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- Cell Line: SK-MM-2
- Synonyms:
- SK-MM-2
- SKMM-2
- SK-MM2
- SKMM2
- Culture Type: Cell line
- Keywords: Human Plasma Cell Leukemia Cell Line
- Description: Established from the peripheral blood of a 54-year-old Caucasian male patient with plasma cell leukemia (Igkappa) (refractory, terminal state)
- Origin:
- Cell line features:
- Cell Type: B-cell
- Morphology: Round single cells
- Growth mode: Suspension
- Life span: Infinite (continuous culture)
- Doubling time:
- ~100 hours (DSMZ)
- 60 hours (PubMed=2506399) (Cellosaurus)
- 85 hours (PubMed=25984343) (Cellosaurus)
- Karyotype: Human bimodal hypodiploid/hypotetraploid karyotype with 9% polyploidy
- Microsatellite instability: Stable
- Special features:-
- Product:-
- Soft agar colony formation assay:-
- Tumorigenicity:-
- Gene expression:-
- Sequence variations:
- TP53 (K132N mutation, Likely Oncogenic, Likely Loss-of-function)
- For more information, please visit
- https://depmap.org/portal/cell_line/ACH-000363?tab=mutations
- https://depmap.org/portal/cell_line/ACH-000363?tab=fusions
- Cell Type: B-cell
- Handling and maintenance:
- Biosafety level: BSL 1 (DSMZ) (It may differ in your country, follow the guidelines of your institute/country)
- Complete culture medium: RPMI 1640 + 20% heat-inactivated FBS
- Culture conditions:
- Temperature: 37°C incubator
- Atmosphere: 95% Air, 5% CO2
- Temperature: 37°C incubator
- Subculturing:
- Cryopreservation:
- Freezing medium: Complete growth medium + 20 % (v/v) FBS + 10 % (v/v) DMSO (DSMZ)
- Storage conditions: Vapor phase of liquid nitrogen
- Cell suspension (cell density): 5 x 106 cells/ml
- Volume per vial: 1 ml
- Freezing medium: Complete growth medium + 20 % (v/v) FBS + 10 % (v/v) DMSO (DSMZ)
- Applications:
- Immunology
- Cell Line Availability: The cell line can be obtained from the following sources.
- DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH: Product link
- References
- Images:
- SK-MM-2 cell line image link 1 (Source: DSMZ)
- SK-MM-2 cell line image link 2 (Source: DSMZ)
- SK-MM-2 cell line image link 3 (Source: DSMZ)
- SK-MM-2 cell line image link 4 (Source: DSMZ)
- Abbreviations
- BSL (Biosafety level)
- FBS (Fetal Bovine Serum)
- DMSO (Dimethyl sulfoxide)
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