Description
SK-MEL-2 is one of a series of melanoma cell lines established from patient-derived tumor samples. This cell line expresses wildtype B-Raf and mutant N-Ras (Q61R).
Source
This cell line was established in 1972 from a metastatic site on the thigh of a 60-year-old Caucasian male with malignant melanoma.
Inventors
- Lloyd J. Old, MD, former William E. Snee Chair in Cancer Immunology, Memorial Sloan Kettering; former Director, New York Branch, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
- Germain Trempe, formerly at Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering
Key References
- Fogh J et al. (1977) One hundred and twenty-seven cultured human tumor cell lines producing tumors in nude mice. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 59: 221-226 (PubMed ID: 327080)
- Xing F et al. (2012) Concurrent loss of the PTEN and RB1 tumor suppressors attenuates RAF dependence in melanomas harboring (V600E) BRAF. Oncogene 31(4):446-457 (PubMed ID: 21725359)
Licensing Information
This cell line may be licensed nonexclusively for research or commercial purposes.
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For non-licensing requests from academic-research institutions: Contact Frances Weis-Garcia, PhD, Associate Laboratory Member/Head, Antibody & Bioresource Core Facility, MSK, 646-888-2354, weisgarf@mskcc.org.