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Karyotype
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45, X, -Y, dup (5), -8, +9, -20, -22, +mar1, +mar2
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Derivation
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The HBE4-E6/E7 (formerly NBE4-E6/E7) cell line was derived from normal bronchial epithelium taken from a man undergoing a left upper lobectomy for a poorly differentiated (T2 N0) adenocarcinoma. Cells from the primary explant in their first passage were transfected with the p1321 plasmid encoding the E6 and E7 genes of Human Papilloma virus type 16 (HPV 16) under the control of the human beta actin promotor.
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Comments
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These sequences are known to bind to and inactivate endogenous p53 and Rb proteins respectively.
Southern blot analysis shows that stable integration of the transfected genes occurred.
The cell line resembles morphologically the basal cells of the normal human bronchial epithelium, and is not tumorigenic in athymic nude mice.
The cells are able to form tubules when grown in a basement membrane like matrix, and they retain the ability to undergo terminal squamous differentiation in response to phorbol esters or upon reaching confluence.
Cells are non-viable in DMSO and should be frozen in culture Medium with 10% glycerol.
Original authentication testing at ATCC by isoenzymology indicated that this was a human cell line. Recent additional speciation using a mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I (CO1) assay has shown that this cell line is cross-contaminated with bovine cells. Additional more sensitive PCR assays of the original token lot have also indicated a low level of bovine cross-contamination in that material as well.
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