Cell Line: A-498

CELL LINE ORIGIN
OrganismHuman (Homo sapiens), 52 years old female
Source/TissueKidney
Disease
Carcinoma
Year of origin1973
CELL LINE FEATURES
MorphologyEpithelial-like
Cell type?
Growth modeAdherent, Monolayer
Doubling time?
Life spanInfinite (continuous culture)
Transformed?
TumorigenicYes, in nude mice
Drug resistance?
Products?
KaryotypeHypertriploid
  
GENE EXPRESSION
  
APPLICATIONS
 3D cell culture
Cancer research
High-throughput screening
Toxicology
CULTURE MAINTENANCE AND STORAGE
Culture conditions and handling
Biosafety Level1 REF (It may differ in your country, follow the guidelines of your institute/country)
Plating efficiency?
Temperature37°C
AtmosphereHumidified incubator, 95% air + 5% CO2
Base mediumMEM (with Earle’s salts)
Complete culture mediumMEM (with Earle’s salts) + 10% FBS
Medium RenewalTwice per week
Subculturing procedure
Harvesting timeSubconfluent culture
Split methodTrypsin or Trypsin/EDTA
Split ratio1:3 to 1:8
Seeding density 
Split frequency 
Cryopreservation
Cryomedium

Complete culture medium + 5% DMSO
OR

Culture medium + 20% FBS * + 10% DMSO (* One can increase FBS up to 50%)

Storage conditions
Liquid nitrogen vapor phase
AVAILABILITY / SOURCE

American Type Culture Collection (ATCC)

Product page link

Public Health England Culture Collections

 

Sigma-Aldrich

 

ThermoFisher Scientific

Product page link

DSMZ

Product page link
Remarks 
Related cell lines 

 

References

Was this post helpful?

Author: admin

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *