005. To make the complete growth medium, add the following components to the base medium: fetal bovine serum to a final concentration of 10%.
Atmosphere: air, 95%; carbon dioxide (CO2), 5%
Temperature: 37.0°C
Subculturing: Protocol: Cultures can be maintained by the addition or replacement of fresh medium. Start new cultures at 1 X 10 exp5 viable cells/ml. Subculture at 1 X 10 exp6 cells/ml.
Medium Renewal: Every 2 to 3 days
Preservation: Freeze medium: Complete growth medium 95%; DMSO, 5%
Storage temperature: liquid nitrogen vapor temperature
Related Products: Recommended medium (without the additional supplements or serum described under ATCC Medium):ATCC 30-2005
recommended serum:ATCC 30-2020
purified DNA:ATCC CCL-243D
purified RNA:ATCC CCL-243R
References: 867: Koeffler HP, Golde DW. Human myeloid leukemia cell lines: a review. Blood 56: 344-350, 1980. PubMed: 6996765
1101: Ortaldo JR, et al. Specificity of natural cytotoxic reactivity of normal human lymphocytes against a myeloid leukemia cell line. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 59: 77-82, 1977. PubMed: 69036
22609: Lozzio CB, Lozzio BB. Human chronic myelogenous leukemia cell-line with positive Philadelphia chromosome. Blood 45: 321-334, 1975. PubMed: 163658
26059: Lozzio BB, Lozzio CB. Properties and usefulness of the original K-562 human myelogenous leukemia cell line. Leuk. Res. 3: 363-370, 1979. PubMed: 95026
26060: Andersson LC, et al. K562--a human erythroleukemic cell line. Int. J. Cancer 23: 143-147, 1979. PubMed: 367973
26061: Lozzio BB, et al. A multipotential leukemia cell line (K-562) of human origin. Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. 166: 546-550, 1981. PubMed: 7194480
26063: Dimery IW, et al. Variation amongst K562 cell cultures. Exp. Hematol. 11: 601-610, 1983. PubMed: 6576909
32357: Chan YJ, et al. Two distinct upstream regulatory domains containing multicopy cellular transcription factor binding sites provide basal repression and inducible enhancer characteristics to the immediate-early IES (US3) promoter from human cytomegalovirus. J. Virol. 70: 5312-5328, 1996. PubMed: 8764042
32396: Kolanus W, et al. alphaLbeta2 integrin/LFA-1 binding to ICAM-1 induced by cytohesin-1 a cytoplasmic regulatory molecule. Cell 86: 233-242, 1996. PubMed: 8706128
32446: Gan W, Rhoads RE. Internal initiation of translation directed by the 5'-untranslated region of the mRNA for eIF4G, a factor involved in the picornavirus-induced switch from cap-dependent to internal initiation. J. Biol. Chem. 271: 623-626, 1996. PubMed: 8557663
32561: Tiffany HL, et al. Enhanced expression of the eosinophil-derived neurotoin ribonuclease (RNS2) gene requires interaction between the promoter and intron. J. Biol. Chem. 271: 12387-12393, 1996. PubMed: 8647842
32704: Chan YJ, et al. Synergistic interactions between overlapping binding sites for the serum response factor and ELK-1 proteins mediate both basal enhancement and phorbol ester responsiveness of primate cytomegalovirus. J. Virol. 70: 8590-8605, 1996. PubMed: 8970984
33044: Nauseel WM, et al. Effect of the R569W missense mutation on the biosynthesis of myeloperoxidase. J. Biol. Chem. 271: 9546-9549, 1996. PubMed: 8621627
33174: Grune T, et al. Degradation of oxidized proteins in K562 human hematopoietic cells by proteasome. J. Biol. Chem. 271: 15504-15509, 1996. PubMed: 8663134
48829: Jondal M, Pross H. Surface markers on human b and t lymphocytes. VI. Cytotoxicity against cell lines as a functional marker for lymphocyte subpopulations. Int. J. Cancer 15: 596-605, 1975. PubMed: 806545
48830: West WH, et al. Natural cytotoxic reactivity of human lymphocytes against a myeloid cell line: characterization of effector cells. J. Immunol. 118: 355-361, 1977. PubMed: 299761
48833: Pross HF, et al. Spontaneous human lymphocyte-mediated cytotoxicity against tumor target cells. IX. The quantitation of natural killer cell activity. J. Clin. Immunol. 1: 51-63, 1981. PubMed: 7334070
61237: Chen TR. Modal karyotype of human leukemia cell line, K562 (ATCCCCL 243). Cancer Genet. Cytogenet. 17: 55-60, 1985. PubMed: 3857109
61327: Wu SQ, et al. Extensive amplification of bcr/abl fusion genes clustered on three marker chromosomes in human leukemic cell line K-56. Leukemia 9: 858-862, 1995. PubMed: 7769849
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