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A-549 (human, Caucasian, lung, carcinoma)


SPECIES: human, Caucasian
TISSUE/ORGAN: lung
TUMOR: carcinoma

DSMZ catalog code: ACC 107
Morphology: epithelial cells, growing adherently as monolayer
Susceptibility to viruses: adenovirus
Description: human lung carcinoma established from an explanted lung tumor which was removed from a 58-year-old Caucasian man in 1972; cells were described to induce tumors in athmyic mice and to synthesize lecithin confirmed as human with IEF of MDH, NP
Viruses: ELISA: reverse transcriptase negative; PCR: EBV-, HBV-, HCV-, HHV-8-, HIV-, HTLV-I/II-
Depositor: Dr. J. Wehland, GBF, Braunschweig, Germany
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Availability in cell line catalogues: ATCC: CCL 185

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