Cross-contamination of a UROtsa stock with T24 cells--molecular comparison of different cell lines and stocks.

BACKGROUND: UROtsa is an authentic, immortalized human urothelial cell line that is used to study the effects of metals and other toxic substances, mostly in the context of bladder cancer carcinogenesis. Unusual properties on the molecular level of a provided UROtsa cell line stock prompted us to ve...

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Main Authors: Georg Johnen, Peter Rozynek, Yvonne von der Gathen, Oleksandr Bryk, Ricarda Zdrenka, Christian Johannes, Daniel G Weber, O Brien Igwilo-Okuefuna, Irina Raiko, Jörg Hippler, Thomas Brüning, Elke Dopp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3656924?pdf=render