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WM115

Cancer cell line, Homo sapiens. Melanoma. 32 papers.

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ConductScience Library. WM115. Cell lines, record CVCL_0040. Release cell-lines-2026-11-14-0.1.0, 14 Nov 2026. https://conductscience.org/library/cell-lines/CVCL_0040

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Cell line

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Name
WM115
Accession
CVCL_0040
RRID
RRID:CVCL_0040
Synonyms
WM-115, WM 115, WM115F, WM115-mel, WM115mel, WC00079
Species
Homo sapiens (Human)
Sex
Female
Age at sampling
55Y
Category
Cancer cell line
Diseases
Melanoma (NCIt C3224)
Derived from
Right anterior leg, skin (metastatic)
Entry created
2012-04-04
Entry updated
2025-08-14

Source Cellosaurus

Problems1

ProblemCellosaurus's note
Caution
The reported STR profile from Wistar of this cell line was changed at one point between February 2016 when we retrieved them and entered them in Cellosaurus and May 2018. The major changes were: CSF1PO: 11,12->12, D18S51: 17->17,21 and D8S1179: 8,13->13,15.

Source Cellosaurus

Papers32

1 more article gives this line's RRID in its Methods without naming the line nearby, so it is not listed.

PaperJournalYearHow we knowRetractedSource
The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) drives human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-II expression in human melanoma.J Exp Clin Cancer Res2026Its Methods give the RRID and name the linePubMed
Fatty acid uptake activates an AXL-CAV1-β-catenin axis to drive melanoma progression.Genes Dev2025Its Methods give the RRID and name the linePubMed
PRRX1 silencing is required for metastatic outgrowth in melanoma and is an independent prognostic of reduced survival in patients.Mol Oncol2024Its Methods give the RRID and name the linePubMed
PTEN Lipid Phosphatase Activity Suppresses Melanoma Formation by Opposing an AKT/mTOR/FRA1 Signaling Axis.Cancer Res2024Its Methods give the RRID and name the linePubMed
The DPY30-H3K4me3 Axis-Mediated PD-L1 Expression in Melanoma.J Inflamm Res2022Its Methods give the RRID and name the linePubMed
AP-1 transcription factor network explains diverse patterns of cellular plasticity in melanoma cells.Cell Rep2022Its Methods give the RRID and name the linePubMed
Pan-cancer proteomic map of 949 human cell lines.Cancer Cell2022Cellosaurus cites itPubMed
Deciphering the Functional Role of RIPK4 in Melanoma.Int J Mol Sci2021Its Methods give the RRID and name the linePubMed
JARID1-targeted histone H3 demethylase inhibitors exhibit anti-proliferative activity and overcome cisplatin resistance in canine oral melanoma cell lines.Vet Comp Oncol2021Its Methods give the RRID and name the linePubMed
Quantitative Proteomics of the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia.Cell2020Cellosaurus cites itPubMed

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Relatives10

RelationCell lineAccessionProblemSource
Derived from itWM115-MOCKCVCL_C3N6Cell lines
Derived from itWM115-RAGECVCL_C3N7Cell lines
From the same personWM165-1CVCL_L033Cell lines
From the same personWM165-2CVCL_RN55Cell lines
From the same personWM239ACVCL_6795Cell lines
From the same personWM239BCVCL_RN56Cell lines
From the same personWM266-1CVCL_RN57Cell lines
From the same personWM266-2CVCL_RN58Cell lines
From the same personWM266-3CVCL_RN59Cell lines
From the same personWM266-4CVCL_2765Cell lines

Cell banks5

Cell bankCatalog numberStatusSource
ATCCCRL-1675DiscontinuedCellosaurus
CoriellWC00079DiscontinuedCellosaurus
ECACC91061232DiscontinuedCellosaurus
IZSLERBS TCL 74Cellosaurus
RocklandWM115-01-0001Rockland

Data dates

The date of each source this release read.

Cellosaurus
2026-10-22
Cellosaurus
PubMed Central's articles
2026-11-12
PubMed Central's articles
Our copy of PubMed
2026-11-06
Our copy of PubMed

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  • PubMed Central's articlesTitles shown only for CC0, CC BY and public domain articles
  • NLM's PMC Article DatasetsCourtesy of NLM, which does not endorse this database
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  • CellosaurusCC BY 4.0. Cellosaurus's README: "we have chosen to apply the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license to Cellosaurus (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). This means that you are free to copy and redistribute Cellosaurus in any medium or format. You can remix, transform, and build upon Cellosaurus for any purpose, even commercially. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made." Copyright (c) CALIPHO group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. Read on 14 Nov 2026 at https://ftp.expasy.org/databases/cellosaurus/README
  • PubMed Central's articlesEach article's own license. Its words show only under CC0, CC BY or public domain
  • NLM's PMC Article DatasetsNLM's PMC Article Datasets on AWS, https://registry.opendata.aws/ncbi-pmc. Its terms: users "acknowledge NLM as the source of the data in a clear and conspicuous manner", do not use the PubMed Central wordmark or the PMC logo, do not "indicate or imply that NLM/NIH/HHS has endorsed" a product, and "only distribute data that are licensed for redistribution". Each article keeps its own license: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/about/copyright/
  • PubMedNLM's terms

Cellosaurus, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, https://www.cellosaurus.org, CC BY 4.0. Its problem notes are given in its own words.

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