KYSE-150

• Cat.No.
• CSC-C0423

• Description
• Established from the poorly differentiated esophageal squamous cell carcinoma resected from upper (cervical) esophagus of a 49-year-old Japanese woman after receiving radiotherapy (tumor was invading contiguous structures); described as carrying amplified oncogenes, c-erb-B (8x) and cyclin D1 (4x) and producing tumors in nude mice

• Recommended Medium
• 49%RPMI1640 + 49%Ham's F-12 + 2%h.i. FBS.

• Organism
• Human

• Morphology
• epitheloid cells growing as adherent monolayer

• Culture Properties
• monolayer

• Karyotype
• Human hypertriploid karyotype with 12% polyploidy - 70(68-75)<3n>XderX, -X, +1, -3, -4, -8, -9, +11, -14, -15, -16, -18, -21, +12mar (4xbisat), add(X)(q27), inv(1)(p34q32), del(1)(p32), del(1)(q11), del(7)(q32), del(8)(p21), i(9q), add(9)(q34), add(11)(p1

• Source
• esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

• Quality Control
• Mycoplasma: contamination was eliminated with BM-Cyclin (tiamulin & minocycline), then negative in DAPI, microbiological culture, RNA hybridization assays
  Immunology: cytokeratin +, cytokeratin-7 -, cytokeratin-8 +, cytokeratin-17 +, cytokeratin-18 +, cy

• Storage and Shipping
• Frozen with 70% medium, 20% FBS, 10% DMSO at about 1 x 10^6 cells/ampoule; ship in dry ice; store in liquid nitrogen